[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award Nomination procedure (was Nomination for Venkatesh Raghavan)

[Richard Greenwood]

I agree that this is the first year that nominations have been
publicly discussed and it is a departure from previous years. I
followed Jeff's lead when I nominated Chris.

But hey, we're an open community, I think it's even in the name
somewhere. And spreading a little recognition around to hard working
members of our community surely doesn't hurt.

Rich

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> Hi Stefano, Bart, all,
>
> I simply sent my nomination to solkatzaward at osgeo.org and CC'd Discuss -
> I did this on my own doing.  I don't have a blog, so my opinions are
> posted through mailing lists, so I don't see an issue with posting my
> thoughts here in public.  In fact I am very proud to post my nomination
> for Venka publicly.
>
> Although now it seems I was wrong.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 12-09-18 11:40 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> Hi Stefano,
>>
>> I share your concerns. This is the first year that this is happening,
>> and it's not outlined at all in the request for nominations.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
>> --
>> Bart van den Eijnden
>> OSGIS - http://osgis.nl
>>
>> On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Stefano Costa <steko at iosa.it
>> <mailto:steko at iosa.it>> wrote:
>>
>> Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto:
>>>>> He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.
>>
>> Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you
>> personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional
>> contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a
>> public "thumbs up session" for candidates rather than leave it to the
>> committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates
>> (there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails
>> have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the
>> discussion list).
>>
>> If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I
>> apologise in advance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> steko
>>
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