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Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.
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I do know about them, but I had thought of them as primarily being for more educational achievements that really showed you accomplished something. It does sound like our badges might qualify though. We'll check back in January when they're accepting issuers. Thanks for the suggestion!
If you only earned points for writing, I would definitely see it. But since you can earn points just for rating articles or leaving short comments, it didn't seem like as much of an achievement. They do give StackOverflow's version of karma as an example though, so I think that's probably similar enough that we'd count.