On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:53:47AM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
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Hello, I was attending the meeting in my cellphone and I lost signal in the
midle of the meeting, so I want to finish a idea here, we want to see more
relases parties for the F27 cicle, we do not need a big budget for RP in
latam, RP are really inexpensive events, but some years ago it was a
practice in the Fedora Project to award to the event owner of the best
release party in any region with a dinner (not for all the people in thi
country, only the event owners), I brought up the issue because it is
important to recognize in some way the work of the organizers of these
events, years ago was done that way, you could consult commops if they
agree to find some way to encourage the organizers of RP.
I quote my comments on this during the meeting:
<quote>
I would be -1 for that. Fedora is not a company where we compensate
people with prizes like dinners for their effort, that's not how free
software communities work (and that would be expensive).
Of course we could recognize effort and hard work in other ways: last
year I received a hand written letter from gitlab for contributing to
the project in the early days. It made me smile, to receive that
handwritten letter from overseas.
Maybe we could do that Fedora wide and not just for latam.
</quote>
We first want to answer the question: what messages do we want to pass
to contributors? Although rewarding them whewnever possible is an
excellent idea, letting them know they will be rewarded upfront should
be well thought before implementing. I wouldn't like to see people doing
this or that so they will get {{PRIZE}} in the end of the year, this
could foster competition and bad behavior instead of collaboration.
--
Athos Ribeiro
http://www.ime.usp.br/~athoscr