2006/3/15, Alfonso Acosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Does anyone here have any ideas as to how we might attract some more
> > experienced PCB designers to the project?
>
> How about using something similar to the approach used by Donald
> Knuth? He gives a reward for every errata found in his books.
>
> He sends a symbolic amount of money but the real reward is the honour
> of having contributed in some of his work and found an error in one of
> his books.
>
> Unfortunately OGP doesn't have the reputation of Mr Knuth. Instead,
> some stupid examples of the reward (depending on the importance of the
> bug found) could be:
>
> * stickers
> * a geek t-shirt with the name of the developer and the part of the
> schematics he fixed
> * accumulative small discounts per bug found
> * .... add yours here
>
> It's somehow the same idea as giving developer prices, but in a more
> relaxed way. It requires a lower grade of commitment from the
> contributor cause he doesn't have to prove he reached the developer
> status.
>
>
> --
> Alfonso Acosta (Fons)
> My Space: http://www.myspace.com/2opremio
> Home Page: http://fons.net.dhis.org/
> Broadcom 6345 Linux distribution: http://brcm6345-linux.sourceforge.net/
>


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Alfonso Acosta (Fons)
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/2opremio
Home Page: http://fons.net.dhis.org/
Broadcom 6345 Linux distribution: http://brcm6345-linux.sourceforge.net/
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