Hi There are people who market everyday in facebook or in free advertising websites who are not members, who have applied to be members and declined and there are more than one. People who spread the word almost religiously how do they get recognition from the membership committee?
On monday alone I posted about 10 gumtree adverts. I have paid for a small advertisement in the loot newspaper nationally. For the next three months. Hopefully I can raise the profile of openSUSE in the UK over the summer. All we can do is post what we do and blog about it. Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:51:37 To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Contributor Recognition - how can we do it? On Friday, April 08, 2011 12:03:38 AM Ricardo Chung wrote: > On Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:38:47 PM Chuck Payne wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, April 07, 2011 14:58:53 Kostas Koudaras wrote: > > >> Yeap but on the other hand there are people that are not > > >> members(yet ?!?) and contributed and members that are not active > > >> anymore and they did not contributed on 11.4. > > > > > > The not active anymore is something we have to sort out with the > > > foundation as well - yeah... > > > > > >> Oh god, it is really difficult to decide whom to leave in and out. > > >> Come on people, Feedback... > > > > > > Yeah, please! ;) > > > > > > Andreas > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > [email protected] > > > > This is my thought on what to give once we pick who are contributor. > > > > I think would be a great award, and you could make up a couple > > thousands. Are pins with the Geeko, I know Carlos has made a few. With > > the phrase "I Contribute!". Along with this pin the person get a nice > > cert that they can frame that states for their work for contributing > > to the openSUSE Project on such and such. The pins can be made for a > > couple dollars, and cert for about 50 cent to a dollar. > > > > Now for people like Manu and others that go way and beyond, then it > > would be up to board to give them some nice little award. In fact, > > maybe every year pick the one person that has gone out their way high > > light their work to the project. Then maybe pick four others that have > > done as much. > > > > Flash Drive a expensive. If I had to guess the same price as boxset. > > I like this approach Chuck mentioned. I made Tux lapel or pin and people > loved it. They did anything to get it. It would be nice receiving a > openSUSE pin and a nice Recognition Letter with Recognition Certifcate. > I believe most people would feel good with those and increase their > valuable contribution. > > it is possible to organize levels of contribution ( Silver, Gold, a lot is possible - and I'd like to come up with ways that are easy to implement. Many different levels mean shipping is much harder and how to define the levels? My main headache with this recognition is setting it up in such a way that it's little overhead for all of us - and especially for our shipping folks. > Platinum, Premium or Emerald, Ruby, Diamond ) and areas for > contribution (programming, admin, social networking & marketing, wiki > maintainer, documetation, translating, bug fixing, tutorial builder, > package maintainer, testers, etc.), It's another stuff wether It's > possible to make recognition in areas (it will improve the people > integration beyond coders) making a complet community. > > If it's possible to give a special recognitions using voucher or > discount (i.e. LPI certification, Books, etc.) will be a plus. The good > part it does not need to send a package anywhere. ;-) > > These are my ideas at this moment. Hope is helpful. thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] N‹§²æìr¸›y隊Z)z{.±éš®GŠx>º{.nÇ+‰·¨¥éìºÇ¨®h§]ŠØ¨�©\¢iš�Û ™¨¥¢—§²ë ™ªäzاƒè^–š)z{.±ê+
