Outcome

The TSC reviewed this proposal in May, 2023 and voted on it on May 11. 

The TSC agreed on the proposal to begin the award nominations at the RC milestone; however, they decided to not change the current categories.

Note that in not changing the categories, the TSC agreed with the policy of moving forward with awards if there are no nominations for a particular category, rather than extending the nomination period, as we've done in the past, in hope that there would be nominations.

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Introduction

Based on the slow pace of nominations, and the lack of nominations for some categories, there appears to be a lack of interest in the awards process recently.  We believe that this is due to two issues:

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We propose reducing the number of categories, using the nominations for the Kohn release as a guide.  There were no nominations in the following categories, so we suggest that they be eliminated:

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