[python-advocacy] Pycon

[Alvin Wang]

On 2/27/07, Stephan Deibel <sdeibel at wingware.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:28 AM, DeanG wrote:
>
> One outlet of Person of the Year is the O'Reilly Frank Willison Award
> given at OSCON.
>
> In the last few years it's gotten less attention and could use an
> Advocacy or PSF contact person.
>
>
> Yes, although it's at OSCON and not PyCon so would be good to have
> something
> at PyCon if someone is willing to take the lead on this.  Feel free to
> contact me to
> arrange some sort of prizes paid for by the PSF.
>
> BTW, at PyCon I found out that O'Reilly apparently thinks the Willison
> Award is
> supposed to be a PSF thing, and apparently last year's recipient never got
> any
> sort of paper or plaque or anything.  This may be confusion from the many
> changes
> of who is the main Python contact at O'Reilly.  I've never been to OSCON
> so don't
> know how it was presented in the past.  Clearly needs to be fixed -- don't
> use that
> as a model for how any PyCon-time award is done! ;-)
>
> In fact if someone wants to manage both awards, that would be great.  This
> is one of
> those items that the PSF board hasn't had time to do a good job with and
> each of
> the last years it's been a last minute thing.
>
>  -
>
> Stephan Deibel
> Chairman of the Board
> Python Software Foundation
>
>
>
>
I did not know about the Willison Award.  I was not planning on going to
Oscon even though I will be in Portland on the weekend before it.  We should
leave that as an overall Person of the year award.

Here are my thoughts on Pycon awards.  I would be willing to put some work
into it if nobody more qualified steps forward.

1) Decide on a manageable set of annual awards say <10.  Suggestions from
community by 8/31
- Python book of the year - should have word python on the cover - not
required
- Python article of the year - magazine web or print not a blog posting
- Python Evangelist of the year
- Python - closed source Product of the year
- Python open source project of the year
- Python - new project of the year
- Python Groundbreaker of the year
- Etc.

2) Nomination period - say 12/15->1/15

3) Voting period - say 1/16->2/15

4) Awards - whenever Pycon is


-- 
Alvin Wang
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