OpenEuphoria

The Euphoria Award

• Posted by bensler at mail.com Feb 27, 2002
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Hi all,

   I was browsing the RDS archives, trying to think of how I could 
donate my RDS bucks, and thought of an idea.

   I'm pretty sure most of the registered users, like me aren't donating 
our RDS bucks every month.

   I propose starting a sort of council, where participants would donate 
$X each month towards the goal of recognizing the most common libraries. 
This would make it easier for eu users to decide which libraries they 
should use. 

  I can see some problems with this system though, but the idea is very 
much in it's infancy.

  One problem is that if we were to vote for specific libraries each 
month, there would end up to be ALOT of files with donations, which 
isn't a bad thing, but it does deter the popularity of new 
contributions.

   A solution would require the participation of RDS to introduce a new 
tag to the archives legend for recommended libraries (I like the idea of 
a trophy icon). Each file in the archives with more than $XX genuinely 
earned (not through the council) RDS bucks gets a recommended tag. Files 
voted on through the council, would only be recommended, the $ donated 
wouldn't apply, or shouldn't show up at least.

   Maybe the council would not be a permanent part of the eu community, 
but only temporary, solely to recognize contributions considered 
essentials to most users.

   We would have a category, for example, 'General library' would 
probably have to be the first one. Which library fullfils the most 
general functionality: commonly used general routines, like abs(), 
or_all(), peek_string(), etc..
   The category would have to be defined fairly thouroughly.

   Then there would be a voting period. People could donate their $ 
towards a specified library that falls within the category definition. 
The $ is actually donated to the council, not the library file. When the 
voting and tallying is done, the coucil donates the $ towords the 
winning nomination.

  There would probably need to be a head of council to have veto power 
in case of tie votes, and deciding a category.

  I'm also thinking if we were to do this, we would need to setup a new 
forum for the council, where voting and deciding the category would take 
place. Updates would be posted to the mailing list to remind people to 
participate, and inform people of the progress, just like any other 
awards system. 

  If RDS were to take hold of this idea and fully support it, I think it 
could be a very promising long term solution to recognizing "useful" 
libraries. Unlike the micro-economy donations which reflect the 
"popular" libraries. People don't normally donate to things like Kat's 
strtok.e, but the council would take care of this.

  (It could also be an intriguing attraction for PC programming 
journalists ;)

  The magazine article about Euphoria that is linked to on the RDS site, 
pointedly like the idea of the EU community. I wonder what he would have 
thought of a Euphoria Award! :)

  Any thoughts?


Chris