[UA-Tech] "Champions of UA" RECOGNITION [was: Re: UASG Five Year Strategic Planning FY(2025 - 2029)]

[Jim DeLaHunt]

I love, love, love this idea of a "Champions of UA" Recognition!

UASG does not have the power to compel organisations to become 
universally accepting. We cannot really affect the economic incentives 
which will, I believe, determine what universal acceptance happens or 
does not happen. But we certainly can celebrate those who are doing a 
good job.

We can take as models various awards: the Nobel prizes[1] for benefit to 
humanity, the Collier Trophy[2] for aeronautics and astronautics, the 
Academy Awards[3] ("Oscars") for the film industry, etc.

I suspect that $10,000 spent on developing an award for best Universal 
Acceptance accomplishment of the year, conferring it, and publicising 
it, might well advance Universal Acceptance more than hiring developers 
to evaluate and report on the universal acceptance flaws of a software 
library.

Great idea, Jothan!

Best regards,
     —Jim DeLaHunt

[1] Nobel Prizes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize>
[2] Collier Trophy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier_Trophy>
[3] Academy Awards <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards>

On 2023-10-09 10:34, Jothan Frakes via UA-Tech wrote:
> ...[background omitted]...
> Rather than pointing this likely familiar and aggressively 
> inconvenient aspect of the gaps that plague UA, I came up with an idea 
> that I'd like to float, and in the context of the budget planning, 
> would hope to see resourced to recognize UA champions who step up.
>
> *HERE IS THE IDEA - WHAT IF THERE WERE A "Champions of UA" RECOGNITION:*
> There were some dedicated recognition pages where companies' or 
> engineer's (or others' who help) names get listed in recognition of 
> being champions, along with what components that they updated.  I'd 
> suggest that this would not be expensive, and there is value to people 
> that could point to their name being listed as part of their CV or 
> other accolades.
> It may require special consideration due to privacy regulation, but 
> there's likely an opt-in process as part of submitting.
>
> The resourcing would be the web page and some form of coordinator / 
> review and curation of the champions list.  If it really took hold, 
> one could have awards, categories or other expansion of recognition, 
> things like badges that could be shown on linked-in or xing, or 
> printed certificate plaque pdf that can be framed and placed on office 
> wall.
>
> It won't solve all the gaps, and may not motivate 100% of the 
> key/crucial/necessary participants, but is really not a lot, but 
> rather than spiffs or bounties, it is a recognition that could be 
> meaningful enough to attract some momentum and solutions to happen.
>
> Currently, due to there being a lot of tech debt involved, there is 
> low allure to shining flashlights into the corners of how code might 
> be looking at domains - ASCII or IDN.  Perhaps elevating and 
> recognizing those who do (or their employers) is a way to help 
> exchange the costs of doing so for some ability to flex some accolades 
> or virtue signalling.
>
> Please steal and use this idea, and if it does work, plan that there 
> is budget for it considered.
>
> -Jothan
>
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     --Jim DeLaHunt,jdlh at jdlh.com      http://blog.jdlh.com/  (http://jdlh.com/)
       multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, Canada
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