[IAEP] [SLOBS] Revised certification proposal being discussed at the SLOBs meeting

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

Congratulations for a what I see as a good initiative.

I respectfully submit that such a scheme also take into account the 
stepness of the effort involved, not just the output (though measuring 
outputs is important, yes? :-) )

While recognising effective contributors is great, please take into the 
balance what "giants" (cf. Newton's quote and preexisting advantages and 
opportunities) some are standing on, while others maybe did little in 
objective terms, but that little was an incredible stretch, up from an 
almost barren nothing, à la Mark 12:42

On 08/05/2011 10:10 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> Following up on a thread begun in mid July
> (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html) I
> would like to discuss the following proposal this morning:
>
> Sugar Labs will award certificates to developers to acknowledge and
> celebrate their contributions to the Sugar Learning Platform. Several
> certificates will be made available, based upon the area of
> contribution.
>
> The Sugar X Contributor certificate will be given to an individual who
> over the course of a sustained effort contributes to some Sugar
> community team, e.g., Sugar Translation Contributor. (The teams are
> listed on the wiki). The specific criteria for certification will be
> determined by the team coordinators, but in general, it would involve
> a repeated effort on behalf of the team's goals at a high level of
> quality (e.g., of quality sufficient to be incorportated into our
> offerings).
>
> As an example, the Activity team will issue a Sugar Activity Developer
> certificate to an individual who develops at least one Sugar activity
> that is subsequently posted on the Sugar activity portal and be of
> sufficient quality to be approved for public release. The activity
> must also include internationalization, including the submission of a
> POT file to the Translation Team, and documentation, including the
> creation of a page in the wiki under the Activity category. As will
> the Contributor certificates, sign off will be made by the associated
> team coordinators, in this case the Activity team.
>