[Osmf-talk] OSM Awards: Call for Nominees

[Ilya Zverev]

No group can make an impartial decision, so leaving the choice to the 
community isn't much worse than leaving it to the LWG or to the Board.

We are not excluding submissions for Ulf Möller Award that were made to 
the memorial@ e-mail provided in the blog post. But generally yes, I'd 
keep it to the last year. Because, as I remember, the intention was to 
grant the award each year, so it's up to the 2012 board, why that hasn't 
happened before.

Also, all the awards ever granted (non-automatically) are popularity 
contests. There can be no objective measures for winning, or else we 
wouldn't need a vote. For the Ulf Möller Award, I assume a person who 
"has made a difference to the OpenStreetMap" would be known by many 
community members. We haven't been good in properly thanking people, but 
this year I expect this to change through this award.

If you think some person or project could do with more votes, you're 
welcome to remind community members of it. Please go and explain on 
talk@ and in diaries why your nominees have done a better job in their 
categories, as soon as the voting starts in early September. You don't 
have to keep your vote anonymous, and nobody is prohibited from 
promoting nominees.

IZ

06.08.2016 14:25, Simon Poole пишет:
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> Am 06.08.2016 um 11:20 schrieb Ilya Zverev:
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>> The winner will be determined after that based solely on the number of
>> votes.
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> While you could probably argue that that is OK for "most influential
> projects of the past year", that doesn't seem to be appropriate for the
> "Ulf Möller Award" which shouldn't simply be a popularity contest (that
> will be swamped by HOT in any case). On top of that you are excluding
> everybody that made substantial contributions to the OSM ecosystem
> before August 2015 which was not the intention when the award was created.
>
> Simon
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