Something similar to tech stack badges that are awarded to top authors writing about open source.
Some other ideas could be:
GitHub + Open Source (since the open-source community is on GitHub)
Specific badges like open source expert or for maintainers.
For instance, someone sharing their new project as open source, so the project admin or someone discussing their experience as a maintainer (or related posts) can receive the open source maintainer badge.
There can be more, but this can set up a starting point.
I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
We also have badges for participating in Hacktoberfest as a contributor or maintainer.
That said, I like the different twists you've come up here. We'll definitely consider these thoughts.
For the GitHub + Open Source one you mentioned, we could potentially give folks badges for connecting their GitHub accounts to their DEV accounts. This would be easy enough for us to do automatically and it'd be beneficial to encourage folks to do so!
You will love the badge until they one day change it and you struggle differing it from another badge because that just happened with the recent "updated" badges. Who truly wants 10 versions of the same badge?!
😂 I think I'm gonna write another 12 things you didn't know about DEV.
Didn't know about sloan series :)
@thepracticaldev
Please add a badge for open source. I'd love it.
We would love to see another installment!!!!
What specific open source badges are you looking for? Can pass this along to the team!
While there can be several badges:
I'd love it if the dev team could include this.
Some other ideas could be:
There can be more, but this can set up a starting point.
These are awesome! Sharing with our team. Thank you!
Good ideas @anmolbaranwal!
Just to note we do have this DEV Contributor badge if you contribute to the Forem codebase on GitHub.
We also have badges for participating in Hacktoberfest as a contributor or maintainer.
That said, I like the different twists you've come up here. We'll definitely consider these thoughts.
For the GitHub + Open Source one you mentioned, we could potentially give folks badges for connecting their GitHub accounts to their DEV accounts. This would be easy enough for us to do automatically and it'd be beneficial to encourage folks to do so!
You will love the badge until they one day change it and you struggle differing it from another badge because that just happened with the recent "updated" badges. Who truly wants 10 versions of the same badge?!
I'm okay with that. At least give me one badge. LOL!🤣