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

Wed Oct 25 16:31:32 UTC 2023

Great idea, this will elevate the cause of UA to a new height. The entire UA Community should work towards it. Over the years, we like to see this  award being recognized as a prestigious award for which people feel proud to talk about.
It will be a pleasure for me to be part of this journey. 
Regards,Sushanta SinhaUA Ambassador. 

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  On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 18:22, Dr Ajay Data via UA-Tech<ua-tech at icann.org> wrote:     Whatever name we keep or "UA Champions", but we must always keep recognising people who do work for UA in any shape and kind. We need to be just careful with our messaging as we already have UA Ambassadors.  Best Wises.  
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>From: Jothan Frakes via UA-Tech <ua-tech at icann.org>  MailId : [138388567]
To: Jim DeLaHunt <list+uasg at jdlh.com>
Cc: UA-Tech <ua-tech at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [UA-Tech] "Champions of UA" RECOGNITION [was: Re: UASG Five Year Strategic Planning FY(2025 - 2029)]
Date: 24 Oct 2023 02:59:06 PM 

Thanks Jim. I didn`t see any other responses so I thought that my message may not have gotten through to the list. Hopefully it might be a modest lift with large gain -Jothan
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 9:49 AM Jim DeLaHunt <list+uasg at jdlh.com> wrote:

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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