[Board] awards discussion

[Helena Mitasova]

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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