[Board] awards discussion

Fri Jun 30 05:37:20 PDT 2017

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/

email: hmitaso at ncsu.edu
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