<div dir="ltr">+1 to Rohit. I am new too and looking forward to help in cinder part of OpenStack for starters.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Rohit Vaidya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohitvvv@gmail.com" target="_blank">rohitvvv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am new to open stack and python. But I really liked the live community here and great suggestions that crop up. This one is seriously good and helps new people stay motivated. I installed dev stack on my sluggish laptop and that's all. Could not move any further. Looking forward to taking the next step. Keep up with the good work people. <br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Rohit Vaidya<div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, wu jiang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wingwj@gmail.com" target="_blank">wingwj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1. This looks very interesting. :)<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Russell Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbryant@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbryant@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On 02/12/2014 11:35 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:<br>
> On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote:<br>
>> At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of<br>
>> helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code<br>
>> reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before<br>
>> screaming in a chat room "can someone look at my branch". We want this<br>
>> experience to be positive, but not everyone has time to hand-hold new<br>
>> people in the dance.<br>
>><br>
>> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we<br>
>> should consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer<br>
>> badges, quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to<br>
>> being strong contributors?<br>
>><br>
>> "Fixed your first bug" badge<br>
>> "Updated the docs" badge<br>
>> "Got your blueprint approved" badge<br>
>> "Triaged a bug" badge<br>
>> "Reviewed a branch" badge<br>
>> "Contributed to 3 OpenStack projects" badge<br>
>> "Fixed a Cells bug" badge<br>
>> "Constructive in IRC" badge<br>
>> "Freed the gate" badge<br>
>> "Reverted branch from a core" badge<br>
>> etc.<br>
>><br>
>> These can be strung together as Quests to lead people along the path.<br>
>> It's more than karma and less sterile than stackalytics. The<br>
>> Foundation could even promote the rising stars and highlight the<br>
>> leader board.<br>
>><br>
>> There are gamification-as-a-service offerings out there [2] as well as<br>
>> Fedora Badges [3] (python and open source) that we may want to<br>
>> consider.<br>
>><br>
>> Thoughts?<br>
>> -Sandy<br>
>><br>
>> [1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="http://gamify.com/" target="_blank">http://gamify.com/</a> (and many others)<br>
>> [3] <a href="https://badges.fedoraproject.org/" target="_blank">https://badges.fedoraproject.org/</a><br>
><br>
> +1 from me, if this can be done without a huge amount of ongoing<br>
> maintenance for someone. I will admit that climbing the reviewstats<br>
> "leaderboard" is good motivation for those days when I just don't feel<br>
> like reviewing. Ditto for Launchpad karma. :-)<br>
<br>
</div></div>I really like the badges idea. It sounds like a really fun way to<br>
encourage folks. It's a refreshing alternative to just looking at raw<br>
numbers all the time.<br>
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--<br>
Russell Bryant<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><span></span>Thanks,</div><div>Ibad Khan</div><div>9686594607</div></div>
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