[Board] awards discussion

Fri Jun 30 05:50:38 PDT 2017

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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>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Helena Mitasova
> Professor
> Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
> North Carolina State University
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