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 >
