[awards-program] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Preamble draft and my brainstorm rules]]

[Jesse Silver]

Expanded version:

" ...recognize and award outstanding Submissions which
demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance
uses of Open Solaris, or constitute a substantial contribution to the OpenSolaris community.
Participants in this Contest will begin by declaring a problem statement and proposing a solution.
Proposals may be framed within the context of a business proposition, or could simply be a description of the solution,
and can be either for profit or altruistic motives.  Participants, must then submit their solution,
with a requirement that any software component(s) execute on an OpenSolaris(TM) based operating enviornment...."



Jesse Silver wrote:
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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: [Fwd: Re: [awards-program] Preamble draft and my 
> brainstorm rules]
> Date: 	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:20:51 +1300
> From: 	Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM>
> To: 	Jesse Silver <Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM>
> CC: 	Team Indiana <teamindiana at sun.com>
> References: 	<476ADEBF.4010104 at sun.com>
>
>
>
> Hey,
>
> So as per our phone call earlier, here's my comments - most of them are
> specifically due to this first paragraph comes across.
>
> > 1.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST:
> > 
> > The [OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Contest] is designed to ...
> > 
> >   " ...recognize and award outstanding Technical Submissions which
> >   demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance
> >   uses of Open Solaris.  Participants in this Contest will
> >   begin by declaring a problem statement and proposing a solution.
> >   Proposals must  be framed within the context of a business proposition.
> >   and can be either for profit or altruistic motives.  Participants,
> >   must then submit a technical implementation of their solution whose
> >   software component(s) must execute on the OpenSolaris(TM) Operating
> >   Environment...."
>
> I think this is both too formal, too focused on technology (or cutting code),
> and too 'business' focused. We need to encourage the community feel, that we're
> all part of a global mesh of cultures, all excited in working on OpenSolaris as
> a set of technologies, and see that success grow. I can see why you'd want to
> mention that business proposals are acceptable, but really this is a community
> program, and we should encouraging all shapes and sizes, all colours, and all
> languages.
>
> I think the idea of submitting a problem statement is a great way to express an
> interest in the program (and I think everyone should do that right at the
> start), and then follow it up with a solution - whether that's a set of code, a
> bunch of documents, or whatever.
>
> In terms of actual code, we probably need to figure out whether success is
> judged on actually integrating that code, or just providing it as part of the
> 'solution'. The rules may want to address that in some way. Is request-sponsor a
> requisite for example?
>
>
> Glynn
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