Re: Discussion on Guix funding // future

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:37:36AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> writes:
> 
> > Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
> > and doing the dirty job?
> 
> For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics and
> hand out an award with a monetary component at an annual event.  I'm not
> speaking of sustainable funding of that work, but of a mechanism to both
> publicize the importance of the work and to add a social component to
> recognizing it.

A similar idea would be to do an in-person event (or online) where we
would get together and spend our time working on documentation or trying
to clear out all the pending patches or something else, and then have
the funding go toward travel and lodging and food.

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