On 2014-11-10 10:58, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > On 09/11/14 21:44, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >>> With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering >>> whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with >>> opportunities for contribution formulated as a list of specific tasks, >>> instead of general avenues, would be helpful in overcoming this >>> initial difficulty. (This would be in addition to mentors.debian.net >>> and other established avenues for entry to Debian, not a replacement). >> This is an avenue that I'm interested in exploring for the BTS as well, >> so if people have good ideas, or want to be involved with this, please >> contact me in #debbugs on irc.debian.org, or email >> ow...@bugs.debian.org. >> > > Are you guys thinking of something like the Fedora "badges" or Ubuntu > "accomplishments" ?
I wasn't aware of these, and they certainly look very interesting. I didn't have this in mind when I wrote my original submission; I was only thinking in terms of tasks as steps to complete when working towards eventual DM or DD status. But I can see that rewarding individual tasks with badges and the like can have their appeal, especially for newcomers not yet having aspirations of becoming DM/DD, instead only wishing to contribute a little something back to Debian, even if it's just a one-off thing. I think rewarding contributions in this fashion is a great way to inspire an "I'm part of this" feeling in contributors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/98f7c00f05c2dbf0e262e3fb55a44...@kvr.at
