Re: Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-18 Thread Karl Horak
For an example of an award that's strictly based on popularity, see http://shortyawards.com/about/ the Shorty Awards , recently held by the Twitter folks. A hybrid solution would be to have a people's choice award in each category for the most popular, but have judges make the final call for the

Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-16 Thread Nate Aune
Hi Matt, I'm glad you took this idea which we informally discussed at the training and ran with it! I think it is a brilliant idea and would love to see it happen. I took the liberty to post your idea to the Plone Marketing wiki, so that others can see and riff on it. http://www.openplans.org/proje

Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-14 Thread Xavier Heymans
Hi Matt, It is a very good idea. One comments, maybe the list of "Suggested possible categories" could be extended to include non technical expertize. Xavier On 11 Feb 2009, at 21:39, Matt Fisher wrote: Hi list, An idea came up very informally at the Jazkarta Developer Training in Mo

Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-13 Thread Donna M Snow
awww! Cute pony! OK sorry JoAnna, please pardon my faux pas :-) I haven't been paying attention to Django and or the fact that they are into Ponies /me goes to look at django Donna Karl Horak wrote: Please see http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.pony/. Just set your text color to blue. :

Re: Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-13 Thread Karl Horak
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Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-12 Thread Vincenzo Barone
+1 Il giorno 12/feb/09, alle ore 20:01, Jon Stahl ha scritto: Matt- I’ve certainly brainstormed and discussed this informally with a few people over the years, but nobody has ever picked this up and made it fly. I would *love* to see it happen, and am willing to help make it so (both in

Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-12 Thread Donna M Snow
+1 I'd love to help in any way I can. Would this be presented at the conf each year? (maybe I missed this in your post?) Donna M Snow, Principal C Squared Enterprises illuminating your path to Open Source http://www.csquaredtech.com ___ Evangelism m

RE: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-12 Thread Jon Stahl
Matt- I've certainly brainstormed and discussed this informally with a few people over the years, but nobody has ever picked this up and made it fly. I would *love* to see it happen, and am willing to help make it so (both in my role as PF Board President and as a random community volunteer

Re: [Evangelism] proposal for plone awards

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Horak
Matt, I think this is a splendid way to raise visibility of Plone in general while giving a much deserved tip o' the hat to hard working, creative developers, designers, and even innovative users. Your proposal is much more effictive than my "Plone Metrics Person-of-the-Year Award" every Dec.