[Sugar-devel] Volunteer certificates

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 16.08.2010, at 22:00, James Simmons wrote:

> This thread has made me wistful.  I go to a conference every year
> called "No Fluff Just Stuff".  The guy who runs it has the title "Meme
> Wrangler".  I've had several different titles at my day job, every one
> more dismal than the last.  The work and the pay doesn't change, just
> the title.  What I wouldn't give to be a "Meme Wrangler", or a
> "Wizard", or a "Lord High Executioner", or even an "Oompah-Loompah",
> even if the job didn't pay anything.
> 
> Maybe that could be an inducement to volunteer for Sugar Labs.  Make a
> significant contribution and somebody in authority, maybe Walter
> Bender, gives you a cool title.  Maybe a signed certificate you could
> hang in the office of your day job.
> 
> James Simmons

Indeed, I'm a proud Knight of the Square Bracket:

http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/assets/VMBuilderCertificate.pdf

Squeako ergo sum! :)

- Bert -


> 
> 
>> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:26:33 -0400
>> From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Appropriate to call myself "senior
>>        developer"?
>> To: Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>,      Sascha Silbe
>>        <sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-2 at silbe.org>
>> Message-ID: <1281889593.1936.237.camel at giskard>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>> 
>> El Sun, 15-08-2010 a las 11:41 +0100, Lucian Branescu escribi?:
>>>> ...as long as I can be "Senior Wizard Extraordinaire and ?berhaxc0r at
>>>> Sugar Labs and everywhere else" :-)
>>> 
>>> Calling ourselves wizards would be interesting.
>> 
>> Oompa-Loompas might be more appropriate :-)
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oompa-Loompa
>> 
>> --
>>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
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