In addition to all the points raised here - the creation, distribution and availability of badges through a badging automation system also enhances the trust and confidence in this process. That is, the viewership of these badges can easily understand that they represent a finite piece of accomplishment and can also be easily followed back to the actual accomplishment and achievement themselves.
/s On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 7:06 PM Marie Nordin <mnor...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I am really glad we are having this conversation! I have been a big part of > the Badges project over the years and its definitely close to my heart, so we > can keep that bias in mind ;) I have also been sad to see development > declining on the project as it just isn't new and shiny anymore, and the > technologies underneath don't seem too exciting for anyone for to work with. > I would like to think if we brought it to a more modern place, the Websites & > Apps team would be interested and able in being part of maintenance and > perhaps development of features. > > The last time I put some effort into reviving things on the development side > was in 2019 at Flock in Budapest. We had a short hackfest to identify the > needs of the project, we also looked at usability and did some testing. From > that we were able to pull together enough direction and work to bring on an > Outreachy intern: Snehal, mentored by Misc & Sayan. Snehals internship was > over before the work was completed. I believe this is the work with badgr and > python 3 that is referenced earlier in this thread. > > All of Matthew's points about the value of badges are spot on! I have a > couple more points to add. > > 1. This app was introduced in 2013 and after 8 years of integration with our > ecosystem it is now ingrained in Fedora's culture. Badge designs range from > community "inside jokes" and if you look through the designs you will see our > collective humor is entrenched in the designs. I have had *many, many* > conversations with Fedora folks over the years about badges, and how much > they *LOVE* them. We would have a lot of very very disappointed people if > badges were to retire. > > 2. Our badges system puts us in front of an important issue in open source > volunteer communities- how to provide recognition and incentive. We should > try to be a model of how to do this, and hopefully do it well. I have heard > stories of other communities looking to us for ideas of how to do various > things, and I hope we can keep the Badges success story going. > > 3. Badges help empower our contributors by allowing them to reward each > other. This helps solidifies folks identities as leaders of > initiatives/projects/teams. > > 4. Badges is an *amazing* onboarding tool for the Design Team as well as > application tool for Outreachy and other design related mentorships. Beyond > that- it would be really sad to see the program end from the design > perspective because it showcases the work of dozens of artists from the > Fedora community. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
