On Apr 17, 2007, at 17:54, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I'd therefore suggest that any awarding of "contributor awards" > consider _personal_ contributions, regardless of place of > employment. However, work done on the behalf of a big company > (like Sun Microsystems) represents contribution by the employer, > not by the individual. Such work therefore should be excluded. > (There may be other similar contributions from outside commercial > entities... I'm not sure.)
I was with you up to "however". All along the bootstrap process a constant concern has been to set up a community centred on OpenSolaris, without regard for the motivation for involvement. It seems a bad backward step at this stage to say that employees of big companies are excluded from recognition on any grounds. Suggestion 1: * Have open nominations for a fixed period by anyone registered on opensolaris.org, which have to be accompanied by a statement justifying the nomination (option: no self-nomination, nominees must have been registered before April 2007). * Then put all the nominees on poll.opensolaris.org and have an open vote of all contributors + core-contributors. * Give awards to the top N, where N is the number of physical awards the OGB is able to obtain from sponsors. Suggestion 2: This is ideal work for an Advocacy community, the OGB is supposed to be a exception-handling body. S.
