Hey all,
It looks like there might be some budget to be able to do the contributor awards
[1] again this year for the projects 2nd birthday celebrations, and Sara's
looking for some help from the OGB with this.
Having had a rough read through the archive on cab-discuss last year [2], the
main points seem to be the following -
o From the day that Sara posted the announcement, there was about a
week to nominate and select 20 winners.
o The CAB were responsible for selecting 20 winners, with no official
selection criteria provided.
o There was wide confusion over who should be eligible - eg. excluding
Sun, OGB and marketing due to conflicts of interest.
o In the end, everyone on nomination list got sent something, along with
all those people who nominated someone.
I'm certainly not opposed to doing the contributor awards again, though I think
any repeat will obviously have to provide some stronger rules about it, and some
better selection criteria for the winners.
I'm also wondering if there are better ways to do this - for example, selecting
particular awards 'Above and Beyond', 'Technical Excellence', 'Teamwork' and
getting nominations for those rather than the free for all. Another way would be
to form a committee to elect the awards without the nomination step - The
O'Reilly Open Source Awards seem to be a good example of this.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions?
Glynn
[1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-June/003086.html
[2] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2006-June/date.html
