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

[Laura Ramsey]

Bonnie Corwin wrote:

>Laura Ramsey wrote On 05/03/06 08:51,:
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>>Moazam Raja wrote:
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>>>Unfortunately, Stephen is right (not that he needed me to say so).
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>>>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!".
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>>>Not worth it.
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>>>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. 
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>>I think there are 30+ projects that are doing great stuff--and we'd just 
>>be highlighting one?
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>>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!
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>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.
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>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
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So, this is a good opening for another topic--on another thread--which 
is how do you do recognition / awards without hurting other's feelings.
Recognition is a very important aspect to the community --and while 
there will always be people who are "hurt" that their contributions are 
not noted, but there will be many more who are motivated by achieving 
recognition. 

>relevant?
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>-1 for names on a T-shirt - no matter how they are chosen.
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>If we want to highlight community instead of code, perhaps a list of
>communities and/or projects.  Or email aliases.  But not names.
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+1 this might be a great way to go. There's so much going on...and just 
highlighting one project wouldn't seem fair either.

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>Bonnie
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>>>-Moazam
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>>>On May 2, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
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>>>> 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?".
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>>>> -1 on people's names instead of code, at least for a community-wide
>>>> event.
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>>>> - Stephen
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>>>>* If you wanted to have awards, then I could see using award winners'
>>>> names in the background field.
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>>>>-- 
>>>>Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
>>>>stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
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