[awards-program] Reminder: Meeting Wednesday, 2/20, 4pm PT

[Derek Cicero]

Alta Elstad wrote:
> meeting Wednesday, February 20, 4pm Pacific Time
> 
> Dial-in Info:
> -------------
> 866-651-9314
> 865-525-0765 x44404
> p/c 1234403
> 
> ASAP: Please send your comments on Teresa's previous email.
> 
> Teresa told us Friday that the OpenSolaris web site team is not able to provide 
> a web application for entry and submission until the end of March. Since we are 
> committed to providing this capability by March 1, we need to come up with a 
> different way to handle this.

To be clear the issue is not March 1st. There won't be a web application 
at all.

I can call into the meting to provide more detail.

Derek

> 
> What other teams are doing:
> 
> Glassfish: Submit contest project in email. No separate contest registration or 
> entry as far as I can tell.
> 
> OpenJDK: Send a plain text proposal in email. Send completed projects in email.
> 
> OpenOffice: Submit contest project in email. No separate contest registration or 
> entry as far as I can tell.
> 
> OpenPARC: Submit contest project in email. No separate contest registration or 
> entry as far as I can tell.
> 
> NetBeans is the only community that has an online submission form.
> http://www.netbeans.org/grant/grant-submission-form.html
> The NetBeans community is calling their program a grant, not a contest. So what 
> participants are submitting is a proposal, not a finished project. All finalist 
> projects must be worked on in an open community project, so there is no process 
> that I can see to "submit" the final project. Proposals are due the first week 
> of March, grant winners are announced April 1, and grant money is paid on August 
> 4 to people who have completed their proposed projects. A month later, the best 
> of the completed projects can receive bonus awards. The NetBeans program has 
> characteristics of both a contest and a grant: The NetBeans grants are the same 
> for everyone, not based on a budget, they are paid after the work is done, they 
> are paid only if the work is done. The most grant-like characteristic is that 
> they tell you before you do any more work than the proposal that you will 
> receive the grant if you do the proposed work.
> 
> I had expressed concern that the completed projects for the OpenSolaris contest 
> would be too large to email, even when compressed. Four other communities appear 
> to be unconcerned about this.
> 
> AGENDA FOR TOMORROW:
> 
> 1. Logistics - how to submit entries (proposals) and especially completed 
> projects. Email? Do we offer a backup method such as ftp? Where?
> 
> 2. Grants - If we give money directly to students, how do we build a 
> relationship with the school and the professor? Can we expect the work to be 
> done before we give the student any money? If we give the money in August, how 
> much of the work do we expect to be completed at that time? All of it? Most of 
> it? Just getting started?
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Derek Cicero
Program Manager
Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division