Dolphin Awards Nomination Announcement

Last modified by Patrick Masson on 2022/06/28 22:43

Call for Nominations

Apereo's Dolphin Awards celebrates the many volunteer efforts, innovations, and success stories of our open source community through three distinctive honors:

  • Enterprise Solutions: The Dolphin Award for Enterprise Solutions recognizes individuals, academic institutions, project teams, or others in the development, deployment, and/or administration of any Apereo software project in support of higher education.
  • Innovation, Advocacy, and Networking (The "I.A.N."): The IAN recognizes creative and visionary community members who promote and propel open source initiatives to meet higher education's diverse and evolving needs. While not a specific requirement, particular consideration is given to those who have shown significant contributions over years of service.
  • Teaching and Learning: The Dolphin Award for Teaching and Learning recognizes innovation in the use of open source software for academic purposes, delivering excellent pedagogy through Apereo tools, sharing new/best practices in education, and encouraging greater faculty and/or student involvement in the improvement or advancement of Apereo's portfolio of open source resources.

The Apereo Foundation encourages all members of the Apereo community to consider nominating a colleague (or yourself), no matter what role they (or you) may serve, type of contribution, or area of participation. Importantly, the program recognizes contributors at the individual project level as well as those who contribute more generally to Apereo Foundation initiatives. Eligible applicants are those working on any of Apereo's current projects (e.g., Bedework, CAS, Opencast, Sakai, uPortal, etc.), projects under incubation (e.g., Fiosan, Tsugi, etc.), Apereo Foundation initiatives (e.g., Open Apereo, Incubation, etc.), or advancing the mission of the Apereo Foundation in another way.  In short, if you contribute to a project or community, you contribute to Apereo.

Awards

  • A certificate of recognition.
  • A special "swag bag" related to the award (please provide your t-shirt size).
  • A cash award of US $599.00 (Non-US based recipients will be subject to Federal US tax withholding of 30% unless all requirements are met, according to our Vendor Policies page. Contact accounting@apereo.org with any questions.)
  • Registration for the following year's Open Apereo Conference.
    • Up to US$1,500 toward Apereo-related conferences and event travel expenses, such as travel and accommodation for the following year's Open Apereo Conference (airfare/baggage, taxi/bus/train/mileage, hotel, per diems for meals, visa fees).
    • Registration fees, travel, and accommodations to other pre-approved, Apereo events (airfare/baggage, taxi/bus/train/mileage, hotel, per diems for meals, visa fees).

Eligibility

  • Recognition through a Dolphin Award is based on the contributions to the Apereo community, projects, and initiatives.
  • The nomination form asks for detailed examples highlighting the candidates experience, expertise, and initiative. The complete nomination form must be completed in order to be considered.
  • Anyone may nominate candidates (including themselves) for any or all of the Dolphin Awards.
  • Candidates for the Enterprise Solutions and Teaching and Learning awards must have experience working with at least one Apereo project (active or in incubation) of  community related to the activity(ies) supporting their nominated.
  • Recipients are not required to work at or be associated with an Apereo Foundation member organization (e.g., university, commercial affiliate, etc.).
  • Those who have received a fellowship within the past three years are not eligible to apply.
  • Apereo Board members and Apereo staff are also not eligible to apply.

Application Form

[INSERT LINK TO APEREO DOLPHIN FELLOWSHIPS APPLICATION HERE]

Application Deadline

April 30, 2021, 23:59 UTC.

More Information

  • Open Apereo [INSERT YEAR] Online: [INSERT LINK TO OPEN APEREO]

On behalf of the Apereo Board of Directors, I look forward to receiving your application.

All the best,

Patrick Masson
Interim General Manager