Hi, Other foundations such as the linux foundation do have badges for their training courses and certification[1], but I don’t know of any that have badges for making contributions. Openhub does track contribution and awards people a kudos score and badges based on contribution. e.g. [2]
One down side I see badges may make it harder for part time contributors as they get less recognition. People who are paid full time to work on a project will most likely find it easier to gain badges. While this already happens to some extent with projects with high committer bars, it could further demotivate people who can only contribute occassionally. This is likely to impact on the diversity of contributors, and further increase bias. Some of this may depend on how the badge system is designed and if it weighted more towards new contributors or people who been around on a project for some time. The other issue I see is how are the badges awarded? Automatically issuing badges on X commits, on x mails to a mailing list, or when becoming a PMC member or committer seems possible but is likely to be some work. For instance, what if the person doesn’t have an apache id? Depending on the badges it might also easy to game. e.g. if I need 100 commits to get a badge, then I’m going to make lots of small commute rather than one big one. If there a badge for emails send to lest then I’m going to send more emails. I ‘m not sure that this would bee a positive gain for the community. I do see some merit in having badges for committership, PMC membership and the like. These days most digital badges can be shared on linked in and other social media platforms and doing so may help promote the ASF and how it operates. Thanks, Justin 1. https://training.linuxfoundation.org/badges-2/ <https://training.linuxfoundation.org/badges-2/> 2. https://www.openhub.net/p/apache-spark/users <https://www.openhub.net/p/apache-spark/users>
