[cab-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Anniversary activities

[Bonnie Corwin]

Laura Ramsey wrote On 05/03/06 08:51,:
> Moazam Raja wrote:
> 
> 
>>Unfortunately, Stephen is right (not that he needed me to say so).
>>
>>You could very well run into a situation where someone thinks "Hey, I  
>>submitted 12 bugs and my name wasn't picked but some guy who won a  
>>lottery got picked?! Forget this, I'm gonna go over to Linux/BSD  
>>development!".
>>
>>Not worth it.
>>
>>Someone else had mentioned using code from ZFS instead. Just make  
>>sure it doesn't have so many sleep() calls like the current code does  
>>though. 
> 
> 
> I think there are 30+ projects that are doing great stuff--and we'd just 
> be highlighting one?
> 
> Treating the names as recognition award for outstanding participation 
> and contribution could work, and it would encourage folks to get on next 
> years' t-shirt!

I really don't like the idea of names.  No matter how you do it - even
awards - someone will feel left out, and the bad feelings just aren't
worth it when we're trying to build the community - not separate it into
factions.

Even with awards, there's no way to do it that won't annoy someone -
most code contributions?  To what?  ON?  What about projects that are
under development that haven't integrated into a consolidation yet?  We
don't yet have a way to track those contributions.  How do you actually
measure contributions like evangelizing?  The most time spent on
conferences?  The most blog posts?  How do you decide a blog post is
relevant?

-1 for names on a T-shirt - no matter how they are chosen.

If we want to highlight community instead of code, perhaps a list of
communities and/or projects.  Or email aliases.  But not names.

Bonnie
> 
> 
>>
>>-Moazam
>>
>>
>>
>>On May 2, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  Whereas 20 lines of code won't make the other millions of inanimate
>>>  statements feel left out, picking 50 people, by however fair a  
>>>method,
>>>  probably will make some of the other 12 000 wonder "why not me?".
>>>
>>>  -1 on people's names instead of code, at least for a community-wide
>>>  event.
>>>
>>>  - Stephen
>>>
>>>* If you wanted to have awards, then I could see using award winners'
>>>  names in the background field.
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
>>>stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
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>>
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