The annual RISC OS Awards poll undertaken by RISCOSitory on the RISC OS
Awards website is now open for votes.

The poll is once again being run later than ideal, but for the next
couple of months you are able to vote for your favourite piece of
software released or updated nominally during 2020 – or even just used
most often or found most useful – along with the project you found most interesting, and more besides.

For most of the categories there are up to six initial suggestions along
with a short text entry field. You can either choose one of the options
as presented, by selecting the relevant one, or you can use the text
field to vote for something else – to do this, just select the
‘alternative option’ and enter your choice in the text field.

While the options on the form will not change, these ‘alternative suggestions’ will be periodically reviewed, and – depending on their
number – some may be highlighted in posts on RISCOSitory, and on the RISCOSitory Twitter feed – to serve as ideas for others.

All of the categories also have a “No opinion” option, which is selected
by default – if you feel that you have no way to form an opinion in any
given category, you can leave this option selected rather than be forced
to vote for something.

The normal exception to this is the ‘Best overall contributor’ category, for which no suggestions have been made. For this category, there is
only the text field, which you can use to vote for whoever, or whichever company, you feel deserves recognition for their overall contribution to
the RISC OS platform. If you don’t want to vote for anyone in this
category, simply leave the field blank.

This year there is a second exception - the 'Best show or event'
category also has just a text field for your choice. This is because the
normal format lists all the main shows as options, but 2020 was an
unusual year because of the pandemic. Only one physical show took place,
and one online show - while some user group's brought their meetings
online, and opened them up for more people to attend. So for this
category, it seemed sensible to open the choices up more readily for
this wider range of options.

Combined with the awards poll is a simple survey, designed to form a
picture of the RISC OS landscape. While it is a part of the same overall
form, however, you can easily choose to skip the survey entirely, or
only answer those questions you feel comfortable answering: Every
question of the includes an “I’d rather not say” option, which is selected by default.

The voting form will remain online from now until the end of May at
least, giving you two months to make your choices and cast your votes,
with the results of the awards poll expected to be published some time
in late June.

To vote, please visit:

https://www.riscosawards.co.uk/

RISCOSitory on Twitter for when those alternative options are mentioned:

https://www.twitter.com/RISCOSitory

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Vince M Hudd
RISCOSitory - www.riscository.com


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