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Re: scratch the itch
- To: Arabeyes Standpoint <forum at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: scratch the itch
- From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:11:04 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Arafat Medini <arafato at gmail dot com> wrote:
> What a about an "intellectual fee"?
> You use our infrastructure and you "pay" with participating in a given
> time into one of our projects.
> Or you donate code.
> Or you make publicity about us on your website.
> Or you donate money.
> Or you promote our software, by hiring testers. You have your webiste
> you ask the users to try ITL out, they find and erport bugs.
> We do not always need direct contributions. Hire people to test the
> software, hire people to test the website to test the docs etc... for
> eg.
> Test the DEs!!!
> There are many idea...
How do you enforce this ? What all of this really boils down, I think,
is putting forth a good nurturing environment so that those that are
self-motivated and have "fire in their belly" (TM) can thrive in pursuing
their interests. If we start a quid-pro-quo mechanism it seems to cheapen
the entire idea - but still there is no harm in asking or suggesting I
guess. In all I continue to agree with youcef that our biggest hurdle
is our poor PR image and lack of external collaboration and involvement,
those areas is what we should concentrate on to see where they lead us.
Thanks for your thoughts/opinions & Salam.
- Nadim
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