Date:         Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:19:28 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Rhoads <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Mike Rhoads <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Reminder - last week for 2008 SAS-L award nominations
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Please don't forget to nominate deserving SAS-Lers for our
annual awards.  The deadline is JANUARY 22 (next Tuesday).

In particular, we need nominations for deserving SAS Institute
tech support staff for the SPORTY (see below).  If you
don't personally work with tech support, please consider
checking with those at your site who do, to see if they
can identify any deserving candidates.

Mike Rhoads
Westat
RhoadsM1@Westat.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Rhoads
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:00 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: 2008 SAS-L awards and BOF -- open for nominations


TO:       All SAS-L participants
FROM:     SAS-L BOF Planning Committee (members listed at bottom)
USBJECT:  2008 SAS-L awards and BOF -- open for nominations

2008 -- a year of change.  The first outdoor National Hockey League
game played in the United States.  A brand-new version of SAS.  The
election of a new U.S. president.  The first World Series victory for
the Philadelphia Phillies since 1980 (OK, that may turn out to be a
little optimistic -- but what's a new year for anyway?)

One thing that WON'T change -- we are once again conducting the annual
SAS-L awards, and you may now submit your nominations!

You have until JANUARY 22 to get your nominations in.  We need your
nominations for:

   "Most Valuable SAS-Ler" (MVS)
   "SAS-L Rookie of the Year" (SASLROY)
   "SAS Institute Programming Omnibus Resource of the Year" (SPORTY)

Courtesy of Larry Hoyle, you can nominate (and later vote for) deserving
candidates at:
http://ires.ku.edu/~ipsr/SGF2008/saslbof.htm

Please include a short testimonial for your nominee (you will have the
choice of remaining anonymous if you desire).  A description of each
award
is provided later in this message.  If someone else beat you to the
punch by
nominating your favorite candidate, you may still add your own words of
praise.  These testimonials will be made available on the web site once
the
voting period starts.

As always, the winners will be announced and recognized at the annual
SAS-L
BOF (Birds of a Feather) get-together, held at SAS Global Forum (AKA the

conference formerly known as SUGI).  This year's meeting is scheduled
for
Monday evening, March 17:

What:  SAS Global Forum 2008 SAS-L BOF
When:  Monday, March 17, 2008
Where: Convention Center, room 212
Time:  7:00 - 8:00 pm

Keep an eye on SAS-L for more info.

Now for the award details ...

   "Most Valuable SAS-Ler" (MVS)

Nominees should be people whom you feel have contributed most
significantly
OVER THE LAST YEAR to this list.  Certainly there are MANY MANY MANY
people who are very valuable contributors to the list, but only the most
outstanding will qualify for MVS.  This year we will be recognizing one
or more winners, depending on the distribution of votes, and a scad of
runners-up.  What's a scad?  Easy.  All nominees make up the scad, and
will be duly recognized.

Note that current members of the SAS-L Hall of Fame (David Cassell,
Peter Crawford, Richard DeVenezia, Paul Dorfman, Toby Dunn, Ron Fehd,
Dale McLerran, Howard Schreier, Ian Whitlock) are not eligible for
nomination
as the MVS, in order to recognize some different people each year.  If
any former MVS winners also finish among the top vote-getters this year,
they will be inducted into the (drum roll please) SAS-L Hall of Fame.

    "SAS-L Rookie of the Year" (SASLROY)

SAS-L Rookie of the Year, or SASLROY ("SAS El Roy") nominations are for
a
person you recognize as making a significant contribution to discussion
on
SAS-L who is new to SAS-L.  This may have been by asking a thought
provoking
"newbie" question, starting a thread by providing a partial or "not
exactly
right" answer, or answering in a way that made us take a second look at
how
we approach problem solving in SAS.  Someone who got us all straining
those
little grey cells to come up with a more "exactly right" answer.
Sometimes
these folks get us thinking just by asking "why not?"

    "SAS Institute Programming Omnibus Resource of the Year" (SPORTY)

The "SAS Institute Programming Omnibus Resource of the Year" (SPORTY)
award
is for the SAS Institute staff person who has helped you the most with
technical support.  This is an opportunity for members of SAS-L to
formally recognize outstanding work of the SAS Institute staff in this
role,
by submitting comments about that special someone at SAS Institute.

Don't forget, we need to receive all nominations by

*** JANUARY 22 ***

Thanks for your support!   Please contact any of the committee members
listed below if you have questions about the awards or the BOF.  And
don't
forget to visit the SAS-L BOF page at sasCommunity:
http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/SAS-L_BOF

The SAS Global Forum 2008 SAS-L BOF Planning Committee,

    Ron Fehd (rjf2@cdc.gov)
    Jack Hamilton (jfh@alumni.stanford.org)
    Larry Hoyle (larryhoyle@ku.edu)
    Joe Kelley (jkelley@uga.edu)
    Mike Rhoads (RhoadsM1@westat.com)
    Dianne Rhodes (Rhodes.dianne@bls.gov)
    Bill Viergever (william@viergever.net)