Dear community,
I'd like to initiate a weekly poll for you, our community, to nominate a
fellow community member who has contributed substantially to the
project, whether an application, a bug fix, testing work, How-To guide,
whatever.
The intent is clearly to identify and appreciate those of you who have
made and continue to make substantial contributions, and also to
encourage that extra bit of work required to turn a good application
into an excellent one, with a nicely polished GUI, a well written user
guide, etc.
There is also an important open source philosophical point to this: As I
speak at many public events, I am often asked to justify the open source
nature of this project, and specifically how the community contributes
to the project. I try to keep up with everything you all do, but the
amount is so high that I'm sure I'm missing many important contributions.
This poll will allow you to bring to my attention work I may have missed.
I emphasize that this is not limited to applications or in fact software
at all.
I'm not sure if it makes more sense to do this on the wiki or the
website, but I'd like to try doing this on the wiki first. I think our
community is sufficiently honest and respectful that we don't need
elaborate checks to make sure people aren't voting more than once.
Perhaps all that is needed is a wiki page with a table with 3 columns:
Nominator (your name or nickname), nominee (who you are voting for) and
reason.
At the end of the week the winner gets a T-shirt from
http://128333.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/ and a new poll takes place.
Thoughts?
Can someone set up such a wiki page?
Once we iron out the details and the wiki page is set up I'll announce
this on the "announce" list.
Thanks,
Michael
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