oh, great:) Yea, I was thinking about ap but I forgot they got membership:) So how about extending the idea to larger amount of people? Maybe some chaver knessest will be interested?:)
Ely On 12/13/06, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006, E L wrote about "a strange idea": > There are various people working on promoting opensource in israel. I think > we should have some procedure of offering > this kind of people membership of honour (either as yedidim or as full > membership) which means they get to be members without > paying anything. > I think it's relatively cheap thing to do and might help to make the > connection of hamakor with the community stronger. > It might even be done in some ceremony or so. This is not a strange idea, and in fact it something that we already did, for two years - as part of Hamakor Prize. For Hamakor Prize, the prize committee chose from nominations made by the general public, 5 people which they considered those that made the most significant contribution to free software in Israel. Each of these 5 people got a year's membership in Hamakor, free: the idea was that if these people are not Hamakor members, we want them to be! The Hamakor prize process continued, with Hamakor's entire membership (members and friends) voting on one of these 5 people to give the final prize to. We even did the ceremony part - the 5 nonminees were announced in a mailing to all members and friends, and were later invited to the August Penuin event, where they were introduced (and, later, one of them awarded a prize). I think this idea worked well, and it even got a few people who were never interested in the Amuta to get involved in it. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Dec 13 2006, 23 Kislev 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The two rules for success are: 1. Never http://nadav.harel.org.il |tell them everything you know.
