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

Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Cameron
Marketing Team: One thing that I think the GNOME Foundation is not very good about doing is promoting those people who volunteer their time to the project. I think it would help encourage people to participate in the GNOME project if the GNOME community was better able to promote Foundation