Safe Software Grant Program for Students, Instructors, Grads and Non-Profits
Rules are different for each group, but are quite generous. Students get four month non-commercial licenses for FME Desktop which can be renewed as long as they are students. Those who have graduated, and were in the student grant program, get a 180 day license that can be used commercially for a new employer.
Roll Your Own Summer of Maps
Azavea announced the start of work for this year's Summer of Maps fellows:
Azavea, an award winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company announces the start of its fifth Summer of Maps (http://summerofmaps.com/). Inspired by the Google Summer of Code, Azavea Summer of Maps is a program that offers $5,000 stipends to student GIS analysts to perform pro bono geospatial data analysis projects for non-profit organizations over a three-month period in the summer of 2015.Did you want to try to support this sort of program at your organization or suggest it via your school? You can! Azavea CEO Robert Cheetham is telling his story as part of the Esri Education GIS Conference plenary Saturday (Saturday, 18 Jul 2015, 10:15am - 12:00pm Location: Marina - Salon D/E.) You'll want to hear it. Cheetham shares details on how he runs his company and how he thinks about education is in this article from last year.
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