Re: Suggestion about providing more value to Foundation members

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Stormy:

> How do we encourage people to write recommendations? Could we do some
> sort of "Pass it on" campaign? A few of us could write
> recommendations and then ask the people we recommended to "pass it
> on" by recommending two more people.

That is not a bad idea.  However, I think one thing that makes this hard
is that many people probably do not know who is doing good hard work.
Many people might be thrilled by the new bugzilla, for example, but
have no idea who did the work.  It is hard to recommend people if you
do not know who is doing things.

Every year at GUADEC we have a process for recognizing someone
who worked hard in the year by giving them a pair of pants.  Perhaps
we should make more of an effort to think about who has done hard work
for the community and recognize them for their efforts in a more
regular fashion, say monthly, or perhaps by making a mention of those
people in the GNOME Journal, for example.  Then we could highlight what
social networking tools the person uses and encourage people to say
nice things about them if they appreciate the person's efforts.

Those are just some suggestions.  I am sure there are many ways we
could be better about spreading the word about people who do good
work for the community.

Brian