[awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards 12/18/07

[Teresa Giacomini]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Jesse Silver wrote:
>   
>> Today, reading back James' suggestion gets me really excited. I think we 
>> may have one hell of a program here. The money quote: "problem statement 
>> framed around a business proposition". Really a great way of framing an 
>> innovation contest.
>>     
>
> I agree. Could be very cool. Also, I re-read the original Sun press 
> release for the contest and it says that "Beginning in mid-January 2008, 
> Sun and the six open source communities will announce details on how 
> developers can participate in the individual programs." So, I'm assuming 
> from that language that Sun will issue another corporate press release 
> on behalf of the six communities. Is that a fair assumption? If so, when 
> that occurs, we should distribute another announcement on 
> opensolaris-announce and ping some other lists as well so people know 
> how to get involved.
>
> Jim
>   
Yep.  That is my understanding.  We'll need to have our website with the 
details etc up and running so that there is a landing page etc.  Once we 
get through this definition phase, we'll need to focus on getting ready 
for the announcement, then submissions, then review of submissions, then 
awards....