I’m not a fan, but I won’t be in the way of this. Best Jan --
> On 27 Oct 2014, at 14:49 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > SUMMARY > > I'm currently working on the rewards for the CouchDB AdvocateHub. (See > bottom of this email for a refresher.) > > One of the rewards I'd like to offer is the ability to "name" a > CouchDB release. We'd mention the name in the release announcement and > in the changelog. But otherwise, we'd continue to talk about releases > using the release number. > > Primarily, I see it as a bit of fun. And a great way to reward advocates. > > I'm cross-posting this to dev and marketing because it's both a > release management proposal as well as a marketing proposal. > > DETAILS > > The way I see it working: > > - Advocate redeems the "name a release" reward, and picks a name > - The name is vetted by the PMC (for brand protection) and put on a queue > - The next release picks the oldest name on the queue > > I'd probably actually want to separate this into three rewards: > > - Name a bugfix release > - Name a minor release > - Name a major release > > Each one would be require more points than the last. > > REFRESHER > > Our AdvocateHub is a professional tool that has been donated to us > that will allow us to mobilise fans of CouchDB to talk about, promote, > and advocate CouchDB to on social media, and to their network. For a > project like ours, with limited to no financial budget for traditional > marketing, this is a huge opportunity for us. > > The AdvocateHub has two important concepts (for the purposes of this > email): challenges and rewards. Advocates complete challenges (like > "leave a review" or "write a case-study") and in return, we give them > points. Collect enough points, and they can redeem rewards. The > rewards are a thank you helping to advocate CouchDB. > > RATIONALE > > There are four main categories of reward: > > - Stuff (t-shirts, mugs, tickets to conferences, etc) > - Access (dinner with a committer, promotion on our blog, social media, etc) > - Status (recognition on our website, hand written thank you note, etc) > - Power (name a release, ... what else?) > > Struggling on the "power" category, because everything we do here is > decided by the community. This category would be much easier to fill > out if we were a regular business. But I figure that naming a release > is a fun approach. > > Thanks, > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater
