Request for Ubuntu Doc Leadership

[Benjamin Kerensa]

Hello all, I'd also encourage strongly that the Canonical Community Team
consider better recognition of contributions in this area. Recognition is
the most basic form of incentive for working on open source projects,
especially those aligned with enterprise companies goals. While Ubuntu is
very unique from other OSS projects, I would point out that it seems like
Canonical has reduced investment in recognition and reward for contributors
doing good work. I can recall a few years back I had reached out to ask
Canonical to send a shirt and some stickers to the active contributors of
the doc team to recognize their work. I had gotten a commitment from an
employee (I'm not going to name drop) but that employee despite follow up
never sent anything. It was a bit disappointing because I know how
tirelessly those contributors worked each cycle to provide documentation
for Ubuntu Desktop and Server users. Anyways, the gist here is I think it
would be good not to just find leadership but also find a good way
intangible or tangible to recognize the good work of those still
contributing to this team. Their work isn't flashy like core apps so they
don't get invited to sprints or get gifts and their work isn't flashy like
locos so they don't get funded to fly to Fosdem or Scale but their work is
just as important and they deserve recognition.

I'd strongly encourage the Canonical Community Team to overall evaluate
recognition of contributors across all teams in the project and see where
improvements can be made and some consistent recognition can occur more
regularly across the project. Recognition doesn't have to be swag. It could
be a friendly email or a variety of things but anything is better than
nothing.

Here are some resources should anyone be interested:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition/Toolkit
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Recognition
https://plus.google.com/+fedora/posts/Q89aCPTrbZi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_vested_contributors

Mind you I think if money is to ever be spent on recognition it should come
from Canonical not from community donors. But I also think the best form of
recognition doesn't cost a scent and that often is a thank you in private.




Cheers,
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