Yes, I think that is the way to go. The Apache Groovy project recognizes contributors to the project through making them committers and/or PMC members. The Groovy Star awards were always proposed to be about the whole community. That sits better with Friends-of-Groovy in my mind which also has a whole community brief.
Cheers, Paul. On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 12:55 AM Milles, Eric (TR Tech, Content & Ops) < eric.mil...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: > 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> 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 > > > >
