Hello, I'm planning a release of 0.97 for March 1st, if you all remember... And for that matter, I'm thinking about rewarding the team members who worked hard on amsn 0.97. We already talked about this, we were thinking about rewards, as in money compensation for every commit/feature/whatever, but I think I have a much greater idea : We'll be giving gifts! I'm thinking about giving gifts to those who helped, and gifts to the most active developers, maybe depending on the work done, give appropriate gifts, I'm hoping for a "big gift", something like the nintendo wii or psp, as well as medium sized gifts and smaller gifts. My idea is : 1 "big" gift 4 or 5 medium sized gifts a lot of smaller gifts. I'm thinking of something of the price range of the nintendo wii or psp for the "big" gift, but it's a bit too expansive too, but we'll see when the time comes... and giving that gift away randomly to one of the most active developers (depending on the workload, could be a randomly chosen person out of the 5, 6 or 7 most active developers). Then give medium sized gifts to the 5 most active developers (I wonder if the one who won the big gift should receive a medium sized one too, or should be 'disqualified'?), gift ideas would be something like a webcam, a 1GB usb flash stick, mp3 players, etc... and finally, smaller gifts could be given, like for example : http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/ or t-shirts, or whatever little goodies... What I think would just be great is to have a custom made t-shirt, with the amsn logo which says something like "I'm part of the team", or "I helped create aMSN v0.97" or something maybe more funny :p, whatever that would be, and have that shirt sent to all those who helped, any commiter, forum super-power-users, Gus for his skins.. but I think it would cost too much... so I really don't know, I just had all those great ideas, and I would like to have your opinions on this. First, if anyone has an idea or something, it would be good to add it. then it would be good to have all the 'rules' in writting in the wiki. then decide on how to proceed. I think it would be best if the list of possible gifts was created, then those who deserve a gift would get to choose one of the list, so you don't get a gift you didn't want. Ok, I've set up a wiki page here : http://www.amsn-project.net/wiki/Gift_ideas You can add gift ideas in there if you want, so we can build up a list, then the 'winners' can choose from there. We could also decide on some gifts then randomly give to those who won, then allow 'negociations' to start so there can be a gift exchange, if you like someone else's gift and he likes yours, you can exchange, etc...
Just so you know, IIRC, the most active devels so far, in order of activity, since revision 7500 (release of 0.96 although commits to branch/trunk for 0.97 were done before the 0.96 release...) are : lephilousophe with 58 commits kakaroto with 56 commits (this doesn't count the commits I was doing a local svn repository when developing libsiren) vivia with 46 commits scapor with 41 commits tomhennigan with 24 commits airadier with 22 commits and billiob with 19 commits Again, if we check since revision 7342 (the date the ads were added to the website), then it is : kakaroto with 86 commits lephilousophe with 69 commits vivia with 68 commits scapor with 41 commits tomhennigan with 35 commits airadier with 32 commits and billiob with 21 commits When you also look at the effort given for the 0.97 in terms of participation in the forums as well as the key features, we have the OIM, voice clips, msn spaces, +stability. those features were mostly worked on by : kakaroto, lephilousophe, vivia, scapor, billiob. Alvaro got included because of the translation, and I guess tomhennigan because of patches and mac compatibility issues. So... Please add ideas to the wiki so we can all benefit from it... i also found this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/article.aspx?articleid=1228621 when I was googling for "gift ideas for developpers" so maybe you can get ideas from there... and tell me what you think... If you want to discuss anything, do it over the ML, don't use the discussion page of the wiki, and don't write anything in the wiki apart new gift ideas, don't delete other's ideas (you can report here that someone posted an idea with value 10000$ and I can decide whether to remove it), and you can not change the rules or whatever from the wiki, we'll discuss it here and I'll change it myself. I think this idea will be something that we'll all like better than giving money based on commit/diff length, so I hope everyone agrees to it. p.s: I wonder how much it will cost, + the shipping :s but if necessary, I'm willing to donate to help this gift idea, as I think it's a good idea and people deserve to have some fun from time to time, right? :) KaKaRoTo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
