Perhaps gamify the tagging process? By inverting the tagging convention from something negative to something positive like "sponsored-by-company-x", you're offering bragging rights to companies that are the sole sponsors of projects. "Here's a list of projects that Company X directly supports, exclusively." It's a marketing advantage: they're the experts on the project, etc. For successful projects, diversification happens naturally. I see no benefit from casting such projects in a negative light.
The TC can view the same tag with a more critical eye. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Joshua Harlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was reading over the TC IRC logs for this week (my weekly reading) and I > just wanted to let my thoughts and comments be known on: > > > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2015/tc.2015-09-08-20.01.log.html#l-309 > > I feel it's very important to send a positive note for new/upcoming > projects and libraries... (and for everyone to remember that most projects > do start off with a small set of backers). So I just wanted to try to > ensure that we send a positive note with any tag like this that gets > created and applied and that we all (especially the TC) really really > considers the negative connotations of applying that tag to a project (it > may effectively ~kill~ that project). > > I would really appreciate that instead of just applying this tag (or other > similarly named tag to projects) that instead the TC try to actually help > out projects with those potential tags in the first place (say perhaps by > actively listing projects that may need more contributors from a variety of > companies on the openstack blog under say a 'HELP WANTED' page or > something). I'd much rather have that vs. any said tags, because the latter > actually tries to help projects, vs just stamping them with a 'you are bad, > figure out how to fix yourself, because you are not diverse' tag. > > I believe it is the TC job (in part) to help make the community better, > and not via tags like this that IMHO actually make it worse; I really hope > that folks on the TC can look back at their own projects they may have > created and ask how would their own project have turned out if they were > stamped with a similar tag... > > - Josh > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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