>Does a community group have the power to decide that a monetary >prize is awarded to whoever comes up with the winner?
If they come up with the money, yes. If they don't come up with the money, of course not. OpenSolaris has no finances and therefor no budget. >And further to that, does the community group have the power to >award that kind of prize in OpenSolaris's name? Is there such a thing? >Or to put it differently, if such a decision was made by the community >and activity understaken that this would happen, who would sign >the cheque for the prize winner on behalf of OpenSolaris? > >Someone from the OGB or someone else? OpenSolaris has no cash, so it would be someone from Sun if Sun sponsored it or else whoever collected the money. > From the very start of this, my position has been that getting this >to properly motivate people requires a competition with a prize at >the end and that for this reason it requires more thought than the >community "just doing it." > >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. Well, come up with a plan on how to finance that first. Casper
