Hey all, <quote who="Terry Dawson">
> heh, if you're going to do nametags then everyone should be encouraged to > wear nametags, not just the newbies. Otherwise the name-tags alone can make > you feel uncomfortable and 'marked'. Let's leave name tags to the few extroverts happy to be welcomers. That way if new people come and want to just be part of the crowd they can :) > Everyone wearing name-tags, while perhaps seeming a bit daggy, could > actually be a cool thing. You could, for example, have a scheme where other > people could endorse a persons nametag for exceptional behaviour. You know, > Gold Stars for being helpful or something. Maybe you could endorse your > nametag with things that you're prepared to talk about, help with or that > you are knowledgable about. This might provide a means of readily > identifying who the helpful people are, and perhaps encouraging people to > put in the little bit of extra effort to help people. We often end up identifying people by email participation :) Which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, but encouraging people to post to the mailing list and tracking participation that way is a good thing. Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains." - Jean Jacques Rosseau -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
