2009/3/24 Stéphane Bisinger <stephane.bisin...@gmail.com>
> 2009/3/24 Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net>:
> >
> > anyways, sorry about the earlier messages, but it just pisses me off when
> > people start talking about money, you shouldn't be greedy or want gifts
> and
> > stuff as rewards.. I've been busting my ass off for aMSN for 7 years now,
> > the amount of time I've given to aMSN is enormous and my reward is mainly
> > that people are happy using it and that thanks to the experience I gained
> > with aMSN, I was able to find decent jobs and had great career
> > opportunity... I think that's the reward you should be looking for :
> make
> > people happy! money/pins/tshirts is just a useless accessory to all of
> this!
> >
>
> I think it was not his intention to assume anything about the money
> you have or not, what he was trying to say is just that "pins
> shouldn't be that expensive after all". And his point was that with
> some little gratification people might feel more encouraged to
> contribute more, but I doubt that a pin would make any difference... I
> know I'd be throwing it in the bin right away ;)
Yeah, I know it wasn't his intention, which is why I said sorry! :p
and I do agree about the pin :p
>
>
> Still he's got a point that may be valid, except that the solution is
> not optimal: with even little gratification one can feel more
> encouraged to contribute some more. But you can give even greater
> gratification with something not at all expensive, like a "contributor
> of the month" box on the website, for instance. For some reason people
> seem to like to show their ugly faces on websites (that explains
> facebook) and its easier to show it to your friends than a pin. Also
> your friends will believe that it is true if they see you on aMSN's
> website, a pin could be taken from anywhere...
> You get the point ;)
Yep, I get the point of course.. that's why we do all this, self
satisfaction, and worldwide fame (ahem:p) , but yes, this is a very good
idea! ok so who's the contributor of the month? :)
oh and by the way.. I don't like showing my ugly face on websites! :p
>
>
> I don't think it is a necessity, but I always think that elaborating
> on ideas is good :D
yeah, stuff like that would be good! elaborating on ideas is always good,
and I do agree!
If you read my latest email and see the links on the wiki, you'll see that
this was already mentioned.. and we also had quite a lot of tshirts that
were suppoed to be sent to our contributors.. previous developers, current
developers, forum members who are helpful, patch submitters, etc.. We also
gave quite a few at random users during the FOSDEM conference! There's a
wiki page with the list of everyone (from that time) who 'deserved' a thank
you tshirt... unfortunately, we have this thing called lazyness which means
that more than a year later, most of the contributors didn't get their
tshirts yet.. I still have them in a box at my house, waiting for me to send
them.. and I still have this reminder telling me to do it...
I was recently in Australia, so I took that opportunity to send a few
tshirts to contributors who live there... I think they are the only ones who
received their tshirt!
Anyways, the desktop summit might be also encouraging to some people.. we'll
see! But I'm open to discussion on how to boost morale and motivation!
>
>
> --
> Stéphane
>
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