On Sunday July 4 2010 05:52:09 Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:30:08 Stephan Kleine wrote:
On Sunday July 4 2010 00:55:03 Rajko M. wrote: ...
"Registered member" is OK for voting. Being contributor and real person, is enough for that.
"Core member" must show more in some of our activities, with quantity, quality and persistence. ...
I'm totally against creating different levels of "members" since that just will open a bottomless can of worms why X is "only" a "member" while Y is a "super member" but X does more than Y, at least in the opinion of X or perhaps Z.
Sincerely I would live rather with a lot of contributors that sometimes have above problem, and deal on case by case basis, than without many contributors and no problems, as it is now.
Right, and that's why we are currently having a discussion about if "member" is the proper wording? (as in it is apparently already too hard to define some basic levels)
It is easy to miss that when Joe introduced Ambassador program number of active contributors jumped a lot. Problem is that lack of ideas what exactly to do with new people left many without direction and they left. Small thing, calling somebody openSUSE ambassador attracted a lot of people. Nothing to learn from this?
Point simply being is that you have the right to "vote" on certain targets of the project and that right should be exclusive to people who proved they are interested in said project by contributing. There is nothing that prevents anyone from joining but the lack of contribution. If you have some people wondering in what way they could contribute then fix the wiki page since there are loads of ways.
In the first post I mentioned that majority needs lead and visible incentives to be active. If we don't give them, someone will.
Also it reminds me too much of that forum style by rating people based on their post count (which doesn't say anything most of the times).
If you did not notice they had two ratings, one is by number of posts, the other is reputation, which is given by other users. In the new interface they have Rate This Thread, but personal rating, reputation, disappeared.
I am aware of that but it doesn't make it less retarded (and no, this isn't targeted at our forum but general forum style). To make it short: 1. any X class "contributor system" is plain retarded IMHO since it doesn't matter to the people who contribute. 2. if you start it I am out (but that is just me personally)
If you contribute in one way or the other and contribute enough you can apply for membership which gives you e.g. the right to vote....
Voting is just one thing that motivate people, but not all nor many.
And the other things that motivate people in your opinion are what?
"Distinguished contributor" would be someone that has no continuous activity, but when is active we can see that.
Which just leads to having some definition for being a "Distinguished contributor" which needs to draw the border to being a "normal member" - as in it doesn't bring anything but just enlarges the problem.
The intention is not to make people comfortable with "all are equal" status and do nothing. Whether you contribute, or not, you get your openSUSE download. What is your reward for more effort that you put in a distro? None.
So what? The download is provided for free and the mere fact that you download anything doesn't mean you contribute anything. Besides that all people are not equal. Some part contributes and therefore is a member or has the right to vote and the others haven't.
Distinguished, registered, core members get promotional DVDs, small presents, SLE, slx products, access to services, more publicity, formal recognition in shape of awards for accomplishments, travel expenses, that other don't. This is a bit more incentive to do more then it is now.
Right, that's why people e.g. got their free boxes for 11.2 as they got it for earlier versions? How about starting to revert the cut down of free boxes for people contributing to factory and then we see for the rest - as a start. I fully agree that some motivation wouldn't harm but that has nothing to do with the current subject.
IMHO people contribute cause they like to do so.
In ideal world that is so. In real you get what you pay for. No rewards, no activity.
I think you are misunderstanding something here ...
If they contributed enough they can apply for membership. And if they get declined now they can continue contributing and reapply later and then get admitted.
That is another point that we should change. Now we wait until someone apply and get bunch of applications from people that got it wrong and then when application is declined we expect that they stay with a project. I don't think so.
So make it clear to them what is required in the first place. If they move elsewhere cause their application has been declined cause they didn't do anything cause they considered being a member mandatory for contributing then there is certainly some communication failure but it has nothing to do with the idea of being a member. Also the requirements are clearly stated.
Proactive approach will be more successful, at least it will make wait list non existent. When you see someone contributing then approach him and offer registration. If offer is declined then good. Leave door open and let him/her apply when he/she feels ready.
Right, that certainly sounds objective </irony>.
I just don't see any problem with this and IMHO this whole discussion how to call it is somehow ridiculous and unnecessary - which is why I would like to suggest to rename "member" to "potato" and be done with it.
From packaging perspective I can't see any difference, but from social there is a big one.
Right, so fuck packaging and all go social since that would help .... I am still waiting for your reasoning why: 1. "member" is bad in the first place (besides some "forum member" can misunderstand it). 2. creating different levels of "membership" would do more good than harm. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org