Sorry for the long post, it is needed for this:
As Founder of the ARSList in November 1993, it is my privilege to announce the 16th Annual ARSList Awards, Call For Nominations. These awards were created by me in 1995 to recognize the effort that other people were putting into the list by providing the questions, the excellent technical replies and frequently mediocre humour. It was also to provide posters an incentive to keep providing those excellent technical replies and perhaps improve the humour. The ARSlist corporate sponsors WWRUG Canada, Inc. and Daniel Bloom Consulting Inc. provide the award plaques, prizes, and various flying objects(BMC Remedy tends to provide baskets of twinkies). The Rules for Nominations and some General Rules: * An individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources * The years postings are somewhat reviewed to ensure that this is someone who posts quality answers. ( Not that anyone has ever been rejected on this basis) * Only those that have registered on the ARSList before August 1st. 2011 will be eligible to vote. It is assumed you won't vote if you haven't been around long enough to know the posters in question. In the unlikely event of another tie, the person or product with the greatest number of sources of votes will be declared winner. * Voting and nominating is by the Individual REAL person, so redistribution lists don't vote, and those that have multiple subscriptions still get only one vote * BMCSoftware employees on the ARSlist are eligible to vote * All decisions of myself or the oversight panel are final (if I have to make a controversial decision, I confer with 3 past MVP winners for their opinion) * Nominations posted to the list are not accepted, they must be to daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca * Votes posted to the list are not accepted, they must be to daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca Past MVP [Most Valuable Poster Award] recipients are: 2010 Joe D'Souza 2009 Dr. Christopher Strauss 2007 Rick Cook 2006 Axton Grams 2005 Tim Widowfield --------------------------- 2004 Matt Reinfeldt 2003 Carey Matthew Black 2002 Chris Woyton 2001 Gidd Calden 2000 Jarl Groneng, Tommy Nijem 1999 Rick Cook 1998 Raymond Leach 1997 Vicky Bayol 1996 Joel D. Sender 1995 Martin Nystrom In the MVP list above, anyone after 2004 is not eligible, and neither am I or the Advisory Board of the conference So, the two open categories are.... ----------------------------------------------------- *MVP - Most Valuable Poster. This is the person you feel has contributed the most to the list in a combination of quality and quantity. Anyone who has won the award in the last 5 years, current BMC or BMC Remedy employees are not eligible. An individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources. ------------------------------------------------ BMC Software Employee: Beyond the Call of Duty Award Again, an individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources. David Easter and Kelly Deaver have won recently, neither is currently eligible. Kelly both for that and leaving BMC. ------------------------------------------------ Nominations for other Categories are also open until August 19th Nominate a potential winner for another Category while you suggest the category if you wish [no Nominations, no Award will be conferred in that category there must be more than one Nomination for a category etc.] Please send nominations to daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca <mailto: daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca > Software categories are currently being handled by on-site Awards at WWRUG with the vendors in the Showcase being eligible. The ARSlist Awards are not currently contemplating software categories. Time Lines: August 19th: nominations for MVP closes, other category nominations close August 22nd: Voting begins for 2 weeks for MVP and other categories September 5th: The voting closes at 5 p.m. EST Thursday September 22nd at RUG2011: Award Ceremony [no one knows the winner(s) until then, well okay, except me and the plaque company] Please send nominations to daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca Thanks . Daniel Daniel Bloom ARSlist Founder RAC/RSP since 1995 WWRUG Co-Founder Chairman of WWRUG11 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
