Please allow me to clarify. The badge is a certification method that can’t be fudged, not an award if any kind.
Being apart of the ASF is it’s own award. This is just a certified badge that proves it and can’t be fudged like a “Microsoft certified” graphic, for example. I can claim ASF membership, I’m not a member, but a committer, and in my own attic-ed podling (new podling proposals coming soon). It’s not only good for community development, but validating ASF participation digitally using digital certification methods. The badge is also a method to verify membership/participation status programmatically via an infra API (tie into LDAP maybe?) On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:22 PM Sheng Wu <wu.sheng.841...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here are my 0.2 cents. > On one side, some people will like this idea to show how much they did for > the open-source and ASF projects. It would be a big encouragement for > people around them. From this perspective, it is good for community > development. > On the other hand, this could be treated as a kind of award, and people and > companies are going to over-marketing these again and again. Like comparing > which project has more stars, contributors, issues. Like have been > mentioned, this could be harmful to the contributors doing the open-source > for fun in the free time and join and go randomly. > > My idea is, don't take this as an official one from the foundation level. > Committer and PMC membership should have been enough. > Some projects provide this kind of things because their PMC(or called core > maintainer team) usually don't accept individual or people working in the > free time as a member of PMC, but this is not the case in ASF. > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > Matthew Sacks <matt...@matthewsacks.com> 于2021年4月5日周一 下午4:42写道： > > > Summary: Digital Merit badges > > ASF participation and responsibility are based on merit. So like other > > merit-based organizations, why not have a digital merit badge. It would > > slow your name and summarize your involvement and contributions > (volunteer, > > committer, member, board member, founding member, etc.). > > Also, what projects you work on. > > > > Other examples of design: Trust Certification badges: > > > > > https://trustarc.com/truste-certifications/enterprise-privacy-certification/ > > > > What it’s not: social score, that’s not what I’m proposing. > > > > If an ASF member, committee, and volunteer involvement are based on > merit, > > why not have a digital merit badge that shows what they’ve done? > > > > Like other organizations based on merit, there are usually badges > > recognizing one's contributions to that contributor. > > > > I’m thinking to list the following on the badge: > > - committer, member, volunteer, board member, founder, etc > > - year joined > > > > If you click the badge, it will take you to a profile page with: > > - Projects they contribute/contributed to > > - Apachcon participation, presentations, etc > > - Apache.org personal homepage (if they have one) > > > > From a marketing perspective, it also expands the ASF “brand” and > > reputation. You have many of the best software engineers and IT > > professionals in the world helping make better software available to > > commercial companies as well as public organizations and individuals > > > > If LinkedIn displayed a dynamically generated badge validated by an > > ASF-hosted infra API (blockchain validated) on Roy Fielding or JimJag’s > > LinkedIn page, for example, wouldn’t that be of interest in expanding ASF > > reach? It could increase volunteering, donations, page views, and more > > benefits. > > > > Not just LinkedIn, but maybe RedHat, Microsoft, maybe Apple (probably > not), > > Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google could get a Platinum sponsor badge to show their > > pride for supporting the ASF as a major corporation. More corporations > will > > follow suit. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > -- > > Thank you, Matthew > > > -- Thank you, Matthew
