[Board] awards discussion

Helena Mitasova hmitaso at ncsu.edu
Sat Jul 1 14:00:45 PDT 2017 

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That is fine, the wiki closing section was done in a break out meeting
> with Guido.
>
> We do need a wiki page to marshal committees and local chapter for the AGM.


We already have a space for it on the AGM wiki so perhaps we don't need a
separate wiki page.

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

We now need to send an email to OSGeo discuss to ask people to sign up for
local chapters, projects and committees, we could cc it to specific lists
if there are any or o specific people if we know who they are.

>
>
> Please adjust the closing section as needed, or if you like to plan
> separately we can remove from that page and you can let us know when we are
> needed.
>

The wiki shows the awards after the keynote while the program grid document
pdf shows awards before the keynote as part of the AGM session- that is the
problem I have been referring to.
Please correct me if I am reading the documents in a wrong way, we just
need to make sure that our wiki and the official program are aligned.

Best regards, Helena


> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:01 PM Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Having expressed my opinion, we’ll still want to discuss the schedule of
>> the closing ceremony at the next Program Committee meeting, this Wednesday
>> :-)
>>
>> — Andy
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it would be a good idea to have all of the awards at the closing
>>> ceremony.
>>>
>>
>> It would be good to change this in the program grid pdf,
>> http://2017.foss4g.org/program/foss4g-schedule.pdf
>>  it currently shows
>>
>> OSGeo AGM Meeting & Awards
>>
>> and  the keynote and closing plenary after that.
>>
>> Perhaps just remove Awards from OSGeo AGM meeting and modify
>> Closing plenary & Awards.
>>
>> Thank you, Helena
>>
>>
>>> The judging of student papers/posters is an item on the Academic
>>> Committee’s to-do list from way back, though recently it’s been subsumed to
>>> reviewing the academic papers. But now is the time to get commitments for
>>> judges from Committee members / GeoForAll representatives who will be at
>>> the conference. Charlie and Zia (co-chairs) and I will chat more about that
>>> separately.
>>>
>>> — Andy
>>>
>>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 8:50 AM, 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>> email: hmitaso at ncsu.edu
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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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>> --
>> 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/
>>
>> email: hmitaso at ncsu.edu
>> ph: 919-513-1327 <(919)%20513-1327> (no voicemail)
>> fax 919 515-7802 <(919)%20515-7802>
>>
>>
>> --
> --
> Jody Garnett
>



-- 
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/

email: hmitaso at ncsu.edu
ph: 919-513-1327 (no voicemail)
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