[advocacy-discuss] Community Innovation Awards

[Brian Gupta]

One thing this may depend on is how active someone's sponsor is. I would
suspect many individual sponsors aren't know outside of their own sponsor.

Also, it seems that certain "Vendors" and "vendor teams" should be
rewarded/recognized for their financial contribution to the OpenSolaris
community. e.g - Intel, Emulex, AMD, Sun, etc.. (Although cash rewards may
be less appropriate.)

I think anyway we can encourage third party vendors to OpenSource their code
is a great thing.

Cheers,
Brian

On Dec 12, 2007 12:06 PM, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 12, 2007, at 09:01, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > These are of course absolutely critical areas to the success of
> > OpenSolaris,
> > but they generally aren't sources of "Innovation".   I could see
> > some work
> > there being innovative - creating a new driver framework like Nemo,
> > the IPS
> > work, or defining a new way to get documentation to users - but
> > just writing
> > a driver for a given device, porting/packaging an existing
> > application, or
> > writing documentation aren't breaking new ground.
> >
> > That's what confused me when the awards program I'd heard about
> > internally was
> > announced with the "Innovation Awards" title - the biggest
> > contributions we've
> > gotten from community members that aren't employed by a sponsor
> > like Sun or
> > Intel have been in areas like this (ksh93, the Emancipation
> > projects, Xorg
> > SPARC drivers), that have been focused on bringing OpenSolaris up
> > to parity
> > with either the existing closed bits of Solaris or other open source
> > platforms, not in taking OpenSolaris to places no one has ever gone
> > before.
>
> I'd not get too hung up on the naming for the scheme from Sun. We're
> given the award so that we can reward contribution that is of value
> to our community, that's the guiding principle. Having said that,
> encoyraging innovative contribution is no bad thing :-)
>
> S.
>
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