> On Jun 16, 2006, at 01:23, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: >> On 6/15/06, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 01:13, Ben Rockwood wrote: >>> > Calum Benson wrote: >>> >> On 15 Jun 2006, at 18:53, Sara Dornsife wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> You can find all of the Contributor Award Winners at >>> >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/ >>> contributoraward/ >>> >> >>> >> Blimey, that's quite a list... did any of the nominees /not/ >>> win? :) >>> > >>> > Four persons were removed from the original list of 53 nominees >>> > making for 49 total winners. Those excluded were: >>> > >>> > Al Hopper & Rich Teer, because they are CAB members who "judged" on >>> > the list. >>> > Sara Dornsife & Laura Ramsey, because the were involved in >>> > organizing the awards program. >>> >>> Also myself and Casper Dik, also on the CAB. >> >> why? >> i did read the mail in cab-discuss but... > > All five CAB members had been nominated for an award, as had both Sun > marketing staff. The CAB conducted a discussion privately after the > public discussion on the mailing list, as well as consulting with > Sara, and came to a majority decision. The CAB felt is was not > appropriate for either the organisers or judges of the Awards to > receive awards themselves - it would 'look' wrong and the CAB wanted > to avoid any impression of impropriety. All seven were therefore > removed from the final award list. >
This is a "community" and while that word tends to get overused I feel strongly that the people nominated were promoted by people for good reason. I feel, as the squeaky wheel that I am, that Rich Teer and Sara Dornsife and Laura ramsey and James Dickens worked one hell of a year and they deserve every bit of recognition that we can give them. These are people that I nominated. But a few were deleted for, excuse me, perception reasons ? Rich Teer has _been_there_ for me on sooo many occasions going back years and years and on more late nights in more server rooms than I care to mention. If it was a choice that Rich made because he thought it wouldn't "look good" than I have to ask "to whom"? James Dickens and I have worked together many late nights over the past twelve months and he is no more a champion of this project than Rich Teer. >From one to another within this community I must ask "to whom would this look wrong?" Too many people have said that Sun is dead and that Solaris is dead and that Solaris x86 is gone and _here_we_are_ with great technology and a successful community project with distributions growing here and there. It has been a great year and to me all would look just fine. Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
