Review options for contributor recognition

[svrnm]

• “Featuring” SIGs (or individuals) via the blog
• Credly or Holopin via CNCF (https://contribute.cncf.io/resources/project-services/hosted-tools/)
  • Reach out to Linkerd and see what they do here
    • Do we know someone there?
  • Figure out how we can get started with Credly ourselves (CNCF Service Desk issue?)
• Contributor Awards
• Check if SIGs already have ways to recognize contributors?
  • Do they reach out to contributors via slack, etc?
  • Personal recognition from maintainers (“hey here is a discount code, we know you are near by”)
• Discount Coupons to CNCF events?

[codefromthecrypt]

On recognition via slack

an actionable next step could be interviewing SIGs for their ground rules of using slack. If they believe silence in channels is a feature or a bug, and if they want silence, saying public thanks may be annoying to them.

I don't recall precisely, so don't assume this is correct, but some person on a SIG hinted that slack was sortof exception basis, and folks are encouraged to interact more in zoom meetings than slack.

I'm currently in camp "slack is a campfire" so things including hellos, good work, what are you working on, are fair game. I can't project that across each SIG's slack, so even if I like the idea of reaching out via slack, we may have some different opinions out there.

Regardless, even if slack was sort of like "this is a library, talk on the zoom calls" I would still encourage people via DM.

my 2p

[svrnm]

an actionable next step could be interviewing SIGs for their ground rules of using slack. If they believe silence in channels is a feature or a bug, and if they want silence, saying public thanks may be annoying to them.

This is unrelated to recognition and might be worth to have it's own issue