September 1st is the date to submit your entry in the 2007 Jerry Awards. For the 2007 Jerry Award competition we are going back to emphasizing How-To. We will have categories for Ongoing Projects, Short Term Projects (that will exist for less than a year), and for New Projects.

The purpose of the Jerry Awards is to encourage User Groups to get involved in Community projects. If your group is doing something within the community take this opportunity to write-up a How-To essay as to how your group is accomplishing or accomplished the task and have a chance of winning a monetary award for your efforts.

The judges will be provided with a ranking system where they will assign a certain number of points based on what a group is doing. A larger number of points will be give if their submission describes how they do what they do, in enough detail where another group can start a similar project in their city. Groups who have never won before will be given extra points to help level the playing field with established groups who "seem to win all the time."

Groups that have won multiple times will need to do an especially good job explaining exactly how they do what they do, in order to win this time, since groups that have never won before will have a leg up.

Visit the APCUG website (http://comservice.apcug.org/, http://reports.apcug.org/2007q3/5.htm, http://reports.apcug.org/2007q2/25.htm ) for complete details and information on previous winners of the Jerry Award, and email your entry to jerryaward2007@apcug.net. The Jerry Award will be up on September 1 for you to submit your entries. Procrastinators have until October 15, 2007 which is the absolute deadline to get their entries in. The judging period will run from November 1 until December 15, 2007, and if you entered and said that you would be willing to be a judge, that is when you will be given access to a private website with all of the entries.