[Tikiwiki-users] PROPOSAL: Enhance TW community by some internal awards

[Xavier de P. P. <xav...@ub...>]

Hi all:

Last months I've been thinking in ways to promote Tikiwiki Community. We 
had some discussion in last weeks at tiki-devel list, but this should be 
(imo) driven to all TW users list... (tw forums?). So I through this new 
proposal here on this list, at least as a starting point...

Those of us who can't code (more than small hacks to previously coded 
files) might promote/reward those who code the most, or who code the 
best, or who fix the higher number of bugs, etc.  Maybe the 3 most 
active in whatever activity that benefits us all.

An easy reward would be, for instance, one of the Tikiwiki T-Shirt's 
that can be delivered by post to those people, for instance... (amette 
knows all details about it, and maybe some others might have 
alternatives). We would need to have some place where we can collect 
some donations for those internal awards... Some of us, TW Community 
members (either simple users, or coders, etc.), are getting some money 
back from our work related to Tikiwiki installations, courses taught, 
etc. so some of us might not mind giving some money back to promote the 
Community activity, etc. (some people have been actively doing this for 
long, afaik)

Some quick & dirty calculations could be:
T-shirt price: around 25 euro/unit

We could start by:
* the best 3 bug fixers of the year
* the best 3 forum/irc/list helpers of the year
* the best 3 committers to cvs/svn of the year
* the best 3 documenters of the year

This would mean 25 euro x 12 people: 300 euro/year

Lets imagine that 10 people can donate on average 30 euro this year 
2008: this would mean that we could have funds for that type of Tikwiki 
internal awards... :-)
 
*What do you think? Anyone raising it hand as potential donor for that 
idea/project?*
(or course, I raise my hand for that... :-)

Xavi

P.S.: I've voted already for TW on the sf.net 2008 awards 
(http://tikiwiki.org/art165), but I don't think we have any chance to 
win any one, since there is not category suitable for TW (imho)... So 
why not promoting our own internal awards? For instance, below you can 
see an example from the Moodle community (moodle.org), which already 
have that type of internal awards...

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(from a message through Moodle rss news:)

?As announced in the developer meeting yesterday, the 
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059652918X?ie=UTF8&tag=httpmoodlcom-20&linkCo%0A%0ANew%20mail%20server%0Ahttp://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=88619%0Aby%20Martin%20Dougiamas.%20%20%3Cp%3E%20Just%20a%20technical%20note:%20I%27ve%20moved%20the%20moodle.org%20%3Ca%20class=>Moodle 
bugathon <http://docs.moodle.org/en/Bugathon> prize winners are as follows:
Most bugs resolved

Dan Poltawski
Gary Anderson
David Mudrak

runners-up: Petr Kalis, Mike Churchward, Eric Merrill and Michael Spall

Most fixes verified

Nicolas Martignoni
Séverin Terrier

Most duplicates identified

Dan Poltawski
David Mudrak
Wen Hao Chuang

Most new bugs filed

Matt Gibson
Dan Poltawski
Wen Hao Chuang

Prizes consisted of cash, iPods and a choice of any item from the Moodle 
Shop <http://www.cafepress.com/moodle/>.
Congratulations to all our prize winners and a big thank you to everyone 
who took part in the bugathon.
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