Ruth Suehle píše v Pá 03. 05. 2013 v 14:06 -0400:
| > I would rather see the ambassadors do something to thank
people for
| > contributing that everyone who contributes to Fedora is eligible for.
| > Why should ambassadors get t-shirts when packagers and doc writers and
| > on and on don't?
| >
| > We have some access to funding. Let's spend some of that to thank
| > people for helping Fedora but not limit it to ambassadors.
I initially was going to say that I like the idea of rewarding people for doing a little
more (like those who throw release parties), but this is a good point. There are lot of
people helping Fedora just as much in other ways.
This idea was meant to replace the old reward program for release party
organizers which is why it was originally limited to them (btw release
party can be organized by any contributor, it's not limited to
ambassadors). I have absolutely no problem to include other teams, too.
But there are several problems to solve.
Criteria: who's going to get a T-shirt? With the release party reward
program, it's very simple: everyone who is an event owner of a release
party.
So every team/spin/... which wants to be involved needs to define some
criteria, or we can simply give T-shirts away to anyone who applies and
has at least some sign of contribution until we run out of T-shirts.
Distribution&Cost: with the release parties, the distribution of
T-shirts is fairly easy and cheap, at least in some of the regions. In
EMEA, we send packages with media and swag to every release party, so
distributing T-shirts is just a matter of including them in the
packages. Sending T-shirts to various contributors would be logistically
more complicated and expensive because we'd have to send them in extra
packages. So are we going to have enough money not only for T-shirt
production, but also for shipping which won't land in this quarter for
sure? Who is going to package and send tens or hundreds of T-shirts?
If you guys can make a decision /very quickly/ so that a PO can be
made before the end of this quarter (which ends this month but does not mean you have
until the end of the month to make a decision), we have a lot of money left over this
quarter. Unless there are a lot of reports to come in that I haven't heard about,
we've fallen way short of expected spending for Q1. See:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FY14_Budget
I can produce T-shirts pretty quickly here in the Czech Republic. I can
have it produced for all regions and then just send a package to each
region, but maybe it'd be more cost-effective to produce one batch in
the US for NA+APAC and one batch in Europe for EMEA+APAC.
Anyone in the US able to execute this?
For design (and speed!), I'd like to suggest one that Stephen
Granade made for us that is both relevant now while we're still on Spherical Cow
(it's a spherical integral!) but also still fun and physics-related when
Schrodinger's Cat rolls around. It's an equation that spells out Fedora, which is
awesome for the names we've had this year.
I spoke with Sirko and he is on this.
He notes:
The "= mu" could definitely be lost w/no problem. [But is part of the cow
joke.] You can throw away the limit at the beginning, though it both adds to the mathiness
and actually works as an equation (see, the spherical cow has a singularity that you avoid
during integration by using a small epsilon and then taking the limit as it approaches the
singularity....).
(LaTeX code for the equation:
\lim_{\varepsilon_d \to 0} \iiint \! \mathbf{f(\boldsymbol{\varepsilon}_d,}
\boldsymbol{\theta}\mathbf{, r,} \boldsymbol{\phi} \mathbf{)} \, \mathrm{d}r \,
\mathrm{d}\theta \, \mathrm{d}\phi = \mu
I suggest we do these steps:
1. Make a design to give to vendors to get quotes
2. Get quotes
3. Figure out quantity based on the quotes and available budget.
Jiri