[ogb-discuss] 2 year Anniversary Contributor Awards

[Stephen Lau]

I'd like to form a committee to coordinate the contributor awards.  The
OGB shouldn't need to be involved in this other than appointing the
committee.  We have enough on our plates already, and this occasion
doesn't involve governance - so let's let the community run with it.

I'm not sure what the exact wording is, since my order of The Standard
Code of Parliamentary Proceedings has not yet arrived; but here goes:

I move to form a committee to coordinate the contributor awards.

Please record my vote as in favour of this motion.

cheers,
steve

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:45:36PM +1200, 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?
> 
> Glynn
> 
> [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-June/003086.html
> [2] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2006-June/date.html
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