Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-18 Thread Iestyn Pryce
Ar Mer, 2009-09-16 am 11:03 -0600, ysgrifennodd Stormy Peters: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote: Stormy: How do we encourage people to write recommendations? Could we do some sort of

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-17 Thread Stormy Peters
So where do we put out a call for thank you's? Maybe create a wiki page and then put out a call on the GNOME Foundation list? Stormy On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: I would recommend calling out people in the new quarterly reports, maybe as it's own

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: Stormy: How do we encourage people to write recommendations? Could we do some sort of Pass it on campaign? A few of us could write recommendations and then ask the people we recommended to pass it on by

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Cameron
Stormy: What if we had a thank you GNOME mailing list or page. People could send in their thanks for specific features or work and we could match it up with the right person. Yes, I think the GNOME community really needs more forums for making sure that people get recognition for the work

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: For example, we get three people writing in to say the new bugzilla is awesome and it saves them 30 minutes a day finding bugs to work on, so the board writes a recommendation on Max/Olav/sys admin team member page

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Cutler
I would recommend calling out people in the new quarterly reports, maybe as it's own section, rather than GNOME Journal or the release notes. Paul On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Cameron

Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-09-15 Thread Stormy Peters
I really like this idea. More and more employers are looking for potential employees on LinkedIn. I wonder if we could do this by: (1) Having people update their wiki page on live.gnome.org. (2) Having other people vouch for that work on the wiki and also put that voucher on LinkedIn. If