collect anonymous two-sentence thank yous from tippers

[timothyfcook]

Tippers should be able to leave two-sentence anonymous thank yous for tippees. These will show on tippee profile pages, and in a "featured" section on the homepage.

Was: Create Template for Features Content and Nominations

Warning, noob work below:

In order to highlight some of the great work being done by lesser-known civil-servant programmers and open-source heroes, Gittip should rotate ultra-short "Features"... short bios on tip-able git-members (around 10 lines). In order to crowd-source the content for the bio/feature and obtain nominations to help choose the features, an ultra-simple template should be made. Nominations are anonymous.

--Template Rough Draft--

Nominee's Github Username: WHIT537

Current Project: Gittip

Major Contributions: Aspen.io, Gittip, IHasAMoney.com

Anonymous two-sentence "Thank You": Chad has changed my life with all of his techno-shenanigans. If it weren't for his IHasAMoney project, I wouldn't know what to do WIF it, Thanks Chad, keep up the great work!

NOMINATE CHAD WHITACRE FOR MORE TIPS

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Would it be useful to create this as a google form? Then you could later pull the content from a g-docs spreadsheet and input it into a content box on the main page. Thoughts on the concept as a whole?

[chadwhitacre]

There does need to be some sort of beefier profile for gittip participants. There's a column in the db for a user-provided "statement." (I was thinking, like, an artist's statement).

We can get a person's popular repos on Github programmatically, and that would be good to include for participants with a Github account linked (which is necessarily all of them at the moment).

Maybe on participant pages for those you tip there is a field for "Why do you tip this person?" Anonymous and short as you suggest. Then that shows up in a "Testimonials" section or some such on their page.

Once we have enough velocity the "Here are a few great programmers" section on the homepage should be replaced with something more dynamic (rotating content, #24).

[timothyfcook]

Makes sense to join the "feature nomination" with the actual Tip-function, duh. I kind of like the optional "Thank You" message... a way for folks to say thank you with words as well as $$. In addition to the short "why do you tip this person?" question, it seems important to identify the specific work/projects the person has contributed. Often people have not heard of the person, but they have heard of the project.

Then the rotating content could just flip through tip-ees who have a "statement" and have at least 1 "thank you" message

Rotating content could look like this:

Tip Chad Whitacre

Chad currently has a few tips pledged.

Contributed to: Aspen.io, Gittip, IHasAMoney.com

"Thank you Chad 1. Because you done good Chad 1."
"Thank you Chad 2. Because you done good Chad 2."

[chadwhitacre]

I reticketed the "statement" issue as #33. Going to rework this ticket to address collecting "thank you"s.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from HN.

[justinabrahms]

Big +1 from me too.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @esacteksab on his blog.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @rikai via Twitter.

[chadwhitacre]

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