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<p>Hi Nyall,</p>
<p>Thanks for raising this. We can discuss it at our next meeting.</p>
<p>In the QGIS.ORG charter we have the concepts of an "honorary member" and an "honorary PSC member". Maybe this can be re-used for such a "community award"?</p>
<p>I'd have a hard time picking the person that deserves such an award the most - though. There are several community members (incl. devs) who contribute an awful lot. But that wouldn't be an obstacle for such an award ...</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2017-05-29 01:44, Nyall Dawson wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Hi PSC,<br /><br /> I'd like to raise an idea which has recently been on my mind: I'd love<br /> to see us launch some type of annual "QGIS Community member award".<br /> The QGIS project is only successful today because of the tireless<br /> efforts of the QGIS community - and the contributions made by some<br /> community members have been totally crucial to us achieving this<br /> success. I'd love to see us have some way of formally acknowledging<br /> these community members who've gone "above and beyond expectations"<br /> with their contributions to QGIS.<br /><br /> (Just to clarify - I'm not equating community members to developers<br /> here, I'm referring to the entire community of PSC/documenters/bug<br /> reporters/user group & event organisers/local promoters/etc... No<br /> limits!)<br /><br /> Osgeo has the Sol Katz Award (<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz">http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz</a>) for wider<br /> contributions to GFOSS. I think we could take the same model and have<br /> a QGIS-specific award, which is presented at the annual user<br /> conference.<br /><br /> I'd see this as a way we can celebrate the fact that QGIS is very much<br /> a community driven project, and as a way of bringing the huge "behind<br /> the scenes" contributions which community members have made to the<br /> attention of the wider QGIS userbase. It'd be both a good way of<br /> thanking these contributors and also giving us a marketing opportunity<br /> to encourage new contributors into the community.<br /><br /> (Potentially we could also have a second award for contributing<br /> organisations too, but that's a different topic...)<br /><br /><br /> Nyall<br /> _______________________________________________<br /> Qgis-psc mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br /><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc</a></div>
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