<div dir="ltr"><div>I had considered using this approach for "providers" directory page ... as there are far more consulting organizations listed than participate in our open source projects.</div><div><br></div><div>The drawback is that it is important to recognize organizations (such as government and non profit) that participate in our community ... but are not interested in operating as a support provider.</div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions here are welcome as I expect it forms the heart of providing our participants greater visibility.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2015 at 06:52, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Separating out one idea from the sponsorship thread - <div><br></div><div>We are setting up a Sponsors and Donations page with Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze categories to acknowledge those who financially contribute to OSGeo.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to consider setting up a page to acknowledge organizations that participate in OSGeo at the project level. fortunately in this case the categories are easier to manage:</div><div><br></div><div>- Leadership - project steering committee or similar responsible for decision making</div><div>- Maintainer - module maintainer, responsible for code reviews, release, build server or some other aspect of project health and happiness.</div><div>- Committer - obtained commit permission on a project</div><div>- Contributor - submitted functionality or fix that passed code review and was included in a release</div><div><br></div><div>Not all projects have these distinctions but the roles are well understood. Example GeoNode rewards their most active committers with a PSC style vote :)</div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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