That's quite a lot of work! I personally hate gamification but agree that it can motivate some people to participate. At the same time I would consider using financial incentives - bounties and the likes. Or probably a mixture of gamification, bounties, commendations and other forms of appreciation.
I'd like to help to give back to the community so if this is a go then I'm in! Ondrej Dne úterý 18. července 2017 3:52:04 UTC+2 Nate Finch napsal(a): > > (sorry for the duplicate post, the other one disappeared) > > I wrote a tweet after Gophercon about making a resolution to write more > blog posts. I used the hashtag #GopherResolution with the hope that other > people might pick up the idea and run with it. So far, however, only one > other person has used the tag. > > There are studies on the effects of making public promises (resolutions) > to act that indicate it is generally effective in getting you to stick to > those resolutions (at least more so than ones you don't announce). > > However, it occurred to me that most resolutions fail because they're too > vague. There's an acronym called SMART that says your goals should be > Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. The > "measurable" one is the interesting one, and where I think we can leverage > software to help us. > > My idea is to make a website where gophers can make specific resolutions > to contribute to the community, and the website can then track those > resolutions over time. For example, a resolution to write blog posts could > be tracked by consuming an RSS Feed. A resolution to contribute to a > particular project could track PRs, issues, etc. The website could track > streaks over time if we give a time box for each contribution (write a blog > post every 2 weeks, or contribute to one open source project every month). > > With dashboards showing top contributors, etc, it could effectively > game-ify community involvement. > > Of course, all of this would take a significant amount of work to code, > but it seems very doable, if enough people would actually participate. > > Thoughts? Is this something you'd be interested in? Do you think it > would be valuable to build? > > -Nate > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
