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GitLab Nominations for Community Swag

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Let's Award Contributors Together

We want to recognize amazing contributions from the wider community with GitLab swags. All GitLab team members and members of the wider community are encouraged to nominate others or themselves (for campaigns such as #myfirstMRmerge).

We'll be using Printfection's giveaway links to make this happen.

Include Everyone

If you think that someone deserves a swag prize, nominate them! If you reached an important campaign milestone (e.g. #myfirstMRmerged) with your contribution, you can also nominate yourself!

Eligibility

Anyone who you feel deserves an extra special something for their contribution, comment, or community involvement is eligible for swag.

This can include, (but is not limited to):

For cases not listed above, use your best judgement, and create a merge request to add new cases to the list.

Eligibility for Self Nomination

If you've contributed to our community or reached an important campaign milestone, you're eligible to self nominate for GitLab swag. Note that to self nominate, you must provide relevant links and evidence of your contributions to be evaluated by the GitLab team.

Contribution Notes for Self Nomination
#myfirstMRmerged Must include link the merged MR
Community Blog Post Must include link to published blog post
GitLab Forum Answer Must include link to high quality answer provided on the GitLab Forum
Meetup/Presentation Must include link to the meetup/event page

Nomination Process

The following process can be used either

That's it! The Code Contributor Program Manager will be in touch with the person nominated on how to get the swag!

The form is reviewed on the first and third Friday of each month, and you can check the status of each nomination on column K of the form's spreadsheet (only for GitLab Team members).

Form Processing by Community Relations Team

  1. The Community Relations team will review the nomination request and send the merchandise to the wider community member.
  2. If the application is valid, generate a giveaway link for the appropriate campaign using the Printfection Chrome extenstion
  3. For #myfirstMRmerged nominations, generate a code from the First MR Merged Giveaway
  4. For all other nominations, generate a code from the Community Contributions Campaign
  5. Communicate the giveaway link and code to the community member via email, Twitter DM, confidential issue, or any other communication form used with the person.

Email Template

Hi [NAME]!

The GitLab team has noticed the awesome support you provide on [Social Channel] to users asking questions about GitLab.

We'd love to recognize your efforts with some free GitLab swag!
The link below will take you directly to an order form where you can choose your favorite GitLab swag item.

[Giveaway Link] / [Code]

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. Thanks for your contributions to the GitLab community!

Twitter Templates

Tweets:

:clap: Congrats! Send us an email at merch@gitlab.com and we can send some GitLab swag your way! :heart_eyes:

Direct Messages:

We'd love to thank you for your contributions to GitLab StackOverflow questions with some GitLab Swag! You can use this link to place an order, free of charge, and choose your favorite GitLab swag items. [Giveaway Link]/[Code] Thanks again for supporting StackOverflow users by answering their GitLab questions!

Finding Community Member Contact Information

This section outlines the strategies that GitLab team member might use to contact community members during this process

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