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

[Tim Sutton]

Oops - I meant Nyall :-P

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:

> 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*
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