[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017
Hi folks, Yesterday a 500th OSM member has voted at the OSM Awards. And we have just a week left for the other 500 to vote. Which means you: go to the... http://awards.osmz.ru/ ...right now, read through the names and descriptions, and choose people you think should be awarded something for their work. Because you won't have another chance at saying thanks to them this year. Unless you do it directly, which is obviously better. Still, show them your support by going to the website and voting. The voting closes on 16th of August. And in a few days, at the social event of the State of the Map 2017, the winners will be announced. The blog post will follow shortly after that. Ilya ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017: the voting is open!
Hi, The community voting for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2017 is open! Please head to the awards website and choose nominees you think are worthy of the award. This time you are not limited to one vote per category, so you won't have to make hard choices between equally good nominees. http://awards.osmz.ru/ In the OSM blog there will be a series of posts about nominees. We have 45 of these now, so it is not simple to choose among them in at once. Today we look at the "Core Systems" and "Innovation" categories: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/07/20/choose-the-best-among-us-at-osm-awards-2017/ Please vote and see you at the State of the Map! Thanks, Ilya ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017
Thanks for bringing up the topic, Michael. The call for nominees has ended, and after that I have studied each one and filtered out duplicates, nominees that already have an award, that did not do anything in the past year or do not seem to do anything with OpenStreetMap. You can see reasons for nominees you submitted by logging in and clicking the first tab, "mine": http://awards.osmz.ru/nominees/mine In total 33 entries were hidden, including 9 entries for "SPIN Unit", which is both unknown in OSM community and has operated for at least three years. I removed myself either, very grateful to the one who nominated me :) Today I have written to a lot of mailing lists and individuals asking them to grade the nominees. The principle is this: * Core — OWG * Innovations — EWG * Writing — CWG * Mapping — there are five nominees, so everyone passes * Community — not sure right now, help welcome * Latin America — SotM LatAm team and people Tyler and Miriam recommended * Africa — SotM Africa team and people Tyler recommended * Asia — SotM team, Kathmandu Living Labs and some other people recommended * Ulf Möller Award — the Board Of course, if anybody from the teams mentioned participates, then their teams would be removed from the list of nominees. For this reason I cannot ask, for example, the HOT to help me with the community award. Committee members do not write me any reasons for their ranking. That would be too much in my opinion. I do not intend to share their lists, nor disclose their names: it would be more open, but at the same time would put some stress on them. You would have to believe me I watch for conflicts of interest and do not interfere in the process in any way. On 17th of July (yes, we're running a few days late) I'll run the STV process on all lists I will have received, and that would give me five best nominees in each of the categories. And shortly after that the community voting will be open. This year you won't have to choose between equally great nominees: we'll use the Approval Voting method. It fares pretty well compared to other methods: https://electology.org/approval-voting Finally, if you know somebody who is (or if you are) qualified to choose nominees for the "Community" category and doesn't have any conflict of interest on that, please mail me. Looking forward to the 19th of August, Ilya 12.07.2017 23:11, Michael Reichert пишет: Hi Ilya, Am 18.06.2017 um 11:05 schrieb Ilya Zverev: This year the nominees for the short list will be decided not by a single committee, but by a separate groups of people. For example, the Innovations award will be manager by the Engineering Working Group, and the Writing award — by the Communications WG. It is good to extend the committee. We don't have selection committees for mapping, community and regional awards, so if you want to participate, please contact me. Note that this will exclude you from the list of nominees. The call for nominees will close on 9th of July, and shortly after that we will start the second round, choosing the award recipients. I observed that my nomination disappeared. I assume that the selection is happening currently, isn't it? You mentioned the possible committees for two categories but I don't know the remaining ones. Of course, some selection has to happen because some nominations are just invalid (e.g. WeeklyOSM was nominated but was awarded last year). But I think that the selection should happen by the community and not by committees in the dark. If they sort out nominees, it would improve transparency very much and reduce (my) anger if they gave a short explanation. I don't expect a long essay, a simple "was awarded last year" or a sentence which explains why he/she does not fit into the category is good enough. Best regards Michael ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017
Hi Ilya, Am 18.06.2017 um 11:05 schrieb Ilya Zverev: > This year the nominees for the short list will be decided not by a > single committee, but by a separate groups of people. For example, the > Innovations award will be manager by the Engineering Working Group, and > the Writing award — by the Communications WG. It is good to extend the committee. > We don't have selection committees for mapping, community and regional > awards, so if you want to participate, please contact me. Note that this > will exclude you from the list of nominees. > > > The call for nominees will close on 9th of July, and shortly after that > we will start the second round, choosing the award recipients. I observed that my nomination disappeared. I assume that the selection is happening currently, isn't it? You mentioned the possible committees for two categories but I don't know the remaining ones. Of course, some selection has to happen because some nominations are just invalid (e.g. WeeklyOSM was nominated but was awarded last year). But I think that the selection should happen by the community and not by committees in the dark. If they sort out nominees, it would improve transparency very much and reduce (my) anger if they gave a short explanation. I don't expect a long essay, a simple "was awarded last year" or a sentence which explains why he/she does not fit into the category is good enough. Best regards Michael -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017
Hi again, There were some issues on the awards website that made it forget nominees. These are fixed now, so I again welcome you to enter names and projects you found interesting in the past year, so the best of these are nominated and then granted the OSM Award at the upcoming State of the Map conference. http://awards.osmz.ru/ I also ask you to help translating the website into as many languages as possible. Adding just French and Spanish languages would enable major parts of two more continents to participate. The translation is now done on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/openstreetmap/osm-awards/ Happy mapping or coding or writing, and do remember to acknowledge and encourage fellow osmers (and yourself!) by adding them to the list. Ilya ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Awards 2017
Hi everyone, Announcing the second OpenStreetMap Awards! Calling for nominees: add people who did good for OSM in the past year at the website: http://awards.osmz.ru/ This is a community award: nominees and winners are chosen by the community. We are now opening the Call for Nominees, to learn more about the amazing contributors to OpenStreetMap. The Awards strive to be a worldwide event for all OpenStreetMap members, including developers, mappers, community leaders, blog writers and everyone else. We need your help to find the best of OpenStreetMap globally. For the second awards, we added three more categories: for improving the community and the map on three continents under-represented in OpenStreetMap. We strive for increasing the diversity and expect to see more great nominees whom the larger community has not been aware yet. This is your chance to make yourself or people you admire visible for the entire world. Add your nominees on the awards website! Eligible are projects or other works that were announced after August 1st, 2016, except for the Ulf Möller Award, for which everyone is eligible regardless of the time when they were active in the project. Winners of past awards and selection committee members (in their categories) cannot be nominated. This year the nominees for the short list will be decided not by a single committee, but by a separate groups of people. For example, the Innovations award will be manager by the Engineering Working Group, and the Writing award — by the Communications WG. We don't have selection committees for mapping, community and regional awards, so if you want to participate, please contact me. Note that this will exclude you from the list of nominees. The call for nominees will close on 9th of July, and shortly after that we will start the second round, choosing the award recipients. Ilya ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
