[osol-mktg] Re: Recognition Idea (was part of anniversary discussion)

[Jim Grisanzio]

> 
> > In the spirit of Laura's suggestion to include the
> user IDs on the
> > anniversary tshirt, I got to thinking of ways of
> showing recognition for
> > community members. I've included website-discuss
> since this would
> > involve site changes.
> >
> > Visualize a tag cloud. The cloud includes user IDs
> instead of tags and
> > shows visually who is the most active (by that ID
> being the largest) on
> > certain projects or within certain communities.
> There can be different
> > "clouds" for each.  These "clouds" could be page
> headers or sidebars.
> > Sara
> >
> 
>   Something about this idea .. feels wrong.
> Guys like Ben Rockwood don't make a lot of noise on
>  the OpenSolaris site
> ut he is clearly a huge voice to be heard.  I make a
> lot of noise but am
> not necessarily a great contributor.  Guys like Rich
> Teer are rarely heard
> from but he is a real leader and has been for many
> years.
> 
> For whom do we speak ? OKay .. I am not a pinko
>  socialist type yet I think
> hat putting up particular individuals names on the
> website or a T-shirt
> is not hitting the right audience?  Isn't that like
> "preaching to the
> choir" while people wander lost and unsaved out there
> in the streets ?


I actually like the tag cloud idea. We'd have to be careful how it would be designed since tag clouds are sometimes pretty ugly. But it's all very Web 2.0 and all. :) I think a lot of people would get a kick out of it, though.

However, Dennis brings up a really good point -- many people who have massive credibility will not necessarily show up on this system. Personally, I'm ok with that. No one tool solves all problems in all situations. We'd probably need several different ways to measure and recognize people for their good work. 

The larger issue for me, though, is this: just how do you visibly measure reputation/credibility when many times it's the most credible ones who don't care about the attention, and everyone else already knows who is credible in the first place? I was asking this question a while back: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris?entry=everyone_knows I still don't have a a good answer, and this dynamic still fascinates me.

Jim
 
 
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