[Board] awards discussion

Sat Jul 1 10:32:19 PDT 2017

Michael, our planning for the AGM and closing is on the wiki:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2017

If you have any questions after reviewing this page please reply.

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" :)

--
Jody Garnett

On 30 June 2017 at 05:50, Michael Terner <mgt at appgeo.com> wrote:

> Just a quick note from Boston on some of these topics:
>
>    1. 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.)
>    2. 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.
>    3. 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
>    *is* a plan for that.
>
> Thanks again and let us know how we can help...
>
> MT
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Jody,
>>
>>  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
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2017
>>
>> the program lists awards as part of AGM while our wiki shows awards as
>> part of closing ceremony.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Other awards that we had in the past are:
>>
>>    - 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)
>>    - 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?
>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> Helena
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:53 PM Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jodi,
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> This is just my suggestion, other may have different opinion on this,
>>>>
>>>> Helena
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And let me know if this should be on discuss at osgeo.org, thought I
>>>>> would start with the board first :)
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28 June 2017 at 10:20, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we could also use an "outreach" or "advocacy" award for those
>>>>>> promoting our ideas to new audiences.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Finally a "leadership award" or even better a "new leadership" award
>>>>>> for those inspiring individuals he motivate us all to do better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please take a moment to review and think about the above, and perhaps
>>>>>> review our goals.
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Helena Mitasova
>>>> Professor
>>>> Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
>>>> North Carolina State University
>>>> 1125 Jordan Hall
>>>> NCSU Box 8208
>>>> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
>>>> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Helena Mitasova
>> Professor
>> Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
>> North Carolina State University
>> 1125 Jordan Hall
>> NCSU Box 8208
>> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
>> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/
>> http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/
>>
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