[advocacy-discuss] Motivating Contributions (was Proposal for OpenSolaris Mentoring Program)

[Brandorr]

On 10/4/07, Bill Rushmore <bill at rushmores.net> wrote:
> Jim Grisanzio wrote
> > Yah, I had the same experience the year before on SoC. And, quite
> > frankly, it's been challenging in other parts of OpenSolaris to get
> > people involved as well. I had very little response to writing articles
> > and other non-technical activities, for instance. And it's been
> > challenging to grow new user groups, too, since we have no resources to
> > offer (shirts, kits, etc). So, I'm not sure what I can offer to motivate
> > people. All I have are projects and lists. :)
> >
> >
>
> I think there is one thing that Sun can do that might help contributions
> outside of Sun interested more in the OpenSolaris project.   People
> contributing to OpenSolaris should see doing so would be a career
> enhancing move.  After all, people are not likely to contribute if they
> don't see any benefit for them.  In my opinion Sun (and others) should
> use the contributors of the community as a resource for  recruiting
> people.  For example, looking for a student who is interested in
> operating systems to join the Solaris team? Need someone to port a
> driver for you?  Need a top notch Sys Admin?  Find them in the
> OpenSolaris community and when you do find them make sure people know
> about it.
>
> Do you realize that several months ago we started a OpenSolaris job list
> and we have not a single post to the list?  The first place a Sun HR
> recruiter should be going to look for a new hire is right here to the
> community.  I went to www.sun.com/jobs and just for the US I searched
> for "OpenSolaris" and I got back 99 hits.  So why not a single post to
> the OpenSolaris job list?  Where else would Sun find people anymore
> dedicated?  I believe that there have been a few people hired from the
> community but it was never really publicized heavily. It should, make a
> big deal about the fact that people that make great contributions get
> recognized.

I think this issue is that many people know about the list. I think
that is partly due to the fact that it isn't widely advertised. I
suspect there is some conflict as to the appropriateness of the list,
as I have heard people say that stuff should stay on LinkedIn, dice,
monster, etc.

(I don't think it is integrated with Jive)

> Bill
> rushmores.net
>
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