The Akraino award is granted to individuals that are nominated by the Akraino TSC and Community members and considered to have contributed to evolvement of an Akraino Project individual and/or group Blueprint(s) for achieving both, Sustaining and/or Disruptive Innovation (as defined by Prof. Clayton Chistensen,1997, "The Innovator's Dilemma"). The Akraino award grantees are considered to have contributed with providing insightful ideas through sharing with the Akraino project members various personal ideas/insights, reports, specifications, articles, other Open Source Organizations and Community contributions on Technology specifications and exploring the potential for their inter-operability. From Akraino Project very first day, Akraino TSC and Community members have supported and promoted the realization of the articles stipulated in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by World leaders 25 years ago and GSMA SDG 5 focus on achieving Gender equality and empowering all women and girls to have more opportunities and access to Technology now than ever before.
Proposal: 2020 - 2021 Community Awards Program
Purpose/Intent: Would like to create a way to recognize outstanding contributions. Annual awards.
(reference proposed process as presented on TSC 2021-04-20 (Tuesday) 7:00am PT)
| Original Awards Categories Proposal | Characteristic | Updated Awards Categories Proposed for TSC Approval | Proposed Voting Body | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Women of the Year | who made impact as contributors, committers, PTLs, sub-committee members, TSC members | Women of the year This awards recognizes women representation in Akraino community. This category identifies the individual who has been a champion for Akraino community and has provided a significant contribution as a committer, contributor and as a sub-committee and TSC member. Motivation for this category - Trinkenreich, Bianca. (2021). Please Don't Go -- Increasing Women's Participation in Open Source Software. | Use the voting members from the recent TSC Member election | Position as quantity 3 (top 3, versus first place) Trophy to each |
Best infrastructure blueprint of the year | development, integration and deployment of infrastructure area | Top Blueprints of the year This is an exclusive award category for recognizing the Blueprint team that has created a huge impact in the Akraino community. This award recognizes the Blueprints that has showcased significant and rich technical features, very successful in Akraino community for collaborations(within the Akarino community or with Universities and NGOs), achieved landing applications and successfully show casing the features through PoC , field trails and production. | TSC+PTLs | Position as quantity 3 (top 3, versus first place) Trophy to the Blueprint (PTL can house), Certificates to the Team Members of the BP |
Best IoT blueprint of the year | development, integration and deployment of IoT area | |||
Best automotive blueprint of the year | development, integration and deployment of Automotive area | |||
Best Collaboration across BPs | common Functionalities and/or Development/Roadmap | |||
Best Blueprint for Security Compliance | enhanced Security to BPs within Akraino | |||
Achievement in Landing Applications for blueprints | impact through PoC or Trials | |||
Best Liaison (external community liaison) | merge with Upstream Community integration and SW alignment. | Top Akrainoians Champion of Akraino - This individual helps Akraino community to build, spread awareness about the Akraino community in the industry and in its Blueprint. Created an impact in the Akraino community and helped build this community stronger, driving interest and excitement in the community. | TSC+PTLs | Position as quantity 3 (top 3, versus first place) Trophy to each |
Achievement in evangelism of Akraino | promoting Akraino to other Open Source and SDO Organizations | |||
Achievement in Sub-Committee | Impact Sub-committee members | |||
Achievement in TSC membership | impact as TSC members | |||
Performance by a PTL | PTLs created impact | |||
Performance by a Committer/Contributor | Impact through SW development (indicated on the LF Edge tool: ), ideas, Technical specifications/reports/presentation | Top Committers This award recognizes the individual, who excels in the technical contributions to Akraino projects. The Top Committer made significant contributions to the key features in the Akraino project, that is more important and beneficial to the projects and Akraino as whole. The contribution is so important that it has uplifted the Akraino community and created an external impact as well. | Use the voting members from the recent TSC Member election | Position as quantity 3 (top 3, versus first place) Trophy to each |