oh, forgot to ask about "karma" as mentioned on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing_meetings/2008-11-06/Displaying_testing_metrics_in_motivating_ways">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing_meetings/2008-11-06/Displaying_testing_metrics_in_motivating_ways</a><br>
<br>On another project I help with (one netbook per child with Ubuntu and municipal wifi, so some significant cross over) Tom set up <a href="http://questions.manaiakalani.org/">http://questions.manaiakalani.org/</a> by using the <a href="http://www.osqa.net/">http://www.osqa.net/</a> system with the plan being that the children write the questions and answers about their netbooks, their wifi and related learning questions. <br>
That system has a good karma system, and we set it up after Stack Overflow - <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">http://stackoverflow.com/</a> - came up in conversation. <br><br>Is there a suitable tool that is as easy to use and has karma features like OSQA?<br>
<br>Another site sugarlabs types (unofficially?) used briefly was <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs">http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs</a> which had ways to give people points I think. You can star a good answer. <br>
<br>Moodle.org uses ratings in its forums and that quickly identifies the "particularly helpful moodlers". This encourages people to write good replies to be awarded this status badge. This is another interesting model for engaging users and helping people identify which answers are most likely to be accurate. <br>
<br>Unfortunately, I don't know of any examples in the land of testing as the only interaction I really have with testing is OLPC. If anyone does testing for a job and can share other examples, that might help us?<br>
<br>Tabitha<br>