[awards-program] 1/3 Meeting Notes

[Alta Elstad]

I thought this came to us from higher up, but I looked in the PDF on the bottom 
of the contest planning page 
(http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Community_Innovation_Awards) 
and I do not see this requirement. All I see is "The entry must be the Entrant’s 
original work, created solely by the Entrant." So how much can a Sun employee 
help before that person would be collaborating on the entry? I don't think 
sponsorship of a putback counts. I think the contest entry would be the part 
that was submitted for sponsorship. Perhaps we will accept some types of entries 
that will never be submitted for integration. Application ports, documentation.

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.