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**Discussed in [2016-10-04
meeting](https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-10-04/comm...
Without a doubt, this was a very hot topic during the meeting today, which is awesome!
I'm going to summarize some of the key points we covered.
## Badge
We briefly discussed the idea of having a badge as a "reward" for the event (or
something to take with you), but we weren't clear on how to best go about distributing
something like that. I'd be lenient to have a badge without having a way that we can
clearly grant it to others.
Does anyone have any ideas on how we could distribute to badge to people who spend time
thanking another contributor or contributors?
## Community Blog post
I actioned myself to write a Community Blog about this over the coming weekend to announce
it to the community, both contributors and users. Some of it will surely be shaped by
other discussion that we will happen, but I can get out a first draft hopefully really
soon.
## Encouraging local events
Like with [Fedora Women Day
2016](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Women_Day_2016),
it would be nice to encourage local communities to have an in-person celebration to
commemorate the day. This could be a good way to help build local communities and
introduce others into Fedora (since it is the thirteen year anniversary of the project).
Some kind of physical / in-person resources would be especially helpful here.
But we also covered the area of trying to use or allocate any budget for this. I'd
rather focus spending time and energy on how to make it a successful virtual event because
incorporating any funds for this will be a burden (especially one month out), and it might
end up just making the event impossible to execute for some. There's also the note
that much of the community would likely be unable to participate in a local event, and at
the end of the day, I think it's especially important too that we give appreciation
and thanks to some of the contributors who may find it difficult to make it out to
in-person or physical events, and let them know their work is still greatly appreciated
and valued.
## Creating a video
I would consider this a stretch goal, but someone mentioned compiling some sort of short
and sweet video to release on the day of, highlighting the community and commemorating the
day. I don't have enough video editing experience on Linux to pull something together,
but I would be very open to the idea of creating something if there is someone with video
experience who could help drive this forward.
## Creating a wall of thanks
I think a big, public wiki page for people to leave general notes or thanks on is a good
idea. I debated the idea of an Etherpad and wiki, and I think a wiki would work best since
it requires someone to authenticate in FAS… just in case someone random decided to jump
into an Etherpad, delete everything, and run off.
We could structure the wiki page with categories for specific sub-projects and have a
general area of thanks, or we could just have it as one big, open-ended page.
## New IRC command
So @ankursinha mentioned the idea of this, and then @nb actually made it happen! But we
wanted to have an IRC command to help encourage and make it easier for people to give
thanks to other contributors. On the spot, we created a `.thank` command that you can use
to accomplish this. To thank another contributor in IRC, try the following:
<pre><jflory7> .thank nb
<zodbot> jflory7 thinks nb is awesome and is happy they are helping! (Please
don't forget to nb++ also)</pre>
## Social media presence
A social media presence will also be helpful for this event. I think a short and sweet
hashtag would be fine, maybe #FedoraAppreciation? I'm trying to think if there might
be something more unique we can use, because I'm worried about overlap with any
appreciation for actual fedoras. :stuck_out_tongue:
## Streaming / interviews
@rhea mentioned the idea of helping set up a live stream or interview series during the
week that we could run with Fedora contributors to talk a little bit about the type of
work they do, why they contribute, who they want to thank, etc. Something short and sweet,
but definitely personal and hopefully putting faces to nicks. I think this is a good idea
to help support the idea of a united Fedora community if we can pull it off. I'm not
that experienced in streaming, so I would be interested in knowing what kind of technical
setup someone might need if we wanted to include them.
## Improving visibility
@ankursinha rightfully noted that some parts of the project are a lot less visible than
others, and there could be an issue with some core parts of the project and community
members involved there who may not be recognized for their work. While I think it's
impossible to guarantee that _everyone_ will be thanked for something, I think we can make
it easier for people to know who to thank for what.
For example, you might not ever think of the people who create the FAS login with Ipsilon,
but that's a core thing that everyone in Fedora has used. If you were to explicitly
mention "here are the people who make the FAS login system run everyday!" and
point to an IRC channel or specific nicks, it would make it easier for people to say,
"Oh, so _that's_ who makes this happen!"
Perhaps on the Fedora Appreciation Day page (or maybe its own page), we can do a best
attempt at highlighting various parts of the project that may not normally be thought
of.
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Okay, phew! I think I covered everything here from the meeting. I'm going to be
following up shortly with a mailing list introduction of this idea to hopefully bring more
people into this discussion and get some more ideas flowing. It's important we act
swiftly on this one as we're working against a one month timer. :grin:
## CC
@bex @cprofitt @skamath @dhanesh95 @adityakonarde @ankursinha @rhea @x3mboy @bt0dotninja
@amsharma @tatica @bee2502
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