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

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Yes. I don't believe in human metrics that remove human judgment from
the equation, hence the deference to the team coordinators.

regards.

-walter

>
> 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.
>>
>



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Walter Bender
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