Re: TestFest 2010

2010/3/2 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 14:32 -0500, Eric Stewart wrote: > > Sorry for any offense. I certainly didn't mean to imply that Zend Studio > was > [...] > > There was no offense from you! I appreciate your ideas and I'm happy > about everybody working on this. All I wanted to say is that I prefer > community focused prices which are a nice "thank you" over expensive > prices. Kind of creating a "yay - I helped PHP and they gave me this > nice elephpant"(*) emotion :-) > > johannes > > (*) Damien recently told me a story about bringing regularly packages > full of elephpants to th e post office, one day the post clerk did him a > favor as he forgot his wallet or something, Damien thanked him by > giving him an elephpant, the post clerk didn't really know what to do > with it but the next time Damien came to the post office the clerk > expected him happily and told him about his son's reaction: son: "you've > got an elephpant? where did you get that from?" clerk: "well, some dude > gave it me at the post office" s: "you've got some elphpant! that's so > cool! had that dude been Damien Seguy?" c: "yes" s: "that's so cool, > my > dad knows Damien" as the son was a happy PHP user .... the point is: > That's the kind of emotion I'd like to have from the prices - I fear > that not winning a laptop creates an emotion like "damn, why did i just > get the elephpant and not that laptop." Hope that clarifies my point of > view! > Your exactly right. My enthusiasm gets the better of me. Staying with mainly PHP centered prizes makes the most sense. What if someone (or company) sponsored an "Official" PHP TestFest 2010 T-Shirt. Front left-side the PHP or TestFest logo. On the back printed: "PHP TestFest 2010" "Ensuring your bits never break, one test at a time!" (Or some such non-sense) A final line to denote the wearer's contribution to the event such as: ~5-10 T-Shirts with "Administrator". (For the admins). ~10 T-Shirts with "Sponsor". (For those sponsoring prizes, meetings space, etc.) ~20-30 T-Shirts with "Moderator" (For user group event leaders and moderators). ~70 T-Shirts with "Contributor" for contributors. These would be a one time only "Limited Edition" T-Shirt given randomly to those who fit in each of the categories. I can't imagine it costing a fortune for this and it'll hopefully build event branding and community spirit. Of course I might be thinking way outside the box again. Feel free to reel me back in. Eric Lee Stewart