On 2011-04-07 Manu wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Andreas Jaeger
wrote: On Thursday, April 07, 2011 14:41:31 Kostas Koudaras wrote:
Still, who is a contributor? How to define it in an easy way?
Defining them... A good idea would probably be to ask people 'incharge' like e.g. Jos to make you a list for marketing contributors and so on... Those people should make you a list with those who contributed the most. Well that is the hard part and this is the best I can come up now, if I think something else I will get back to you.
Exactly this is one of the challenges: This process does not scale and will become unfair, we will forget some people this way that contribute great work - and we will for sure forgot to ask some teams to nominate their team members ;-(
That's why Jos proposed to use as list all openSUSE members - it's self- nominating, it's easy to collect etc...
I agree but some great contibutors do not apply on the list so along with this (the member list )can we not have a news item where we say if you think your contributions are important to the community, let us know (for non-members) and then set up a connect poll where people will vote for them.
Well, we could also announce the program in advance and tell everyone who isn't member yet but contributes to go through the membership process. That means a lot of work for the committee but it should work. Combined with "openSUSE members get a discount in the shop" we can automate the process - if you're indeed a member the shop can probably automatically check against a list and give people discounts. SO it wouldn't require a lot of manual work, be fair and. work throughout the year. I think that's the way to go.
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