[awards-program] 1/3 Meeting Notes

[Bonnie Corwin]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Alta Elstad wrote:
> 
>>Excellent questions and we need to get them resolved within the next few days. 
>>People on this list: Please call in to the meetings or reply on this list. We 
>>talked about allowing binary entries. What do you think? What kinds of entries 
>>do we want? Is fixing a bite-sized bug an entry? Sun employees are not allowed 
>>to help. What if someone asks a question on a forum and a Sun employee answers? 
>>We can't prevent that; do we need to try to track it? What a nightmare.
> 
> 
> What do you mean Sun employees are not allowed to help?   Given the current
> situation where doing almost anything requires a Sun employee inside the
> firewall to sponsor for you, there's no point in having a contest if Sun
> employees can't help.
> 

I think it depends on what the contest asks for.

With respect to code, the contest does not have to require that code 
submissions to the OpenSolaris project (as opposed to standalone 
applications) be integrated into a code base to be valid submissions, 
for example.

The contest could simply require that code be delivered in some form 
(source, binary or both, presumably along with documentation, and that 
judges determine whether the code 'works'.  It can be left to some later 
date to determine whether any/all of the code submitted should be 
integrated into particular project or consolidation gates.

I read Alta's comment above as meaning that Sun employees are not 
allowed to help people create their entries - providing design help or 
reviews or whatever.

Bonnie