<div dir="ltr"><div>Michael, our planning for the AGM and closing is on the wiki:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2017">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2017</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions after reviewing this page please reply.</div><div><br></div><div>This discussion of awards is a slightly separate goal of the board - to do a better job of celebrating members of our community. We had a few more ideas beyond additional awards, but the key point - as a volunteer organization - is to show productive examples of volunteering as an encouragement to others. Frankly the Sol Katz award is counter productive in this - as all the recipients are so darn impressive it produces a feeling of "I do not have time for that" :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 June 2017 at 05:50, Michael Terner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgt@appgeo.com" target="_blank">mgt@appgeo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Just a quick note from Boston on some of these topics:</div><div class="gmail_default"><ol><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">YES, we would be pleased to have the Sol Katz awarded during our closing plenary (also, is there a place where nominations for consideration can be added? We have a local idea.)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">YES, GeoCat has mentioned their intent to do this in our sponsorship discussions and we will support them presenting it at closing Plenary. We will reach out to them to confirm.</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Thanks for giving us the expected head-count for the AGM meeting. We will get you a room of that size. We are open minded to having the GeoForAll awards presented where ever they fit best. I have added Andy Anderson from our Academic Committee onto this thread and both he and Charlie should be able to comment on the plans for evaluating and judging the academically submitted papers and posters. My understanding is there <i>is</i> a plan for that.</font></li></ol><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Thanks again and let us know how we can help...</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">MT</font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Helena Mitasova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jody,<div><br></div><div> I see - I thought you were talking about establishing new awards while you probably had in mind existing awards. Currently the FOSS4G2017 program in relation to AGM and awards is rather confusing for me and it is different from what we have here<div><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2017" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/An<wbr>nual_General_Meeting_2017</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>the program lists awards as part of AGM while our wiki shows awards as part of closing ceremony.</div><div><br></div><div>In my opinion at least the Sol Katz award should be at the closing ceremony where everybody is present and there are no other parallel sessions - this should be indicated in the program grid.</div><div><br></div><div>Other awards that we had in the past are: </div><div><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Developer Award funded and delivered by GeoCat representative - do we have a confirmation from GeoCat that this will happen this year? Do they want it as part of closing ceremony or would they be OK with AGM?: (have a slide to cover finding awardee on screen)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Student Awards - GeoForAll: (have a slide to cover finding awardee on screen) - as I understand it this should be for the best student presentation/paper and best student poster - two total. This could be done at AGM. Do we have volunteers in the academic committee to evaluate the papers and posters, select the awardee and prepare the award itself? </li></ul><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, given that AGM is now scheduled as one of parallel sessions we definitely don't need a room with 350 seats - I doubt that there will be more than 100 people present, some speakers for the committees and projects may actually have a conflict with their presentations but we can deal with that (I will send a separate email about the AGM)</div><span class="m_-7566797188833613430HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Helena</div></font></span><div><div class="m_-7566797188833613430h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We initially penciled in a slot in the AGM for this (see email May 30) but did not follow up with specifics (saying we would talk about it later.)<div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:53 PM Helena Mitasova <<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jodi,<div><br></div><div>I think this would be best started at the f2f meeting in Boston, identify volunteers willing/interested to handle the awards - most organizations have an awards committee for this and have the committee work on the process. Such committee can then handle all awards except for Sol Katz which has already a well established process and committee.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that the current board has too many open items on its agenda and upcoming elections that there isn't enough time to add new awards to Boston event and handle them properly. </div><div><br></div><div>This is just my suggestion, other may have different opinion on this,</div><div><br></div><div>Helena</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">And let me know if this should be on <a href="mailto:discuss@osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@osgeo.org</a>, thought I would start with the board first :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-7566797188833613430m_2168400744519163972m_-3411930504489469858m_-1884939802620742506m_-3631006807151571134m_103397564406962674m_-743465782582973981gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 June 2017 at 10:20, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am reminded, with today's sol katz nominations, that we talked about setting up more awards to better acknowledge our community members (internal community building as it were, focusing on recognizing those that are hitting our goals as an organization).<div><br></div><div>GetCat has sponsored a "innovative developer" award. I still think there is opportunity here to look at some of our other goals like "open standards".</div><div><br></div><div>I think we could also use an "outreach" or "advocacy" award for those promoting our ideas to new audiences.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally a "leadership award" or even better a "new leadership" award for those inspiring individuals he motivate us all to do better.</div><div><br></div><div>I understand that several aspects mentioned above go into the Sol Katz award, however I view the Sol Katz award as one for service. Looking at the impressive list prior recipients it comes across as a life time achievement award - and not the best tool for community building.</div><div><br></div><div>Please take a moment to review and think about the above, and perhaps review our goals.</div><span class="m_-7566797188833613430m_2168400744519163972m_-3411930504489469858m_-1884939802620742506m_-3631006807151571134m_103397564406962674HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><div class="m_-7566797188833613430m_2168400744519163972m_-3411930504489469858m_-1884939802620742506m_-3631006807151571134m_103397564406962674m_-743465782582973981m_7363119849539775925gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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