[Board] awards discussion

[Jody Garnett]

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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