[CentOS-devel] Promoting contributor efforts

Tue Apr 16 13:09:13 UTC 2013
Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>

On 16.04.2013 12:19, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Over the years, we have had a silent group of people, who have helped,
> promoted, contributed code, helped QA, helped in various other 
> parallel
> efforts that all bring together the CentOS Ecosystem. Its time we did
> something to promote these people, make them visible and to give them
> credit for the work and efforts they have been putting in. After all, 
> a
> large chunk of reward for open source efforts is recognition.
> 
> To this end, I'd like to propose the CentOS VIP effort. A draft 
> overview
> is posted here : http://wiki.centos.org/KaranbirSingh/VIP
> 
> A key takeaway from this is that this group would in effect take over
> running most of the project activities, with the CentOS Core team now
> back tracking to running admin and project specific tasks ( eg. making
> sure the centos.org domain name is paid for and renewed! ).
> 
> I am looking for comments on things to add / remove / change, as well 
> as
> a couple of voulenteers to help run the infra around this effort.
> 
> - KB

Very nice idea! Lots of nice men, women and cats around that deserve a 
bit of credit. :-)

Count me in as well for whatever needs to be done.

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