On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6 October 2013 16:57, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > How does it works on practice (yes, I had watch the videos) and how it >> > will change/improve current state of things? >> > >> >> There will be a site you can go to to view the current challenges, and you >> can work on them. Sort of like how you can go to JIRA, and find tickets to >> work on. The challenges can be created by the community. It's our way of >> saying "hey, if you love CouchDB and you want to help us out, these are >> some of the things you could do." >> >> The current state of things is that nothing very much happens. There is >> practically no marketing activity, and no co-ordinated attempts to promote >> CouchDB. So any sort of improvement or organisation here would be a good >> thing. >> >> >> > P.S. I feel that I had read post as "Do X for reward, not because you >> > likes/uses/develops/____ (fill the other) CouchDB". Am I wrong? >> > >> >> This isn't about bribing people to do things. If you're not interested in >> CouchDB, don't take part. >> >> Influtive is a way for people who are already very passionate about >> CouchDB >> to co-ordinate with each other and work towards goals that provide a >> meaningful benefit to the project. >> > > Hrm this seems a little rude. What about people very passionate and > interested in couchdb that don't want to be part of such system? > > >> >> The rewards system is our way of thanking them for helping out. And as I >> mention, can be as simple as them earning points in Influtive, and us >> giving them the occasional shout-out. >> >> > This system is quite odd and artificial. Why do we need to use a carrot to > encourage someone already passionate? Plus, who will choose these items? > > Why not simply having a TODO list, aka roadmap in which people can simply > pick an item on which they think they can can help? Using the mail, ml, > and irc then people could coordinate themselves around the item and let > other they are working on. > > > This was for the technical todo. I was also thinking of having a media kit that people can use for events, website and other. Fr the RT and co I definitely would prefer it based on the pure volunteering. While I also think we need to encourage this behaviour I would prefer to do it by proposing tools to do that easily. In one click. aka a +1 button, a "share this" link. such thing. There is something really odd an artificial in giving a reward to do such thing that makes me really uncomfortable. - benoit
