[advocacy-discuss] Community Innovation Awards

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 12 déc. 07 à 07:40, Jim Grisanzio a écrit :

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


+1 to the request !

Nicolas

>
>
> 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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