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

[Sara Dornsife]

Bill Rushmore 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 didn't realize this list existed. In order for Sun HR to know, someone 
would have to tell them. Where is the list? I did a very quick search, 
but couldn't find it.
Sara


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