Let me see, if I can summarize the story (from over 50 mails) There is a general +1 (14ish) right now on making a Groovy Award, and a majority of people who are in favor of the "Groovy Star" award name, both because it has a nice ring to it, because it can be associated with the Groovy logo, and because it sounds a bit like Java Rockstars.
There also seems to be a general consensus that it can be given to core comitters, but also to people who contribute to frameworks/libraries in the ecosystem, and to people who in other ways (community work, conference organizers etc) makes an impact for the community. There is a discussion, wether it should be awarded as an award for a given year vs a lifetime archivement award. This is still something that needs to be agreed uppon. Besides being an honor to receive an award, it has also been suggested that there could be a monitary reward, to be regcognized by becoming a "comitter" or PMC member. If it is monitary the money could come from Friends of Groovy, if that can be agreed uppon. Awards could be announced at Groovy related conferences (GR8Conf, Greach, devnexus2gm or others) There need to be a discussion on how the nominees are appointed, and who decides on who will get the award. >From e personal point of view (and from the view of being a conference organizer) I would love to be able to hand out an award like this. But it seems that we're too late for GR8Conf at the end of this month. I hope I have captured most of the discussion bullets, other wise feel free to correct me. Have a gr8 day 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 Wed, 8 May 2019 at 23:44, Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote: > 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 >> > >> >>
