Hello Marketing Team, I'd like to propose a year-end award for the most active members of the Cassandra community. This is a sort of informal and social online event that could be scheduled before or after the Christmas holidays to recognize all the work that has been done by the community, especially by the most active community members.
>From a marketing perspective, the benefits can be: - Showcase the health of the community; - Encourage community users and contributors to reach new goals by recognizing their work; - Special promotional awards to promote the most valuable features of the 5.0 release; As an award we can present, I suggest creating and giving away virtual online badges. This approach has worked quite well for the Apache Ignite community, where I have been involved for a while, and it would be good to see something like this in our community as well. An example of such badges can be found here [1] (they can be added to a LinkedIn profile by the person who received them). We can come up with our own badge names both formal and informal, that fit our purpose: Cassandra's Fortune Teller (a person who has fixed the most bugs), or Cassandra Top Contributor 2023 etc. I have collected a few platforms that will help us to implement this proposal, but, we are not limited to only this list of platforms: credly's recognition platform https://info.credly.com/product/acclaim Open Badge Factory https://openbadgefactory.com/en/ I know that these platforms are not free to use, but my search query didn't include the free-to-use criteria of the search. The goal was to show the best side of the idea, and if we agree on the next steps, I'll try to find other platforms to consider. Please, share your thoughts. [1] https://www.credly.com/skills/apache-ignite/related_badges --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
