Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 23:24, Michelle Olson wrote: > >> On 04/27/09 07:10, Simon Phipps wrote: >>> >>> I propose to buy three $25 Kiva gift vouchers (assuming we don't >>> pass another $25 threshold between now and then) and bring them to >>> CommunityOne. How do people think we should distribute them? If the >>> OGB was giving recognition this year, we /could/ offer them as >>> awards to the top three recognised contributors. >> >> I really like this idea, I think you should go for it. I'm not sure >> what you mean by top three recognised contributors above (are these >> contributors to the lending project itself or to the overall OSOL >> project?), but no matter what/whom we decide to recognise, I think it >> might be a great way to wrap-up our townhall meeting. > > I'd like to do that, but I'd not want to be arbitrary about the > awardees. Do we have time to schedule a recognition ballot of the core > contributors before then? Such a thing would look a whole lot like an > OGB election with write-in candidates...
I'm not sure we have time or resources for that type of poll because we are one months from the release. But, we could brainstrom some other possibilities... For example, we could award the best lightening talk by a community member (they will go on all day on June 1st), we could award the best 'OGB wall' suggestion (maybe not worth $25, but still would be fun), we could award the most prolific package contributor (since this is a new contrib. program) and highlight the new packages from that individual, we could award most innovative community contribution to the Sun OSOL distro, etc. Maybe these ideas are still too arbitrary? I'd prefer awards for non-Sun individuals, but that is my personal criteria. Thanks, Michelle
