I wonder if there shouldn't be a certification for "Sugar Animators" or something like this (actually I'd like to find a better word than "animator"). I'm thinking on the people that contributes keeping the community or a local lab moving on: Organizing events, coordinating teams of programmers or educators, making public Sugar advocacy, doing bureaucratic stuff needed to keep Sugar Labs or a local lab working, looking for resources, etc.<div> </div><div>It's not that I want a certification that fits me ;-) IMHO they're important actors that should be recognized.</div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Following up on a thread begun in mid July (<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html</a>) 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: Sugar X Contributor; Sugar Activity Developer; and Sugar Core Developer. The Sugar X Contributor certificate will be given to an individual who over the course of a sustained effort of at least 6 months 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). The Sugar Activity Developer certificate will be given 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. The Sugar Core Developer certificate will be given to an individual who over the course of one year makes significant contributions to the Sugar core libraries, e.g., sugar-toolkit or sugar. Sign off will be made by the Developer team coordinators. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> </div>