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We've recently made some changes to the Opensource.com points and badge system that we'd like to inform you about. Based on feedback we got from our readers and Community Moderators, we have recently implemented the changes outlined below. Depending on how many points you have accumulated, you may have a new badge assigned to your account due to these recent changes.

About the changes

The first three levels have remained the same. Then, we replaced Rock Star with a new badge called: "Open Minded" and split the point level in half to achieve the next badge: "Open Source Evangelist." Next, we split the level of "Open Source Sensei" in half and added the badge: "Open source champion."

The new list of points and badge levels look like:

  • Newbie (0-9 points)
  • Community Member (10-29 points)
  • Open Enthusiast (30-99 points)
  • Open Minded (100-499 points)
  • Open Source Evangelist (500-999 points)
  • Open Source Champion (1,000-2,499 points)
  • Open Source Sensei (2,500-4,999 points)
  • Open Sorcerer (5,000+ points)

Change log

  1. Replace the badge "Rock Star" with "Open Minded," reduce 999 points to 499 (now 100-499 points)
  2. Add Open Source Evangelist (500-999 points)
  3. Add Open Source Champion (1,000-2,499 points)
  4. Move Open Source Sensei up to the 2,500 level (2,500-4,999 points)

Why did we make these changes?

After earning 100 points many community members told us that it was duanting to see the next point-level at 1,000 points. Our goal was to make the next level more achievable. Similarly, moving up from 1,000 points to 5,000 was too big of a gap. We renamed the "Rock Star" badge to be more inline with our theme of openness. We feel that the updated points and badges system now offers a nice progression and reflects our communities feedback on highlighting their passion for open source.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know. We believe this new point structure, with additional badges, allows our community to achieve new levels at a faster pace through their site participation. The page describing our points and badges syste has been updated to reflect these changes: opensource.com/points-and-badges.

Thanks for everyone's feedback during this process, it's exciting to see the changes come to life.

 

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Jason Hibbets
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Jason Hibbets is a Community Director at Red Hat with the Digital Communities team. He works with the Enable Architect, Enable Sysadmin, Enterprisers Project, and Opensource.com community publications.
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Aseem Sharma | February 28, 2014
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Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

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Marcus D. Hanwell | March 20, 2014
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I think the new badge names and thresholds are very positive changes, we really appreciate all the work that goes into this community. I will try to stop slacking/being ill and get back to writing so that I can be an open source champion ;-)

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Michael Harrison | March 21, 2014
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We'll hold you to that, Marcus. :) Feel better!

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Shane Curcuru | May 15, 2014
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Indeed - feel better.

That's the best thing about participating in well-governed open source communities - the sense of family and friendship you often find. I'm incredibly lucky to be a long-time Apache Software Foundation Member, and the sense of community in many Apache projects is great.

Best personal-interest story: we have internal (private) mailing lists for discussions, and besides the baby announcements, the best ever email essentially said: "We're getting married in Vegas and need some witnesses - who's in?"

(Plus, I figured this is a great thread to spam on to get my badge points up! LOL)

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Michael Harrison | May 15, 2014
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Definitely! We've seen comments on other blogs turned off, for one reason or another. I don't know if that's something we'll ever really consider here, simply for the fact that our community is one of the best on the internet.

Here's to future Opensource.com meetups in the physical space!

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