[OSM-talk] Awards

[Stefan Baebler]

You mean a mechanism much like trust points, but instead of
aggregating all activitiy in a single number giving people various
colorful awards in different areas for recognizing their work and some
motivation? One of the awards being OSMF membership (or a significant
discount on membership fee)? Sounds nice!

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Stefanb/TrustPoints

(we can call it karma, georank, osm longitude ... :)
Stefan

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Frederik Ramm<frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
> have for their contributors:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
>
> One part of me finds them funny, and interesting, almost as if they come
> from some sort of role playing game. Another part of me abhors the
> implicit hierarchy conferred by such awards, it is almost like service
> ranks in the military.
>
> But whatever one thinks of them, they surely are fun for a lot of
> people, and give them a sense of achievement.
>
> In light of the recent discussions (mostly on osmf-talk) about how we
> might find a way to automatically let people who have a certain number
> of edits or some other small contribution threshold become members of
> OSMF (or at least confer some voting rights to them), we could maybe
> think about how one would algorithmically "value" contributions to OSM,
> yielding not only a set of funny awards we can give to people, but
> perhaps also a definition of who is an "established contributor".
>
> Bear in mind that contributions to OSM are not only edits, but also
> tracks uploaded, Wiki pages edited, code commited to SVN, or tiles
> rendered for tiles at home... and that some edits may require lots of work
> while others can be done almost automatically.
>
> I'm interested to hear everybody's thoughts on the matter.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
>
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