[Qgis-psc] Idea: launch a annual QGIS community member award?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Niall


It's an interesting idea but I am pretty -1 on it for these reasons:

* Singling out specific people out as 'stars' in a small community is
inevitably going to ruffle feathers as inevitably some will feel
overlooked. It was actually one of the background themes of discussion in
Essen - ruffled feathers and how to maintain a sense of harmony within the
project. I'd like to avoid doing things that can be potentially divisive
and focus on things that get / keep us working harmoniously as a community.
* It is going to add more admin - all the changes we have been doing moving
to a Verein and figuring out processes for voting members etc. has already
added a lot of admin overhead to the project - hopefully these will fade
back to tolerable levels once we get into the routine of it, but for now I
think there are other high value things we could be doing admin-wise for
the project.
* It would probably be nicer to try to revive the idea of monthly community
member interviews (proposed once by Andreas) for the blog to spotlight the
different activities and personas behind the project - although again this
requires some effort to sustain.

@Andreas the intent behind the honorary members was that it would be used
very occasionally over the life of the project and (in the context of
honorary board or PSC members) - I think we should add a specific clause to
include honorary voting members if we want to go that route.

Regards

Tim



On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> Hi Nyall,
>
> Thanks for raising this. We can discuss it at our next meeting.
>
> In the QGIS.ORG charter we have the concepts of an "honorary member" and
> an "honorary PSC member". Maybe this can be re-used for such a "community
> award"?
>
> I'd have a hard time picking the person that deserves such an award the
> most - though. There are several community members (incl. devs) who
> contribute an awful lot. But that wouldn't be an obstacle for such an award
> ...
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2017-05-29 01:44, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
> Hi PSC,
>
> I'd like to raise an idea which has recently been on my mind: I'd love
> to see us launch some type of annual "QGIS Community member award".
> The QGIS project is only successful today because of the tireless
> efforts of the QGIS community - and the contributions made by some
> community members have been totally crucial to us achieving this
> success. I'd love to see us have some way of formally acknowledging
> these community members who've gone "above and beyond expectations"
> with their contributions to QGIS.
>
> (Just to clarify - I'm not equating community members to developers
> here, I'm referring to the entire community of PSC/documenters/bug
> reporters/user group & event organisers/local promoters/etc... No
> limits!)
>
> Osgeo has the Sol Katz Award (http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz) for wider
> contributions to GFOSS. I think we could take the same model and have
> a QGIS-specific award, which is presented at the annual user
> conference.
>
> I'd see this as a way we can celebrate the fact that QGIS is very much
> a community driven project, and as a way of bringing the huge "behind
> the scenes" contributions which community members have made to the
> attention of the wider QGIS userbase. It'd be both a good way of
> thanking these contributors and also giving us a marketing opportunity
> to encourage new contributors into the community.
>
> (Potentially we could also have a second award for contributing
> organisations too, but that's a different topic...)
>
>
> Nyall
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*Tim Sutton*
QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
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