Hi, guys.
We are 7 months into the project now, we are entering a new year, and I
think it's time start recognizing community members who are contributing
and participating in OpenSolaris. If you have an opinion on this, read
on ...
There's a lot going on around here. More than 10,000 people have
registered on the site, thousands are talking on the mail lists and
blogging, 33 communities have formed with another 25 or so user groups
on top of that, and people are presenting at conferences all over the
world (and we are archiving those presentations on the user group
community). Also, we've been getting a steady flow of code contributions
to the request-sponsor program, and we are recognizing those community
members here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/
as well as in emails to opensolaris-discuss. That's just a first attempt
at recognition, though.
So, what can we do to start recognizing more people more consistently?
And what is a reasonable list of items to recognize? Code for sure, but
we have other community members participating within
communities/projects, running user groups, going to conferences, helping
with booth duty when Sun has a big presence someplace, creating
distributions, blogging, talking to reporters and analysts, answering
questions on lists, taking pictures, making videos, writing docs,
building mirrors, working on co-development and governance plans, etc.
What else? And how do we recognize all that?
What I'd like to do is to eventually have a system where we as a
community recognize our contributors so they can build reputation over
time. I don't think we've really discussed this at length since we
opened. This is mentioned briefly in the governance draft, too, but we
don't have to wait for a full system to be in place to start the process
of recognizing people. I expect it to evolve, so why not start?
I'd love to work on this. Any thoughts?
Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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