Hi Juanjo, Thanks so much for starting this discussion!
One of my concerns w/r/t/ a badge system is recognizing and giving merit to all contributors. It should be relatively straightforward to set up badge triggers based on bugs and git commits, but do you have any ideas on how to support and appreciate other kinds of contributions? Another potential issue is the lack of single sign-on for the different tools we use to contribute to GNOME. Do you have any ideas on how Vinicius was planning to work around that for the GNOME Community site? On a similar note, I think there are a number of things we can do to recognize and promote participation. It would be really awesome if teams could regularly give kudos to new contributors doing significant work, or if we could recognize people involved in ours releases similarly to how WordPress does: http://wordpress.org/news/2013/12/parker/. Cheers, Fabiana On Jan 8, 2014 11:12 PM, "Juanjo Marín" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ! > > Since we switched the name from the marketing team to the engagement team > my thoughts about what have to do has changed a bit. As consequence, I'm > more concerned about promoting the participation into the GNOME project. Of > course, we still must help to communicate what GNOME is, what we are doing, > but it is true that we can also have to to encourage participation of new > and old contributors. > > One of the things we could do in this area is using a gamification > badge-system in order to encourage the participation in the project. It is > quite difficult to know the motivations behind of all our contributors, > aside to help to this awesome project, but I think a badge system can add > some value to the contributions and encourage some people to do more. A > badge can be considered as a reward for certain amount of work that > deserves some kind of recognition. A good thing about badges is that this > recoignition can be used outside the project, for example when looking for > a job. > > Though the concept is pretty simple, the design of the badge system has to > be done carefully. The goal is to encourage people to start contributing > and also to convey contributors into the process of learning and mastery by > contributing more. > > This system has associated several problems. For example, people will > attempt to exploit any system in which there is something they deem of > value, that can result in weird behaviour. For example, if we give a badge > for a certain number of bugs opened in bugzilla, the number of duplicated > bugs can raised. > > At the end, what we need is a system that rewards the work done in the > project. But I think that with an appropiated interface can also us help to > give some information about what people are doing (communicate GNOME). I am > very fan of the work of Vinicius Depizzol did for the GNOME Community web > page. > > > http://softwarelivre.org/rss/planetas/gnome-brasil/vinicius-depizzol-gsoc-weekly-update-8 > > Hey folks, what do you think ? Is it a good idea to have anything like > this for GNOME ? Maybe something different like a karma system point ? Can > we do that ? Can we do a plan ? > > Just my two cents about this topic, mostly brain storming :-) > > Cheers, > > -- Juanjo Marin > > PS: Other Free Software projects has some implementations of this > > Mozilla (they seem to have the FLOSS badge standard) > http://openbadges.org > > Fedora > https://badges.fedoraproject.org/about > > Ubuntu > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > >
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