Call for Scholarships (CfS)

[TejasAP]

Here is the draft for the Scholarship form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1L8wOp912JVIP3STbsjEgDIqTSbE4pvPnEGYSWe-8aCY/edit

Please provide suggestions for questions you would like revised/included.

[jinalfoflia]

Thank you @TejasAP for the form!

Here are a couple of suggestions from my side:

Would you require a scholarship?

I'm unsure of having this as a question as this form is primarily meant for one to express interest in scholarship. Would defer to others on this though

cc: @maning @govvin @geohacker @rasagy @tridip1931

[govvin]

How about asking whether they need a full, or partial scholarship?

[TejasAP]

@govvin The second question addresses your concern. It has been phrased as 'complete' and 'partial' financial support. Would it read better and easier if I replace 'financial support' with 'scholarship'?

[govvin]

Yes. I've always thought of it as a 'grant', but financial support work well, too.

[rasagy]

Some thoughts:

Which of the following plans would you prefer:

Unless we explain what these plans are, I don’t think it helps to ask this question. Why not merge this with the next question on participation dependent on scholarship:

Does your decision to participate depend on the scholarship?

• Yes, I can not participate if I don’t get complete support
• Yes, but I will participate even if I get partial support
• No, I can participate even if I don’t get any support

This could just be part of the first page.

What do you think?

[govvin]

Which of the following plans would you prefer: *

Only make this question visible if they answer yes in the previous question. Otherwise those who answer no in the previous question is forced to answer this.

[TejasAP]

Thanks for the comments, everyone. I have updated the form to reflect the comments better. Please let me know if we need any more changes to be made before the form is made public today.

[jinalfoflia]

Here is the draft of the blog post -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sqmu_JqEC6w-hwhMvafCMZ5hEzcO5TPGtx80qo_-Bqk/edit?usp=sharing

Would love to hear your feedback on this.

[jinalfoflia]

Thanks for the edits @TejasAP @geohacker, have scheduled the blog post to go out tomorrow morning 10 am, here is the final post - https://medium.com/state-of-the-map-asia/scholarships-362b82c62ac

[geohacker]

We closed call for scholarships and are currently reviewing. @jinalfoflia will reach out to each applicant and announce the status.