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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:29:26AM -0500, Youness Alaoui wrote: > Hello, > I'm planning a release of 0.97 for March 1st, if you all remember... And for > that matter, I'm thinking about > rewarding the team members who worked hard on amsn 0.97. We already talked > about this, we were thinking about > rewards, as in money compensation for every commit/feature/whatever, but I > think I have a much greater idea : > We'll be giving gifts! > I'm thinking about giving gifts to those who helped, and gifts to the most > active developers, maybe depending on > the work done, give appropriate gifts, I'm hoping for a "big gift", something > like the nintendo wii or psp, as > well as medium sized gifts and smaller gifts. > My idea is : > 1 "big" gift > 4 or 5 medium sized gifts > a lot of smaller gifts. > I'm thinking of something of the price range of the nintendo wii or psp for > the "big" gift, but it's a bit too > expansive too, but we'll see when the time comes... and giving that gift away > randomly to one of the most active > developers (depending on the workload, could be a randomly chosen person out > of the 5, 6 or 7 most active > developers). Then give medium sized gifts to the 5 most active developers (I > wonder if the one who won the big > gift should receive a medium sized one too, or should be 'disqualified'?), > gift ideas would be something like a > webcam, a 1GB usb flash stick, mp3 players, etc... and finally, smaller gifts > could be given, like for example : > http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/ or t-shirts, or whatever > little goodies... > What I think would just be great is to have a custom made t-shirt, with the > amsn logo which says something like > "I'm part of the team", or "I helped create aMSN v0.97" or something maybe > more funny :p, whatever that would > be, and have that shirt sent to all those who helped, any commiter, forum > super-power-users, Gus for his skins.. > but I think it would cost too much... so I really don't know, I just had all > those great ideas, and I would > like to have your opinions on this. > First, if anyone has an idea or something, it would be good to add it. then > it would be good to have all the > 'rules' in writting in the wiki. then decide on how to proceed. > I think it would be best if the list of possible gifts was created, then > those who deserve a gift would get to > choose one of the list, so you don't get a gift you didn't want. > Ok, I've set up a wiki page here : http://www.amsn-project.net/wiki/Gift_ideas > You can add gift ideas in there if you want, so we can build up a list, then > the 'winners' can choose from > there. > We could also decide on some gifts then randomly give to those who won, then > allow 'negociations' to start so > there can be a gift exchange, if you like someone else's gift and he likes > yours, you can exchange, etc... > > Just so you know, IIRC, the most active devels so far, in order of activity, > since revision 7500 (release of > 0.96 although commits to branch/trunk for 0.97 were done before the 0.96 > release...) are : > lephilousophe with 58 commits > kakaroto with 56 commits (this doesn't count the commits I was doing a local > svn repository when developing > libsiren) > vivia with 46 commits > scapor with 41 commits > tomhennigan with 24 commits > airadier with 22 commits > and billiob with 19 commits > > Again, if we check since revision 7342 (the date the ads were added to the > website), then it is : > kakaroto with 86 commits > lephilousophe with 69 commits > vivia with 68 commits > scapor with 41 commits > tomhennigan with 35 commits > airadier with 32 commits > and billiob with 21 commits > > When you also look at the effort given for the 0.97 in terms of participation > in the forums as well as the key > features, we have the OIM, voice clips, msn spaces, +stability. those > features were mostly worked on by : > kakaroto, lephilousophe, vivia, scapor, billiob. > Alvaro got included because of the translation, and I guess tomhennigan > because of patches and mac compatibility > issues. > > > So... Please add ideas to the wiki so we can all benefit from it... i also > found this link > http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/article.aspx?articleid=1228621 when I > was googling for "gift ideas for > developpers" so maybe you can get ideas from there... and tell me what you > think... > If you want to discuss anything, do it over the ML, don't use the discussion > page of the wiki, and don't write > anything in the wiki apart new gift ideas, don't delete other's ideas (you > can report here that someone posted > an idea with value 10000$ and I can decide whether to remove it), and you can > not change the rules or whatever > from the wiki, we'll discuss it here and I'll change it myself. > > I think this idea will be something that we'll all like better than giving > money based on commit/diff length, so > I hope everyone agrees to it. > > > p.s: I wonder how much it will cost, + the shipping :s but if necessary, I'm > willing to donate to help this gift > idea, as I think it's a good idea and people deserve to have some fun from > time to time, right? :) > > > KaKaRoTo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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