I think we can add one more:

Designer (user interface, system....)

Your suggestions are great though :)

-Ghee

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 20/11/2007, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>   
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> On 20/11/2007, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Brian Nitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Contributions to the OpenSolaris desktop community can be any of the
>>>>> following:
>>>>> *1. Developer *
>>>>> *2. QA *
>>>>> *3. Doc Writer *
>>>>> *4. Translator *
>>>>> *5. Deployer *
>>>>> *6. Evangelist *
>>>>> *7. Facilitator *
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Should there be another one for UI/Graphics Designer for contributors
>>>> like Calum & the xDesign guys?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> How about "Architect" or "Designer" ?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Architect is too ambiguous, and gives me images of Calum being the guy
>> from The Matrix.
>>     
>
> How do you know he isn't? :)
>
>   
>> HCI?  UI Design?  UED (User Experience Design)?
>>     
>
> Well, I think the key thing is to have a generic role to describe
> these. Otherwise, you're going to end up with lots of different
> possible roles and make the application process a little more
> difficult.
>
> I'll use the (inevitable) example Ubuntu page here:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
>
> They've split up getting involved into four categories:
>
> * Development
> * Documentation
> * Design
> * Support
>
> I've run a little wild with my own artistic license and come up with this 
> list:
>
> * Builder ( sys admin, etc. )
>
> * Designer ( art, ui, system architecture, etc. )
>
> * Developer ( code )
>
> * Herald ( advocacy, announcements, etc. )
>
> * Scholar ( governance, documentation, web pages, translation, general
> knowledge, etc. )
>
> * Support ( qa, mailing list moderator, etc. )
>
>   


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