Re: [UG-ADMINS] Karma System

Hi Paulo,
     I can see how this information may be beneficial to organizers, but 
from a member's point of view, it seems like it is making UG membership 
into a scoreboard where your worth to the group is publicly displayed. I 
can only see this as something that would hurt the group. People who 
have lots of free time are more able to rack up the points, and now 
someone who is more busy or is a newer programmer (so they are not ready 
to contribute by speaking, programming, etc.) is now discounted as 
someone who is not-as-important. Also, how would new members ever be 
able to catch up to people who had been in the group longer?
     I'm all for letting UGs work on projects that they find useful for 
their specific use cases, but I feel that this project would only be 
divisive and does not foster a welcoming environment for many types of 
attendees.
Beth



On 4/27/15 2:12 PM, Paulo Eduardo wrote:
> Hello all, how are you?
>
> A few months ago, someone here on the mailing list ask about a badge system
> to gamefy experience of the communities members, last saturday i talked
> with Cal Evans at PHP Experience (a PHP Conference at São Paulo) about a
> Karma system that we at PHPSP are thinking about, so he asked me to send an
> e-mail here explaining the idea.
>
> But first let me tell a bit more about the motivations of the idea, a few
> of you may already know that PHPSP is the São Paulo User Group, and here we
> try to take decisions all together, something close to a democracy where
> every active member have a voice on the community and can vote on
> importante topics
>
> The problem is that is a little difficult to define "active member", só we
> thought about a karma system where the member can earn points of
> participation in differente types of activities on the User Group, things
> like:
>
>     - Attende at an event
>     - Talk at an event
>     - Contribute on open source projects of the group
>     - Create content for the UG blog
>     - and so on....
>
> So by doing any of those activities, the member will earn a predefined
> number of points, and the total ammount of points the member has could lead
> to some benefits such as:
>
>     - Discounts in events
>     - Badges
>     - Vote right
>     - Freebies like T-shirst and stickers
>     - Admim privileges at social networks
>     - and so on....
>
> But the opposite is also true, the meber who spent a little while without
> make any contributions to the communitie will also loose some points. This
> way we think we can put in numbers what is in fact being an "active member".
>
> So the point of all this is that we was willing to make this system by
> ourselfs at PHPSP, but this could became much better if the communities all
> over the world want to make a big one. So what do you think folks? Is it a
> good idea? are you willing to make it happen?
>
> Thanks a lot and sorry for the huge post.
> Paulo Eduardo
> www.pauloeduardo.com
> www.psyco.com.br
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