Feedback request: OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge Grants

[Tom Marble]

Fabien DUMINY wrote:
> Tom Marble a écrit :
>> What if we chose all 5 judges from Sun employees -- who are not
>> qualified to apply anyway?
>>   
> What do you think about that ?
> - first step : we let people wanting to be judge propose their candidacy
> - second step : after some delay, if there is more than 5 candidates,
> the community will vote for them.
> 
> of course, we could impose more contraints like :
> - there must some judges from sun
> - the candidates must know well the code base, as tom said
> but I am not sure how we can deal with these points.

My concern is that we have some fixed dates for the contest
and that if we vote to have judges vote on the contest it
will risk taking too long.

However, in the event that my guess is incorrect, it would
be worthwhile to take an informal poll.  If any of you
(non-Sun) OpenJDK developers would consider judging the
Awards contest please let me know.  Based on the number of
responses in the next couple of days we should have a sense
of how many external judge candidates there are.

Thanks,

--Tom