Simon Phipps wrote: > I would like to suggest follow-up is directed solely to advocacy- > discuss (I have set reply-to). > > On Jun 26, 2007, at 01:04, Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > >> And yes, I feel that some kind of prize or reward is essential, >> otherwise >> we don't stand a very good chance of getting the right result unless we >> fluke it and someone already is or someone knows someone who'll do >> it for free. "It" in this case being a professionally designed logo or >> cartoon'd mascot. > > > Does the same apply to the rest of the creative work of the > OpenSolaris community? Had we better start getting a prize fund > together in order to motivate people to work on ZFS, or SMF, or DTrace?
I think you're asking the wrong questions. Perhaps a better question to ask is if the ZFS/SMF/DTrace team were rif'd or otherwise started working at another company doing whatever (perhaps even working for a competitor), would they still be active contributors to OpenSolaris? Or to put it differently, to what extent is the contributor base of OpenSolaris built upon people who have joined it and contribute to it for enjoyment vs they're paid to (in one way or another)? Would offering bounties for doing various things for OpenSolaris in areas such as ZFS/SMF/DTrace increase the participation in those areas by developers outside of Sun? > Or do you just think we've all been so impossibly rude and > patronising to marketing professionals that there is no chance they > would ever participate in our community, even if some company who was > paying the salaries of many of the people in the community already > were willing to also pay them while they participated? That would be upto Sun. I don't know if Sun hires those people directly or contracts it out. I just highly doubt that we would find people so inclined amongst our current community, primarily because there are very few so inclined people amongst other open source communities when measured against those that contribute with code. Or can you point us at an "open source" equivalent of marketting professionals? The goal is to increase the chance we'll attract someone who'll come up with a good solution by expanding the appeal of the work to a larger group. Darren
