Some of you will remember this; some, probably not.
We once had a weekly feature called "Friends of the Tree" where community members that had made recent significant contributions were recognized.
Friends of the Tree showed up as a highlighted block of content at the top of each week's status report with the contributor's name, the reason for their being called out, and the name of the person who nominated them.
It was a very simple system with nominations emailed to a maintainer who posted them along with the weekly status reports. We're posting weekly updates to the Mozilla wiki these days and I think that's a fine place for us to restore the Friends of the Tree tradition.
So, if you know of contributors who have gone above and beyond, or otherwise deserve a special notice, please email me with that contributor's name and their good deed(s). I'll update once a week but the nominations can cover any contributions in the last few weeks. That way we don't miss saying "thanks" just because the good work came late in the week.
Oh, and one more note. Friends of the tree began when the Mozilla community was dominated by engineers, hence the name. But we're a much larger and more inclusive community today so please don't limit your nominations to people working in the code.
And to give you a taste of what it was back in the old days, here are a few examples: 2001-10-31, 2000-09-13, 2001-09-13, 2001-08-30, and 1999-11-17. Oh, and here's one more.
