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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>In case anyone is interested….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Flora Sohee Kang [mailto:ossawards@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 04, 2014 3:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> Flora Sohee Kang<br><b>Subject:</b> $30,000 USD open source software competition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>Dear Professor,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>My name is Flora Sohee Kang. I am in charge of attracting participants to the Korean government's Open Source Software Competition. This is the 8<sup>th</sup> annual event. A total of $30,000 will be awarded to winners in the international division of the competition this year.</span><span style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>It would be our honor to have your students as participants.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:black'>International participants are exclusively allowed to submit any open source software developed within one year, even if they received a prize from another competition with it. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:black'>In addition, projects over one year old will be accepted by our judging panel, if it has been significantly improved recently. There is no limit for the number of team members.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:black'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:black'>To date there have been only eight entries this year, increasing the odds of your students winning a cash prize.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>Please visit our website </span><a href="http://www.ossaward.org/">www.ossaward.org</a><span style='color:black'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>Our registration deadline is </span><span style='color:red'>August 17<sup>th</sup></span><span style='color:black'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The final submission deadline is October 26<sup>th</sup>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>I hope you will encourage your students to participate. I am quite sure that this will be a great opportunity for them. Every team that submits its completed project will get an official certificate issued by NIPA of Korea. They have only to submit project documents, source code and a demo video in English, or provide the project URL including these items. We will wire the award money to the winners. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>If you have any questions or need more information, please contact me at </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:ossawards@gmail.com"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ossawards@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style='color:black'> .</span><span style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Your help is greatly appreciated.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>OSS World Challenge 2014 Secretariat</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'>Flora Sohee Kang</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>