<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">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: <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition</a> <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition/Toolkit">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition/Toolkit</a> <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Recognition">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Recognition</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/+fedora/posts/Q89aCPTrbZi">https://plus.google.com/+fedora/posts/Q89aCPTrbZi</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_vested_contributors">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_vested_contributors</a> 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, </div>