Friend-of-the-Forest

[erickt]

Rust used to do Friends-of-the-Tree for significant contributions to the compiler, but now that our ecosystem has grown, how can we grow this to the broader community?

[edunham]

As discussed in the meeting, starting at http://logs.glob.uno/?c=rust-community#c3799, we have 2 related needs:

1. Core team would like Community team to select appropriate Friends Of The Tree (FOTT) for This Week In Rust (TWIR).

2. Community team also thinks it would be cool to have a "thank you" type section in TWIR, where any Rust user/project can thank a contributor or supporter.

Both of these require some kind of nomination process, because at this point no single Rust team has insight into every piece of essential but less-visible work that's happening across the ecosystem.

Suggested nomination format is "I'm __, and ___ was a friend of the forest by doing ___".

We haven't finalized the decision of whether (1) and (2) would use the same nomination form, or separate ones. General consensus was that FOTT is a special honor and direct recognition from a Rust team is part of its importance, so "kudos" nominations would inform FOTT by pointing out whose contributions the Community team should examine more closely to see if they're what we're trying to highlight.

[brson]

I think it makes since to get started on the 'thank you' ('kudos' is a great word) section of twir first while we decide exactly what it means to be fott (or fotf - 'friend of the forest').

I strategy I suggest is to have a standing urlo thread where everyone is invited to post, and where each post is one kudo - a name, and a sentence / paragraph explaining what the've done that was awesome (with links hopefully).

That list can be rolled up every week in twir.

cc @llogiq @nasa42

[brson]

Friend of the Tree archives. If we do restart fott, would be great to keep this updated.

[edunham]

cc #77, nominations that @erickt collected at rustconf

[erickt]

We got this up and running!