[ogb-discuss] 2 year Anniversary Contributor Awards

[Al Hopper]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Glynn Foster wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> It looks like there might be some budget to be able to do the contributor awards
> [1] again this year for the projects 2nd birthday celebrations, and Sara's
> looking for some help from the OGB with this.
>
> Having had a rough read through the archive on cab-discuss last year [2], the
> main points seem to be the following -
>
> 	o From the day that Sara posted the announcement, there was about a
>           week to nominate and select 20 winners.
> 	o The CAB were responsible for selecting 20 winners, with no official
>           selection criteria provided.
> 	o There was wide confusion over who should be eligible - eg. excluding
>           Sun, OGB and marketing due to conflicts of interest.
> 	o In the end, everyone on nomination list got sent something, along with
>           all those people who nominated someone.
>
> I'm certainly not opposed to doing the contributor awards again, though I think
> any repeat will obviously have to provide some stronger rules about it, and some
> better selection criteria for the winners.
>
> I'm also wondering if there are better ways to do this - for example, selecting
> particular awards 'Above and Beyond', 'Technical Excellence', 'Teamwork' and
> getting nominations for those rather than the free for all. Another way would be
> to form a committee to elect the awards without the nomination step - The
> O'Reilly Open Source Awards seem to be a good example of this.
>
>
> Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Suggestion: use the poll.opensolaris.org system to "decide" the winners
based on published criteria.  Have a separate "poll" for each category, if
there are multiple categories.  The eligible "voters" can be limited (or
not) to any set or subset you desire - even limited to the OGB - or some
decision making body formed by the OGB.

Regards,

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
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