My main headache with this recognition is setting it up in such a way that it's little overhead for all of us - and especially for our shipping folks.
Platinum, Premium or Emerald, Ruby, Diamond ) and areas for contribution (programming, admin, social networking& marketing, wiki maintainer, documetation, translating, bug fixing, tutorial builder, package maintainer, testers, etc.), It's another stuff wether It's possible to make recognition in areas (it will improve the people integration beyond coders) making a complet community.
If it's possible to give a special recognitions using voucher or discount (i.e. LPI certification, Books, etc.) will be a plus. The good part it does not need to send a package anywhere.;-)
These are my ideas at this moment. Hope is helpful. If you still thinking of a solution for what they can get, why not give
Am 08.04.2011 12:51, schrieb Andreas Jaeger: them access to SUSE Linux Enterprise for free? I mean, You can download a trial version of SLE or create your own with SUSE Studio, but you have to pay for support and updates. Why not talking to Novell, and ask their, for giving our contributors access to the SLE-update-repos and support channels for one year or so? It has no shipping costs (because everybody can download SLED or SLES) and they get something "(open)SUSE-alike". Of course, a "contributor-wall" would be great! A virtual wall (also known as a website....) for all the contributors with links to their blogs, what they´ve done for the project, and to their openSUSE-profile. just my $0.02 -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE http://www.opensuse.org Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org