New senior awards process.#135
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Defines a single source for the senior-awards nomination package (five-item list, nomination cap, supporter expectations under the new email Q&A model). Senior award pages and the guidelines page will invoke this shortcode so the same content lives in one file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds /awards/guidelines/ as the central nominator handbook. Contains general principles for writing strong nominations, the package shape for each SIGSOFT people award (senior, dissertation, ECR, Anger, Impact Paper), shared eligibility rules, and pointers to per-award evaluation criteria. The senior-awards subsection invokes the senior-package shortcode added in the previous commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switches the three senior-award links from www2.sigsoft.org to internal Hugo paths so visitors land on the local pages. Replaces the inline "Shared Nomination Requirements and eligibility" section with a short pointer to /awards/guidelines/, since that page now carries the package contents and eligibility rules. Deadlines, benefits, committee leadership, contacts, and the past-recipients pointer stay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each of Outstanding Research, Distinguished Service, and Influential Educator now carries an Evaluation criteria section with bulleted per-award axes (research impact / practical impact / innovation; community leadership / community infrastructure / scope and reach; direct educational contributions / educational materials / mentorship) and a Nomination package section that invokes the senior-package shortcode. Pages also gain a short header pointing to the guidelines page for general advice. Recipient lists and committee rosters stay intact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both pages point to /awards/guidelines/ for general nomination advice. The ECR page additionally links to the existing SIGSOFT ECR Award FAQ on Medium for context. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The inline package enumerations on these pages now live on the guidelines page. Replace each with a short pointer to /awards/guidelines/. Award context (Anger's cross-disciplinary mission and biography; Impact Paper's eligibility window, FSE keynote, and recipient history) stays in place. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Drop senior-nomination cap from the shortcode. - Cut the "What supporters can expect" section from guidelines (the senior expectation was already in the senior-package shortcode; junior letter expectations are implicit in the junior package subsection). - Fix typos: paragrph -> paragraph, widley -> widely, "competent software engineering research" -> "researcher". - Remove the duplicate eligibility sentence on the Anger page. - Lowercase "service" mid-sentence in the Distinguished Service evaluation criteria intro. - Correct "Distinguished Volunteer Certificate" name on the landing page. - Point the dissertation page at the guidelines page instead of the outdated "main awards page" reference for shared package details. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Updates the SIGSOFT Awards documentation to reflect a new Senior Awards nomination process (single nomination statement, structured evaluation criteria, and “supporters” rather than pre-written letters), and consolidates shared guidance into a dedicated guidelines page.
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- Added a reusable Hugo shortcode for the senior-awards nomination package description.
- Added a new “Awards Guidelines” page and updated award pages to reference it (plus added evaluation-criteria sections for senior awards).
- Refreshed/normalized various award-page text formatting and links.
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| layouts/shortcodes/senior-package.html | New shortcode to standardize senior-awards nomination package text across pages |
| content/awards/sigsoftAwards.md | Links to guidelines + updates senior-awards links and nomination section text |
| content/awards/outstandingResearch.md | Adds evaluation criteria section + uses new senior-package shortcode |
| content/awards/influentialEducator.md | Adds evaluation criteria section + uses new senior-package shortcode |
| content/awards/distinguishedService.md | Adds evaluation criteria section + uses new senior-package shortcode |
| content/awards/guidelines.md | New consolidated guidance/criteria + nomination-package requirements + eligibility rules |
| content/awards/impactPaper.md | Points nomination-package details to guidelines page |
| content/awards/earlyCareerResearcher.md | Adds guidance link(s) to guidelines and Medium FAQ |
| content/awards/dissertation.md | Points shared nomination-package details to guidelines page + minor formatting tweaks |
| content/awards/anger.md | Points nomination-package details to guidelines page + minor formatting tweaks |
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| - **[Distinguished Service Award](/awards/distinguishedService/)** - Recognizes | ||
| dedicated and important service to the software engineering community | ||
| - **[Outstanding Research Award](https://www2.sigsoft.org/awards/outstandingresearch/)** - Honors | ||
| - **[Outstanding Research Award](/awards/outstandingResearch/)** - Honors | ||
| significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of | ||
| software engineering |
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| - **[Influential Educator Award](/awards/influentialEducator/)** - Celebrates | ||
| significant contributions and impact on software engineering education as a | ||
| teacher, mentor, researcher, author, and/or policy maker |
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| nomination will be deemed late and will not be considered in the current award year. | |||
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| For general guidance on writing a strong nomination, see the [Awards Guidelines](/awards/guidelines/) page. The [SIGSOFT ECR Award FAQ on Medium](https://sigsoft.medium.com/acm-sigsoft-early-career-researcher-award-faq-610cee4452fb) provides additional information on eligibility, evaluation considerations, and other questions that come up frequently for this award. | ||
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| We have a blog post that covers certain [Frequently Asked Questions for the Early Career Researcher Award](https://sigsoft.medium.com/acm-sigsoft-early-career-researcher-award-faq-610cee4452fb). |
| 1. The nominee's name, affiliation, and contact information. | ||
| 2. The nominee's CV. | ||
| 3. A proposed citation of up to 25 words. | ||
| 4. A nomination statement of 500-1000 words. Consult the awards' description for evaluation criteria to use to focus the nomination. |
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I feel that usually we do not modify html file. Why do we need to modify this html file?
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[sorry for not seeing this until now!] This is a "shortcode" HTML file that I then use/insert on the senior awards main pages. That is, the package content for senior awards nominations are all the same, so I just wrote the contents once. See for example: https://github.com/acmsigsoft/acmsigsoft.github.io/pull/135/changes#diff-e9bc7082c68f6d5351cdbb12bc39edf36dabd52e5046a598d2e2cc361721991bR26
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Modifies awards pages to document the new Senior Awards Process to the best of current ability. Key changes: single nomination statement, criteria to suggest structure to that statement, and prospective supporters rather than up-front letter writers. Added a "guidelines" page to consolidate some advice and the content on the awards process/structure.
Content may evolve slightly when we consider the HotCRP submission form and whether/how it should be modified to reflect the new process, and/or when the senior awards chair chimes in.
Some spacing fixes thrown in. Thanks, Claude (only slightly sarcastic).