We don’t need no stinking…

Badges At the intersection of badging and recognition lie some

scalable solutions for supporting and growing your open source project(s)

Larissa Shapiro @larissashapiro

I’m…

…working on “contributor development” within community building full time these days.

…a Mozillian

whose job is to grow contributors and help them connect to meaningful work inside our project,

and, I’m really into building a culture where we recognize each other and grow together. So!

Late afternoon wakeup!

Spectrogram time!

5 minutes. 5 questions: 1. I am having a great time at Open Source Bridge! 2. “I find t-shirts highly motivating” 3. I don’t like to be acknowledged in public 4. I like to earn badges and I think they help people see what I know how to do 5. My open source projects recognize our contributors effectively

Badges Are…

a defined set of skills and activities to be completed

a way to demonstrate publicly what one has learned

a way to organize and count contributions and contributors

and, I hypothesize, *not* a primary recognition form

Recognition is…

how we let each other know that we see the good work people are doing

how we learn more about each other

a culture to be built and nurtured…

How do you like to be recognized? How does your project recognize?

5 minute brainstorm with your neighbor

Learnings

shockingly, not everyone feels good about the same things.

learning and documenting how people want to be recognized, at scale, is hard

check in with people! document!

*be creative!*

Crafty Recognition

now with more fibonacci sequenced knitting projects

We had a contest for someone to guess when we’d hit our millionth bugzilla bug, and when we did, one of our DBAs knitted this scarf for the winner. It’s knitted in a fibonacci sequence

Badges and Recognition: a Comparison/Review

Badges do recognize specific skils and activities

within a context

Recognition takes a persons individual talents and skills into account

Badges identify specific rubric based

skillsets in a community and can allow for counting,

community identification, and more

Interesting Badge Idea

Live demo? discovery.openbadges.org

Resources

wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition/Toolkit badgekit.org

discovery.openbadges.org blog.mozilla.org/community/category/crafting/

Mensch of the Month: blog.webfwd.org/tagged/mom

find me later, talk about more stuff

Larissa Shapiro

lshapiro@mozilla.com

@larissashapiro

contentsmayvary.blogspot.com (blog posts are a rare bird, but they do fly by)