> I do not think that we need projects to opt in to this. Badges are not aimed > at projects. They are aimed at *people*.
I'm not sure about this. Opt-in would be fine with me. I am worried about gamification and a flood of PRs just to get badges. I think experimenting with a handful of projects first would be ok. Gary On 2024/03/08 14:19:51 Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On Mar 3, 2024, at 11:47 AM, Paulo Motta <pa...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > I've thought a bit more and rather than starting with multiple badges, it > > probably makes more sense to start with a single badge to validate the > > idea. More can be proposed later if the first one is shown to be effective. > > > > I'd propose a pilot badge called 'My First Open Source Contribution' > > awarded to anyone first's contribution to an Apache project that opts-in to > > this badge. This recognition is straightforward to compute and would allow > > testing the program. > > I do not think that we need projects to opt in to this. Badges are not aimed > at projects. They are aimed at *people*. > > I attended a talk last week at FOSS Backstage by Spot Callaway, who started > the Fedora badges program. He said that the guiding principles are: > > * It should be fun, not legalistic. > * It should celebrate non-code accomplishments at least as much as code ones > * It should be easy - it should celebrate people automatically for stuff > they’re already doing, rather than requiring them to go out of their way to > request something, or jump through hoops somehow. > * We should be able to give badges manually, so that we can celebrate > spontaneous things. The example given here is that at every conference where > Fedora has a presence, there’s a QR code that, if you scan it, you get a > badge. This allows people to get badges for everything from attending an > event to landing a patch to sending email to a list to whatever we can think > of. > > We should also have a simple way for people to propose new badges. Spot noted > that the bottleneck with Fedora Badges has always been the design of the > badge, not the lack of ideas. > > If you have an apache ID, you should be able to start earning badges. The > first time you sign into the badge system, you should already have a badge, > because you’ve signed the ICLA and have an apache ID, which is, itself, an > accomplishment. The bar should be *SUPER* low on this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
