The Extraordinary Outreach Awards Part II

09/06/2010 07:20:19 PM · #1

First the History...

This thread is about The Extraordinary Outreach Awards instituted on 09/10/2008:

"The Star" : For those who went out of their way to help a lot of people and spread goodwill along and beyond technical skills on DPC.

"The Honorary Mention" : For those who went out of their way to help at least a few and spread goodwill along and beyond technical skills on DPC.

This list will grow as the winners and nominees grow:

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"The Stars" in no particular order:
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[1] 09/10/2008: To Molly (

Hatchet), for reaching out to Barbara (

BAMartin ), and for being wonderfully supportive of many others. Please see this thread.
[2] 09/10/2008: To Roz (

Roz), for reaching out to Sherryl (

Sherpet) by lending her own camera selflessly, and for being there as a friend and a mentor when needed for many others. Reference thread.
[3] 09/10/2008: To Art (

Art Roflmao), for reaching out generously to many DPCers. Reference thread, Another reference thread.
[4] 09/11/2008: Judi (

Judi), for her community efforts during the Queensland Floods (2008), and for continually encouraging more commenting through the 100% commenter's club. Reference thread.
[5] 09/11/2008: To Sherryl (

Sherpet), for her help in offering multiple free DPC memberships for the ones in need, and for making more than twice the comments she received as of this date.
[6] 09/10/2008: To Deb (

melethia), for offering to lend her camera to the one in need, for making more comments than she received as of this date, and for being loved by so many.
[7] 09/16/2008: To Terry (

Clubjuggle), for his extraordinary efforts in helping Barbara get to her daughter in need by a spearheaded fundraising. Reference Thread. Terry received 57.14% votes for this position among 5 nominees.
[8] 09/16/2008: To Jeffrey (

levyj413), for his commendable efforts in offering comments, technical help, opinions, tutorials, and GTGs, and for being there for Jeanne in need. Reference Thread. Jeffrey received 42.85% votes for this position among 5 nominees.
[9] 10/27/2008: To Linda, (

ShutterPug), for pioneering the effort to help

SDW (Scott) and keeping him from selling what he loves: his camera. Reference thread. And for selling a camera by auction with the proceeds of which will go to

SDW. Reference Thread.
[10] 12/16/2008: To Eric (

Ericwoo), for lending Robert (

Bear_Music) a laptop for as long as he needs it, while recovering from his heart attack. Reference thread.
[11] 1/10/2009: To

Man_Called_Horse, for bringing information, websites, job opportunities, and more connections all the way around to this site for years. Refernces: Assignments Desk, Money Desk, Internship Desk, Bookshelf, The Shopper, The Photographer.

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"The Honorary Mentions" in no particular order:
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[1] 09/10/2008: To Sue (

Suemack), for her caring for the sick and elderly with special pets, and for making more comments than she received as of this date.
[2] 09/10/2008: To Waddy (

MelonMusketeer), for offering to lend his camera to the one in need, and for making more comments than he received as of this date, and for offering a free membership for the ones in need.
[3] 09/11/2008: To Magaly (

Maggye), for setting an example by posting more than 3 times the comments she received.
[4] 09/11/2008: To Jon (

outafocus), for offering a free DPC membership for the ones in need.
[5] 09/11/2008: To Chris (

codfish), for offering a free DPC membership for the ones in need, and for giving out more than twice the comments he received as of this date.
[6] 09/11/2008: To T. (

talj), for offering a free DPC membership for the ones in need.
[7] 09/11/2008: To Don (

posthumous), for giving out more than 3 times the comments he has received, and for encouraging and appreciating the images that win with our hearts rather than the ribbons.
[8] 09/16/2008: To Kat (

Katmystiry), for buying a new computer for Robert on Christmas when his old one was dying. 71.4% judges agreed to award this honor to Kat.
[9] 09/16/2008: To Karen (

KarenNfld ), for starting the member of the week thread to highlight and encourage fellow DPCers, and for winning multiple 100% comments awards. 71.4% judges agreed to award this honor to Karen.
[10] 09/16/2008: To Jason (

DrAchoo), for his efforts in helping replace Enzo's camera with fundraising. Reference Thread. 42.85% judges agreed to award this honor to Jason.
[11] 10/27/2008: To Edward (

K10DGuy) for promoting commenting in a helping yet fun way and bringing many many smiles. Reference Thread.
Another reference link.
[12] 10/27/2008: To Brad (

Brad) for selling his Tokina lens to raise funds to help Scott (

SDW). Reference thread.
[13] 12/16/2008: To [user]pawdrix[/user], for taking the time out to click a photo of the day on the Kodak screen at Times Square in NYC that

KarenNfld appreciated very much. Reference thread.
[14] 12/17/2008: To

spiritualspatula (Derek), for sending his personal camera to Slippy (

StrikeSlip) for his kids on Christmas. Reference thread.
[15] 12/17/2008: To

BAMartin (Barbara), for sending her personal camera to Slippy (

StrikeSlip) for his kids on Christmas. Reference thread.
[16] 12/22/2008: To

Chromeydome, for giving a free membership away to Claire (

lovethelight). Reference thread.
[17] 1/10/2009: To

dirt_diver (Joe), for his great giving of time and brain cells to run and do the stats for the DPC Olympics. Reference thread.
[18] 1/10/2009: To

Jutilda, for this year's Christmas DPC Wishlist, she was one of the most generous human beings, fulfilling Christmas wishes of several DPC members. Reference Thread.
[19] 1/10/2009: To [user]Mr_Pants[/user], for gifting

Art Roflmao a membership in October'08 without any fanfare, and for gifting

yospiff's daughter a membership. He has participated in many SP side challenges with amazing images and has always provided guidance and instruction on his techniques. Reference Thread.

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Nominations (awaiting consideration by the judge's panel (please see the rules)):

... Please nominate more deserving fellow DPCers in this thread and they will show up here....
... As soon as there are at least a few nominations available here, a decision will be ...
... made by the judge's panel. Please see the rules above. ...

[1]

Smardaz, for giving away a printer. Reference thread.
[2]

TrollMan, for giving away a year's membership. Reference thread.

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The Judges Panel

Here are our esteemed judges, who agreed to take some time off their busy lives every week to help decide on converting the nominations to awards.
The names/identities have been hidden intentionally. They are (in no particular order):

[1] Member since 2009, (Cory) a more recent memeber than some of the others, but has still garnered two dozen favorites from peers.
[2] Member since 2004, made almost 5000 comments till date, has numerous ribbons and many entries favorited.
[3] Member since 2002, a wonderful human being who sticks to the values, work favorited more than 180 times.
[4] Member since 2004, a scintillating photographer, DPC acclaimed, work favorited more than 1000 times.
[5] Member since 2007, an amazing enthusiast whose work has been favorited over 20 times.

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Congratulations to all the nominees and the winners!

Please nominate deserving fellow DPCers as we slowly honor them.

Rules

[1] Effective 9/11/2008, there will be two ways we will honor the extraordinary:

- We are accepting nominations at any time in this thread (with a reference link to thread(s) that support the nomination).

- We may dig through old threads to look for extraordinary contributions, and add nominees ourselves.

[2] Depending upon the strength of a nominee's contributions and the outreach, we will decide whether they belong to the "Star" award category, or the "Honorary Mention" category, by a judge's panel.

[3] An honorary mention can again be nominated for the award in future weeks, with supporting thread references, by a person who hasn't nominated the candidate in question before.

[4] The nominees (if any available) will be considered for awards the week of the most recent nomination.
The results will be announced during the week following the nomination week.
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09/06/2010 07:23:28 PM · #2

Update...

First, I would like to apologize for the slow restart of this thread. Sometimes life gets in the way.

Second, two new rules. We will close the nominations at the 15th of each month, and announce new winners at the beginning of the following month.

09/06/2010 07:35:31 PM · #3

This month's awards will be announced before rollover tomorrow...