Great idea, Michael! I don't know how the voting should be handled. However, I want to start with a nomination: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Member_of_the_Week
Greetings Sven On Friday 28 March 2008 19:32:22 Michael Shiloh wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community