Santa Cruz, CA
For the last decade Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way. As a member of Red Hat's premier community leadership team, he helps with various community activities in the Fedora Project and other projects Red Hat is involved in. As a 15 year IT industry veteran, Karsten has worked most sides of common business equations as an IS manager, professional services consultant, technical writer, and developer advocate.
Karsten lives in his hometown of Santa Cruz, CA with his wife and two daughters on their small urban farm, Fairy-Tale Farm, where they focus on growing their own food and nurturing sustainable community living.
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Is this node a good place to report bugs in the current badging?
For example, the badges appear a bit pixelated and distorted to me. (I can provide a screenshot if the trouble is on my side?)
I see "Founding Member" & "Community Member" people with a "Newbie" badge - it's a confusion that may not going away soon for people who are slower to comment and get the "Newbie" badge put away.
For myself, I have only a "Newbie" badge although I'm fairly sure I've authored articles, made comments, been here since before the site went live, and may even have some moderator rights in a few channels. But I hesitate to encourage everyone to pile bugs on here unless there is no other way? Mailing list is a possibility, but then I reckon some will go unreported.
Since I was someone who was a bit skeptical of point systems in the first place, and had my thinking changed somewhat during our on-list discussions about it, I thought some transparency in to that discussion would help any others who are interested in the various "why do it" thinking:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/osdc-list/2010-December/msg00001.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/osdc-list/2011-January/msg00003.html