[ogb-discuss] 2 year Anniversary Contributor Awards

[Simon Phipps]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 17:54, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> I'd therefore suggest that any awarding of "contributor awards"  
> consider _personal_ contributions, regardless of place of  
> employment.  However, work done on the behalf of a big company  
> (like Sun Microsystems) represents contribution by the employer,  
> not by the individual.  Such work therefore should be excluded.   
> (There may be other similar contributions from outside commercial  
> entities... I'm not sure.)

I was with you up to "however". All along the bootstrap process a  
constant concern has been to set up a community centred on  
OpenSolaris, without regard for the motivation for involvement. It  
seems a bad backward step at this stage to say that employees of big  
companies are excluded from recognition on any grounds.

Suggestion 1:
* Have open nominations for a fixed period by anyone registered on  
opensolaris.org, which have to be accompanied by a statement  
justifying the nomination (option: no self-nomination, nominees must  
have been registered before April 2007).
* Then put all the nominees on poll.opensolaris.org and have an open  
vote of all contributors + core-contributors.
* Give awards to the top N, where N is the number of physical awards  
the OGB is able to obtain from sponsors.

Suggestion 2:
This is ideal work for an Advocacy community, the OGB is supposed to  
be a exception-handling body.

S.