Awards or Grants

See also GlassFish Grants And Awards Program

Each community has a fair amount of flexibility in how to arrange their programs; the main constraint is that money won't be available until July/August, although it may be "assigned" early.

I propose we use a combination of grants and awards, with a heavier emphasis on grants.

Also, keeping a certain amount for best contribution among grants may drive up quality. It could itself be and award. (-Alexis, Jan. 10th)

Before trying to decide on the specific amounts for each category, I think we should brainstorm a bit about the types of things we want to encourage.

The number of categories should be kept to a reasonable amount to that grants and awards remain at above a motivating sum (above $1000). (-Alexis, Jan. 10th)

Another thought is that the simpler the program, the better; and, in a practical sense, we may want to see if we can just reuse some of the legal framework from the other communities, just to save us effort.

Some Ideas:

GRANTS could be for

• Porting common Packages (or do a better job with docs/start-up)
• Brand-new Projects
• Blueprints for collections of technologies
• New Features
• Courseware
• JUGs / GUGs
• Geo-Specific activities (Web Portals, whatever)
• Organize / Attend mini-GlassFish Days and other Conferences
• Machines
• ....

AWARDS could be for...

• previous contributions
• contributions in the new period (say Jan -> June)
• best contribution in the program
• ....