[advocacy-discuss] Community Innovation Awards

[Jim Grisanzio]

Thanks, Teresa. +1 to the request for setting up a list.

Jim



Teresa Giacomini wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We've been discussing the Innovation Award program announced last week.  We've come 
> up with a starting point for a broader discussion and we'd like to request an Advocacy 
> CG mailing list -- awards-program at opensolaris.org -- so we can manage the program there
> and keep track of our progress over on the Genunix. 
> 
> We'd like your participation to define the details of the program.  Things like the 
> definition of entries, the number of individual prizes, the payout amount, the method 
> of judging entries, the criteria on which the entries will be judged, the method of 
> submission, recruiting judges and more.
> 
> Award Entries will fall into two distinct programs with a total of $175,000 in prize 
> awards. The first program will focus on undergraduate student research and will 
> have a total proposed purse of $75,000.  The second program will likely focus on 
> contributions in these four categories with a proposed distribution of the remaining 
> $100,000:
> 
> - Device Drivers - $25,000
> - Applications and Packaging - $25,000
> - Documentation - $25,000
> - Wildcard - To be defined by the project - $25,000
> 
> All eligible contributions will be considered for an award and the distribution of the 
> funds may vary based on the contributions received.
> 
> We'll have open discussions and conference calls.  Participants are expected to attend 
> calls on a weekly basis at a minimum, and more likely two or three times per week between 
> now and mid-January when the program is announced.  After the program announcement, the 
> team will meet regularly to monitor and manage the award program.
> 
> Come join us!
> 
> T
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