Re: TestFest 2010

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 02:14 -0500, Eric Stewart wrote: > TestFest 2010 > > ##### New Wiki Page ##### > I'd like to create a new wiki page for this year's TestFest ( > http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest-2010). I'd like to keep > the old one up for > reference, and maybe posterity. Any objections? thanks for driving this topic! > ##### When ##### > I got quite a fair amount of feedback from people last year wishing the > event ran longer. So I propose we run it from April to July 2010 (4 Months) > this year. People are welcome to submit tests even outside the testfest, and I'd like to see testfest as an initial motivation to get started. > ##### Prizing ##### > 1. PHP ElePHPants. These are very popular and sought after. If we don't > currently have any to give away, can we get a corporation to sponsor a run > of say 50 little ones for random test writers and 1 BIG ElePHPant to go to a > lucky User Group. I'll talk to Damian about this. They make great prizes, encouraging PHP fans. > 2. PHP email addresses. Also very popular and pretty inexpensive. Give maybe > 5. These are no prizes. This is a tool for PHP contributors to talk toeach other (as in finding the correct current mail address of somebody whodid a commit) As such they shouldn't be given to people by chance but as part of the account for their work. > 3. 5-10 Zend Studio Licenses might make a popular prize. There are many good PHP IDEs out there, don't know why we should feature one specific. If Zend sponsors them I won't oppose but well ... (Disclaimer: I work for a vendor of a very good free OpenSource PHP IDE) > 4. 5 Laptops. Anybody know somebody? I know, maybe a bit much, but if you > don't ask, you won't get! I prefer quality over quantity submissions,such a price might give us many contributions but many of very small quality which makes it harder for us - given the limited review capacity. > 5. 5 Licenses of Windows 7 Ultimate to random contributors of Windows > specific test writers? > 5. 5 Licenses of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server? Same as with the above prizes. RHEL is even more questionable if we want to promote a distribution offering way outdated PHP (5.1), especially as the only worth of such a distribution is the support which is mostly relevant for production use, where one system isn't much. Being an open source project I'd prefer promoting OpenSource Operating Systems over closed source operating systems - if at all. But again: If they come to us I won't object but I'd not actively search there. (Disclaimer: I work for a company having its own Linux distribution and a true Unix system) I'd rather give out books or conference passes or such kind of stuff (conference passes are complicated due to the global nature though ...) > Any corporation who sponsors prizes will be highlighted in a sponsor section > of the Wiki as well as in the news announcements on PHP.net. In general php.net doesn't promote companies too much, mirror sponsors get their logo, some hardware/bandwidth sponsors get a text link other than that php.net is rather neutral. Thanking companies is fine but I don't favor selling ads. johannes