[opensuse-marketing] Contributor gifts
Hello, [please reply on the opensuse-project mailinglist!] Some time ago, we collected ideas for contributor gifts on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Contributor_gifts and also decided who should receive a gift - see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682098 (basically active members + GSOC students + an option to propose someone who contributed a lot, but isn't a member (yet)). I discussed with AJ today which items on the list would be possible and would make sense. That made list much shorter ;-) The contributor gifts should be something special/exclusive IMHO, not the "usual" stuff we hand out to visitors at conferences or stuff you can order via shop.o.o. I'd say the symbolic value is more important than the price - no gold bar with geeko embossing needed ;-) The narrowed down list contains these proposals: a) things you can touch - coffee mugs - caps - T-Shirt (not an exceptional idea, but people like them) - USB memory sticks (with bootable openSUSE) - openSUSE playing cards The design should be something special that is only available to contributors/members and should contain a hint that the person who wears/owns item is an openSUSE contributor/member. (Take the 11.1 "iContribute" t-shirts as an example.) The openSUSE playing cards are an idea on its own. While the easiest way would be to create "normal" playing cards and just replace king and queen with Tux and Geeko, having a special "openSUSE game" would be even better. (But that would probably also mean it won't be ready when we release 12.1.) When we send out a parcel, we can always add things like stickers, some promo DVDs and a cheat sheet poster. And of course a "thank you" letter. b) Awards at openSUSE conference for contributions in a few categories There would be some categories (for example marketing, packaging, development, bugreporting etc.), and the top-contributor in each category would receive a price. This price would be "bigger" and more personal compared to the items in a) The handling could be done similar to how KDE does Akademy awards: Winners from last year choose winners from next year; would only need 'starting up' for us (categories and winners). The only risk is that not everybody might love that sort of "paperwork" to choose next year's winners so we might need some volunteers as fallback. c) software SLE* license for free or at least a special price (a restriction to "updates only, without support" if you do it for free would be OK). The problem with this option is that not everybody needs a SLE* license. If we decide on one of those, then the next problem comes up: money ;-) At the moment there isn't a budget available, but AJ sees at least chances to get one. (We'll probably have to discuss the details after deciding which of the above we want to do - or if we spend the money for something totally different.) Beside the costs for the gifts itsself, we also have to keep shipment costs and customs in mind. This leads to another question: When/how often do we send a gift to a contributor? The options are: - at every release - once a year - (could even reduce shipment costs - people visiting the conference could get it there, so we have to ship only to those who can't come to the conference) - once when you become a member - call it a "member welcome package" ;-) (and of course the current members would also receive it) I'm open for feedback. What of the above do you think would make a good contributor gift? When/how often should we send one? Or shouldn't we send one at all and spend the money otherwise? There are also some good ideas in the wiki page would make good giveaways at conferences, trade fairs etc: - geeko-shaped paperclips - geeko/openSUSE pins - key fobs - lanyards - jellybaby geekos - someone (Klaas?) mentioned this idea at the conference, but the problem seems to be that producing the shape/form is expensive. The jellybybies itsself are quite cheap compared to that. @marketing team: feel free to use any of those ideas ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- [Loadbalancer vor Mailservern] Ausbauen, bei Ebay verhökern und die frei gewordene Zeit zusammen mit dem Ebay-Erlös in eine große Betriebsparty mit Cocktails anlegen. [Peer Heinlein in postfixbuch-users] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
I know I am not part of the Marketing team but I was thinking that
giving out a gift every release is a good one. It is a time when all
of use feel a great sense of accomplishment and it's a good time,
heart warm, when we could give someone one of these gifts. Maybe it's
too much money, but it sounded nice in my mind :D
Andy
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Christian Boltz
Hello,
[please reply on the opensuse-project mailinglist!]
Some time ago, we collected ideas for contributor gifts on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Contributor_gifts and also decided who should receive a gift - see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682098 (basically active members + GSOC students + an option to propose someone who contributed a lot, but isn't a member (yet)).
I discussed with AJ today which items on the list would be possible and would make sense. That made list much shorter ;-)
The contributor gifts should be something special/exclusive IMHO, not the "usual" stuff we hand out to visitors at conferences or stuff you can order via shop.o.o. I'd say the symbolic value is more important than the price - no gold bar with geeko embossing needed ;-)
The narrowed down list contains these proposals:
a) things you can touch
- coffee mugs - caps - T-Shirt (not an exceptional idea, but people like them) - USB memory sticks (with bootable openSUSE) - openSUSE playing cards
The design should be something special that is only available to contributors/members and should contain a hint that the person who wears/owns item is an openSUSE contributor/member. (Take the 11.1 "iContribute" t-shirts as an example.)
The openSUSE playing cards are an idea on its own. While the easiest way would be to create "normal" playing cards and just replace king and queen with Tux and Geeko, having a special "openSUSE game" would be even better. (But that would probably also mean it won't be ready when we release 12.1.)
When we send out a parcel, we can always add things like stickers, some promo DVDs and a cheat sheet poster. And of course a "thank you" letter.
b) Awards at openSUSE conference for contributions in a few categories
There would be some categories (for example marketing, packaging, development, bugreporting etc.), and the top-contributor in each category would receive a price. This price would be "bigger" and more personal compared to the items in a)
The handling could be done similar to how KDE does Akademy awards: Winners from last year choose winners from next year; would only need 'starting up' for us (categories and winners). The only risk is that not everybody might love that sort of "paperwork" to choose next year's winners so we might need some volunteers as fallback.
c) software
SLE* license for free or at least a special price (a restriction to "updates only, without support" if you do it for free would be OK). The problem with this option is that not everybody needs a SLE* license.
If we decide on one of those, then the next problem comes up: money ;-) At the moment there isn't a budget available, but AJ sees at least chances to get one. (We'll probably have to discuss the details after deciding which of the above we want to do - or if we spend the money for something totally different.)
Beside the costs for the gifts itsself, we also have to keep shipment costs and customs in mind. This leads to another question:
When/how often do we send a gift to a contributor? The options are: - at every release - once a year - (could even reduce shipment costs - people visiting the conference could get it there, so we have to ship only to those who can't come to the conference) - once when you become a member - call it a "member welcome package" ;-) (and of course the current members would also receive it)
I'm open for feedback. What of the above do you think would make a good contributor gift? When/how often should we send one? Or shouldn't we send one at all and spend the money otherwise?
There are also some good ideas in the wiki page would make good giveaways at conferences, trade fairs etc: - geeko-shaped paperclips - geeko/openSUSE pins - key fobs - lanyards - jellybaby geekos - someone (Klaas?) mentioned this idea at the conference, but the problem seems to be that producing the shape/form is expensive. The jellybybies itsself are quite cheap compared to that.
@marketing team: feel free to use any of those ideas ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz -- [Loadbalancer vor Mailservern] Ausbauen, bei Ebay verhökern und die frei gewordene Zeit zusammen mit dem Ebay-Erlös in eine große Betriebsparty mit Cocktails anlegen. [Peer Heinlein in postfixbuch-users]
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Hello all, I'm not an so active member for some time now due to personal reasons and free time shortage but I still try to follow the mailing lists and do some testing when I have the chance so I don't consider myself elegible for any of this. But I remember when I got the 11.1 T-Shirt and the DVD box for contributing on beta testing and doing translations over the 11.1 cycle. That was really welcome and the feeling that I was part of something and I could show that to my coworkers was special. I really enjoyed the flashlight as well with the geeko logo. So from the options bellow I would say that tshirt or the mug would be amazing with "openSuse member " inscribed on it or even the iContribute. Something that you can use on you day-by-day and display on your working cube and show your passion for the project. From a Software perspective I was elegible for a SLED 11.0 license because I was part of the Testing Core team but using it was just strange. I was on it for the openSuse not the SLED (but I felt that helping Novell was a way to show how much I appreciate their sponsorship on openSuse). For when and how to send I believe that a welcome package is a really good idea, but rewarding those who works to get openSuse out there on every cycle is important as well. So I would say early or on every cycle would be a good thing if budget allows. Best regards, Gabriel Em qui 20 out 2011, às 18:08:23, Christian Boltz escreveu:
Hello,
[please reply on the opensuse-project mailinglist!]
Some time ago, we collected ideas for contributor gifts on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Contributor_gifts and also decided who should receive a gift - see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682098 (basically active members + GSOC students + an option to propose someone who contributed a lot, but isn't a member (yet)).
I discussed with AJ today which items on the list would be possible and would make sense. That made list much shorter ;-)
The contributor gifts should be something special/exclusive IMHO, not the "usual" stuff we hand out to visitors at conferences or stuff you can order via shop.o.o. I'd say the symbolic value is more important than the price - no gold bar with geeko embossing needed ;-)
The narrowed down list contains these proposals:
a) things you can touch
- coffee mugs - caps - T-Shirt (not an exceptional idea, but people like them) - USB memory sticks (with bootable openSUSE) - openSUSE playing cards
The design should be something special that is only available to contributors/members and should contain a hint that the person who wears/owns item is an openSUSE contributor/member. (Take the 11.1 "iContribute" t-shirts as an example.)
The openSUSE playing cards are an idea on its own. While the easiest way would be to create "normal" playing cards and just replace king and queen with Tux and Geeko, having a special "openSUSE game" would be even better. (But that would probably also mean it won't be ready when we release 12.1.)
When we send out a parcel, we can always add things like stickers, some promo DVDs and a cheat sheet poster. And of course a "thank you" letter.
b) Awards at openSUSE conference for contributions in a few categories
There would be some categories (for example marketing, packaging, development, bugreporting etc.), and the top-contributor in each category would receive a price. This price would be "bigger" and more personal compared to the items in a)
The handling could be done similar to how KDE does Akademy awards: Winners from last year choose winners from next year; would only need 'starting up' for us (categories and winners). The only risk is that not everybody might love that sort of "paperwork" to choose next year's winners so we might need some volunteers as fallback.
c) software
SLE* license for free or at least a special price (a restriction to "updates only, without support" if you do it for free would be OK). The problem with this option is that not everybody needs a SLE* license.
If we decide on one of those, then the next problem comes up: money ;-) At the moment there isn't a budget available, but AJ sees at least chances to get one. (We'll probably have to discuss the details after deciding which of the above we want to do - or if we spend the money for something totally different.)
Beside the costs for the gifts itsself, we also have to keep shipment costs and customs in mind. This leads to another question:
When/how often do we send a gift to a contributor? The options are: - at every release - once a year - (could even reduce shipment costs - people visiting the conference could get it there, so we have to ship only to those who can't come to the conference) - once when you become a member - call it a "member welcome package" ;-) (and of course the current members would also receive it)
I'm open for feedback. What of the above do you think would make a good contributor gift? When/how often should we send one? Or shouldn't we send one at all and spend the money otherwise?
There are also some good ideas in the wiki page would make good giveaways at conferences, trade fairs etc: - geeko-shaped paperclips - geeko/openSUSE pins - key fobs - lanyards - jellybaby geekos - someone (Klaas?) mentioned this idea at the conference, but the problem seems to be that producing the shape/form is expensive. The jellybybies itsself are quite cheap compared to that.
@marketing team: feel free to use any of those ideas ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
Le 20/10/2011 22:08, Christian Boltz a écrit :
- once when you become a member - call it a "member welcome package" ;-)
I like this one
(and of course the current members would also receive it)
membership should *not* be lifelong, so the problem would not exist I like the "island" idea. :-) I think it's possible to buy (give ones name to) a star. We could think of something similar, but the problem is will a prolific contributor want to have his name made publicly valorized (a gift can be used anonimly). What we could do, for example is let the best contributor vote to choose the next private distro name (asparagus for 12.1). you see I think of gift one can be proud of, but that have a nearly nul cost. Contributor wall or pavement (print hands in concrete like hollywood), contributors of the year list on SUSE room :-) or on the end of the openSUSE home page... jdd NB: http://www.nameastar.com/index.html?placed_by=eBusiness&referrer=google&ad=name+a+star -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Christian Boltz
The narrowed down list contains these proposals:
a) things you can touch - coffee mugs - caps - T-Shirt (not an exceptional idea, but people like them) - USB memory sticks (with bootable openSUSE) - openSUSE playing cards
Out of these, I go 100% for the t-shirt. You can wear your pride in and out of FLOSS events which gives it a pretty broad use, and shipping seems to me easier than sending out a coffe mug, just an example. It could go with one or two stickers and the thank you letter in the same package. I wonder how many of us enjoy playing cards and wear caps most of the times. In size, a t-shirt is something much more visible.
The design should be something special that is only available to contributors/members and should contain a hint that the person who wears/owns item is an openSUSE contributor/member. (Take the 11.1 "iContribute" t-shirts as an example.)
Agree, 11.1 design was great but we might need to improve, as everything evolves so should it be.
b) Awards at openSUSE conference for contributions in a few categories
That's great, but how many of us would be in the position to attend the conference year after year? We could have some sort of "wall of fame" in the openSUSE website too.
c) software
SLE* license for free or at least a special price (a restriction to "updates only, without support" if you do it for free would be OK). The problem with this option is that not everybody needs a SLE* license.
An "updates only and no support" licence seems interesting, but again I am not sure how would that work from the developer point of view, will they need to add any special script to validate something or even from the business view point I have no idea if that'd be possible.
When/how often do we send a gift to a contributor? The options are: - at every release - once a year - (could even reduce shipment costs - people visiting the conference could get it there, so we have to ship only to those who can't come to the conference) - once when you become a member - call it a "member welcome package" ;-) (and of course the current members would also receive it)
I think once a year is the way to go and ship only to those who cannot attend the Conference, having in mind a lot of members/contributors live near by and can go there, chances are we can lowe the shipment costs. The "welcome package" can be given at the Conference itself or sent out by then, that still makes it a "welcome package", doesn't it? Bests regards. -- Ricardo Varas Santana http://ricardovs.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
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