Re: Encouraging participation with gamification

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2014-01-15 08:00, Juanjo Marín wrote:

> On a similar note, I think there are a number of things we can do to 
> recognize and promote participation. It would be really awesome if 
> teams could regularly give kudos to new contributors doing significant 
> work, or if we could recognize people involved in ours releases 
> similarly to how WordPress does: 
> http://wordpress.org/news/2013/12/parker/.
>
>
> I think the kudos sounds like a very good idea :-) and it works to
> fill the gap of activities not covered by bugs and git commits to some
> extent and give a more human touch.

+1! Also, we could send t-shirts or some other swag to newcomers who 
distinguish themselves with a significant amount of work. We'd just need 
infrastructure to make sure we understand clearly who those people are.

karen