Re: [UG-ADMINS] Karma System

I guess I'll take the blame since I started this whole discussion.

My personal initiative regarding my thinking about badges and points was to
help exceptional contributors in lesser-known developer communities,
especially in non-English speaking countries, like mine here in Palermo,
Sicily, Italy to get more visibility.

I moved here to Italy six years ago from the U.S. When I was in the U.S.,
we had 2-3 users groups and frequent meetups in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and a things were well organized. Here, I have literally had to create most
of what we have today (I'm experiencing a huge cultural contrast), however
our group is growing with every meeting. Southern Italy is growing, but it
has a long way to grow.

Despite this, we are practically at the southern tip of Europe, it's not
easy with the salaries that people have here to attend conferences and
especially give talks. Having a page on our User Group website for each
member who wishes to have one with what their contributions have been is
one great way to add to their visibility. I was thinking about something to
link to from LinkedIn to help gain recognition, for example.

At this point, based on the feedback received, it's clear that there should
be no globally accepted point and badge system, but rather a way to
recognize the contributions in general of each member. Obviously whether or
not to use a system like this could be decided democratically by the group,
but done in a way to reward some but not penalize others.

I'd still love to put together a rudimentary system built in PHP and
obviously openly hosted on GitHub. Please let me know your thoughts.

Christopher

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Ben Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rafael, thanks so much for elaborating on some of the issues faced by the
> Brazil community. I think I understand the concept and the reasoning behind
> it now. I can certainly understand how this kind of system might be
> necessary in a group with so many willing participants.
>
> it did not suffer from the "thousands of raised hands, but no one shows up
> > when works needs to be done" which most UGs suffer from
>
>
> Yes, I've experienced this many times. What I'd love to hear more about
> (maybe in another thread) is how you were able to introduce the "enabler"
> concept in Amsterdam and how that works.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>



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