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

[Glynn Foster]

Hi,

Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> 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?

You'd be surprised how easy it is. You could just get the community to 
vote, much like the current OPG People's Awards.

We've got one award in GNOME, 'The Thank You Pants' [1] which get passed 
on each year to someone who has excelled within the community - whether 
technical, or social. That person is picked by the previous winner of 
the pants. It probably costs more money to put them in a suitcase each 
year and bring them to GUADEC our yearly conference. It's a nice way of 
keeping it fun, and thanking people who do great things, without any 
financial overhead.

Similarly for the 'Rusty Wrench' that gets passed each Linux.conf.au for 
community building.


Glynn

[1] 'Pants off' being a relatively famous catchphrase within our
     community