[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #3878: Adding Badges for WordCamp Volunteers and Attendees

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#3878: Adding Badges for WordCamp Volunteers and Attendees
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 Reporter:  sebastienserre           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:
Component:  Profiles                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch 2nd-opinion  |
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Comment (by andreamiddleton):

 I think finding an easy way to provide badges to WordCamp volunteers is a
 great idea, thanks for revisiting this!

 On the subject of badges for WordPress event attendance... if I understand
 the argument in favor, it seem that Taco and Jono are arguing that
 participation = contribution.

 When I try to apply that argument to other parts of WordPress, it doesn't
 hold up very well. If I ask a question in the support forums, I am
 **participating** in the forums. My question, if answered and resolved,
 might be of use to others who have a similar question and read the thread
 later, but the primary beneficiary of that action is me. Asking a question
 in the support forums does not get me a badge. A consistent practice of
 **answering** questions in the support forums will, though.

 It seems to me that attending a WordCamp, with no other level of
 involvement, is similar to asking a question in the support forums, or
 using a translated version of WordPress. The primary beneficiary of the
 action is the person **taking** the action, rather than the organization
 as a whole.


 That said... in 2014, some people working on WordCamp San Francisco worked
 out a (fairly hacky) way to display event registration and attendance on
 the activity log, as you can see in this example.

 [[Image(https://cloudup.com/c7571bdqmW4)]]

 If people wanted to work on a way to make WordCamp registration and
 attendance reliably (and with consent) show up in the WordPress.org
 profile activity stream, I think that would be a really cool enhancement.

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