Re: WWRUG/ARSlist Awards 2012: Nominations for MVP etc. and New Categories now open
I've done my part to vote. I did have to decide between a handful of people, but I made my nomination. Brian Goralczyk Phone 574-643-1144 Email bgoralc...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Doug Blair d...@blairing.com wrote: ARSlist readers, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH A NOMINATION, but do keep reading! I was just filtering through a few thousand emails at lunch today and the two sent by Dan Bloom and LJ Longwing struck a chord. We read this mailing list every day, and (probably) search the archives every so often, looking for that elusive bit of knowledge, configuration, programming technique or someone else's experience with an extremely complicated subject. There is too much to know and not enough brain space for any single person to know all of it. We must share what we have learned just to get through the day. The things I have learned on the list have saved me MONTHS of effort! There is a dedicated group of generous people who over the past year (and past couple of decades) have freely shared what they know so that we can do our jobs better. Participation is time consuming, frustrating, detailed and usually thankless. Usually thankless, but not now. Would you take a few minutes to think about the number of times you have learned something from the ARSLIST in the past year? How-to-do-it? Yes, that's a bug. No, we fixed it this way. Here's another approach. We have a similar symptom, but a different cause. They misspelled the doxumentation. We tested this product and it's great. We tested this product and it sucks! Of course, there's another way to do it! You can remember the 60's? Then you weren't really there, were you? If any of these happened to you (except for that last one) because of something you read on the ARSLIST, now's the time to say Thanks!, by nominating the person for the Most Valuable Contributor to the ARSLIST. There's also an award for the BMC Software Employee who has gone Beyond the Call Of Duty. DO NOT reply to this email with a nomination. Read Dan Bloom's August 3rd post earlier in this thread for complete details, or just send a private email to d...@wwrug.com. Doug -- Doug Blair d...@blairing.com +1 224-558-5462 200 North Arlington Heights Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 BMC/Remedy Skilled Professional ITILv3 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are
Re: WWRUG/ARSlist Awards 2012: Nominations for MVP etc. and New Categories now open
ARSlist readers, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH A NOMINATION, but do keep reading! I was just filtering through a few thousand emails at lunch today and the two sent by Dan Bloom and LJ Longwing struck a chord. We read this mailing list every day, and (probably) search the archives every so often, looking for that elusive bit of knowledge, configuration, programming technique or someone else's experience with an extremely complicated subject. There is too much to know and not enough brain space for any single person to know all of it. We must share what we have learned just to get through the day. The things I have learned on the list have saved me MONTHS of effort! There is a dedicated group of generous people who over the past year (and past couple of decades) have freely shared what they know so that we can do our jobs better. Participation is time consuming, frustrating, detailed and usually thankless. Usually thankless, but not now. Would you take a few minutes to think about the number of times you have learned something from the ARSLIST in the past year? How-to-do-it? Yes, that's a bug. No, we fixed it this way. Here's another approach. We have a similar symptom, but a different cause. They misspelled the doxumentation. We tested this product and it's great. We tested this product and it sucks! Of course, there's another way to do it! You can remember the 60's? Then you weren't really there, were you? If any of these happened to you (except for that last one) because of something you read on the ARSLIST, now's the time to say Thanks!, by nominating the person for the Most Valuable Contributor to the ARSLIST. There's also an award for the BMC Software Employee who has gone Beyond the Call Of Duty. DO NOT reply to this email with a nomination. Read Dan Bloom's August 3rd post earlier in this thread for complete details, or just send a private email to d...@wwrug.com. Doug -- Doug Blair d...@blairing.com +1 224-558-5462 200 North Arlington Heights Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 BMC/Remedy Skilled Professional ITILv3 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are
Re: WWRUG/ARSlist Awards 2012: Nominations for MVP etc. and New Categories now open
ARSList, I beg you all to go out and nominate. Every year Daniel goes through the effort to get people to participate, I was shocked last year when I tried to nominate two people and Dan said I could only nominate one, and that if two sources nominated each of the people I wanted to be on the ballot, they would be. There are a lot of people on this list that have benefited from others time and effort. If you have been helped by ANYONE this year, please take the time out of YOUR day and nominate them. I would personally love to see a list of at least 6 people to be able to vote from this year. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Daniel Bloom Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:21 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: WWRUG/ARSlist Awards 2012: Nominations for MVP etc. and New Categories now open ** ** Sorry for the long post, it is needed for this: As Founder of the ARSlist in November 1993, it is my privilege to announce the 17th Annual ARSlist Awards, Call For Nominations. These awards were created by me in 1995 to recognize the effort that other people were putting into the list by providing the questions, the excellent technical replies and frequently mediocre humour. It was also to provide posters an incentive to keep providing those excellent technical replies and perhaps improve the humour. The Rules for Nominations and some General Rules: * An individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources * The years postings are somewhat reviewed to ensure that this is someone who posts quality answers. ( Not that anyone has ever been rejected on this basis) * Only those that have registered on the ARSlist before August 1st. 2012 will be eligible to vote. It is assumed you won't vote if you haven't been around long enough to know the posters in question. In the unlikely event of another tie, the person or product with the greatest number of sources of votes will be declared winner. If it is still a tie, a panel of past winners will convene to break the tie. * Voting and nominating is by the Individual REAL person, so redistribution lists don't vote, your identity must be known, and those that have multiple subscriptions still get only one vote * BMCSoftware employees on the ARSlist are eligible to vote * All decisions of myself or the oversight panel are final (if I have to make a controversial decision, I confer with 3 past MVP winners for their opinion) * Nominations posted to the list are not accepted, they must be to d...@wwrug.com * Votes posted to the list are not accepted, they must be to d...@wwrug.com Past MVP [Most Valuable Poster Award] recipients are: 2011 Misi Mladoniczky 2010 Joe D'Souza 2009 Dr. Christopher Strauss 2007 Rick Cook 2006 Axton Grams --- 2005 Tim Widowfield 2004 Matt Reinfeldt 2003 Carey Matthew Black 2002 Chris Woyton 2001 Gidd Calden 2000 Jarl Groneng, Tommy Nijem 1999 Rick Cook 1998 Raymond Leach 1997 Vicky Bayol 1996 Joel D. Sender 1995 Martin Nystrom In the MVP list above, anyone after 2005 is not eligible, and neither am I or the Advisory Board of the Conference So, the two open categories are - *MVP - Most Valuable Poster. This is the person you feel has contributed the most to the list in a combination of quality and quantity. Anyone who has won the award in the last 5 years, current BMC or BMC Remedy employees are not eligible. An individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources. BMC Software Employee: Beyond the Call of Duty Award Again, an individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources. Nominations for other Categories are also open until August 17th Nominate a potential winner for another Category while you suggest the category if you wish [no Nominations, no Award will be conferred in that category there must be more than one Nomination for a category etc.] Please send nominations to d...@wwrug.com Software categories are currently being handled by on-site Awards at WWRUG with the vendors in the Showcase being eligible. The ARSlist Awards are not currently contemplating software categories. Time Lines: August 1st : This message is posting opening Nominations August 17th: Nominations for MVP closes, other category nominations close August 22nd: Voting begins for 2 weeks for MVP and other categories September 5th: The voting closes at 5 p.m. EST Thursday October 18th at WWRUG12: Award Ceremony during the WWRUG Awards keynote. [no one knows the winner(s) until then, well okay, except me and the plaque company] Please send nominations to d...@wwrug.com Thanks ... Daniel
WWRUG/ARSlist Awards 2012: Nominations for MVP etc. and New Categories now open
** Sorry for the long post, it is needed for this: As Founder of the ARSlist in November 1993, it is my privilege to announce the 17th Annual ARSlist Awards, Call For Nominations. These awards were created by me in 1995 to recognize the effort that other people were putting into the list by providing the questions, the excellent technical replies and frequently mediocre humour. It was also to provide posters an incentive to keep providing those excellent technical replies and perhaps improve the humour. The Rules for Nominations and some General Rules: * An individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources * The years postings are somewhat reviewed to ensure that this is someone who posts quality answers. ( Not that anyone has ever been rejected on this basis) * Only those that have registered on the ARSlist before August 1st. 2012 will be eligible to vote. It is assumed you won't vote if you haven't been around long enough to know the posters in question. In the unlikely event of another tie, the person or product with the greatest number of sources of votes will be declared winner. If it is still a tie, a panel of past winners will convene to break the tie. * Voting and nominating is by the Individual REAL person, so redistribution lists don't vote, your identity must be known, and those that have multiple subscriptions still get only one vote * BMCSoftware employees on the ARSlist are eligible to vote * All decisions of myself or the oversight panel are final (if I have to make a controversial decision, I confer with 3 past MVP winners for their opinion) * Nominations posted to the list are not accepted, they must be to d...@wwrug.com * Votes posted to the list are not accepted, they must be to d...@wwrug.com Past MVP [Most Valuable Poster Award] recipients are: 2011 Misi Mladoniczky 2010 Joe D'Souza 2009 Dr. Christopher Strauss 2007 Rick Cook 2006 Axton Grams --- 2005 Tim Widowfield 2004 Matt Reinfeldt 2003 Carey Matthew Black 2002 Chris Woyton 2001 Gidd Calden 2000 Jarl Groneng, Tommy Nijem 1999 Rick Cook 1998 Raymond Leach 1997 Vicky Bayol 1996 Joel D. Sender 1995 Martin Nystrom In the MVP list above, anyone after 2005 is not eligible, and neither am I or the Advisory Board of the Conference So, the two open categories are - *MVP - Most Valuable Poster. This is the person you feel has contributed the most to the list in a combination of quality and quantity. Anyone who has won the award in the last 5 years, current BMC or BMC Remedy employees are not eligible. An individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources. BMC Software Employee: Beyond the Call of Duty Award Again, an individual must be nominated by at least two independent sources. Nominations for other Categories are also open until August 17th Nominate a potential winner for another Category while you suggest the category if you wish [no Nominations, no Award will be conferred in that category there must be more than one Nomination for a category etc.] Please send nominations to d...@wwrug.com Software categories are currently being handled by on-site Awards at WWRUG with the vendors in the Showcase being eligible. The ARSlist Awards are not currently contemplating software categories. Time Lines: August 1st : This message is posting opening Nominations August 17th: Nominations for MVP closes, other category nominations close August 22nd: Voting begins for 2 weeks for MVP and other categories September 5th: The voting closes at 5 p.m. EST Thursday October 18th at WWRUG12: Award Ceremony during the WWRUG Awards keynote. [no one knows the winner(s) until then, well okay, except me and the plaque company] Please send nominations to d...@wwrug.com Thanks . Daniel Daniel Bloom ARSlist Founder RAC/RSP since 1995 WWRUG Co-Founder Chairman of WWRUG12 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are
