On Monday 21 June 2010 21:58:28 DenverD wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The intended contributor: coders, documenters, designers, that sort of contributors -- literally *creators*. That exempts forum talkers, unless they can match to the creativity requirement.
do you recognize a distinction between "forum talkers" and "folks providing help/guidance/direction to new/needy users" [...]
Denver, have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Members, it includes: Continued User Support on any Communication Medium Forums are a communication medium and if somebody does heavy user support, this is something something that I see as a "continued and substantial contribution" to the project and thus I expect that the membership team would acknowledge, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126