Can the open collective team recognize significant achievements in the community and make awards? You could announce one award per major conference (Gr8conf, Greach, Whatever2gm).
________________________________ From: Søren Berg Glasius <soe...@glasius.dk> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9:50 AM To: dev@groovy.apache.org Cc: Jochen Theodorou Subject: Re: Groovy Champions proposal feedback How can we revive this discussion? I still think it's relevant. :) Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, Søren Berg Glasius Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark Mobile: +45 40 44 91 88, Skype: sbglasius --- Press ESC once to quit - twice to save the changes. On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 at 17:40, MG <mg...@arscreat.com<mailto:mg...@arscreat.com>> wrote: ...and, of course, the Apache Groovy Community Lifetime Achievement Award ;-) Like the name, +1 (again) on tying the award to a specific year, don't think that mixing commit access with the award makes sense (as in programming: Keep things single purpose - nobdy wants to be fat, be it class or human ;-) ) On 02.03.2018 10:11, Jochen Theodorou wrote: > hi all, > > I was thinking a while about all this and all the problems involved > here and I want to show an alternative. > > Apache Groovy Community Award > > Name surely to be changed. The idea is to give a nominal award for > what they did in the past. Somebody getting this award will get this > for a reason, which is to be stated. > > Since it is no title like "champion" and since we can give a > description of the reasons the award will be always specific, it is > not a title you carry around your lifetime and all of that. Maybe a > person could be awarded multiple times, but that is then to decide. > That means there will be no discussions about revoking the > championship, or for how long this is granted. Also I think the award > leaves better space for a good naming. Also we can give commit access > along with it, which may or may not be taken, but then includes the > official ASF way of recognizing people. > > what do you guys think? > > bye Jochen >
