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-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org