The document discusses gamifying an open source community. It defines open source software and communities, using Kubernetes as an example community. It recommends establishing community needs, focusing on all members equally, impacting all parts of the community, and tying the success of any gamification program directly to the success of the community. The key is to automatically recognize contributions using tools like GitHub and Stack Overflow and provide ongoing education, information sharing, and personal branding opportunities to engage and onboard community members.

1. Ryan “Sad Keanu” Quackenbush
Advocacy Programs Manager, Apprenda
Twitter: @RSQuackenbush
Insights Into Gamifying an Open Source
Community

2. Key TakeAways
• Establish The Needs of the Community
• Focus on everyone, but don’t dwell on
anyone
• Impact every arm of your community
• The success of your program is
directly tied to the success of the
community

3. What Is Open Source Software?
“I work with computers, grandma.”

4. Open Source (OSS)
• Apps, Projects or Tools that anyone can modify or share
• Source code or base foundation is publicly available

5. • “For starters, the Internet and the Web would instantly evaporate. Every
Android smartphone, every iPad, iPhone and Mac would go dark. A
massive section of our energy infrastructure would cease to function. The
global stock markets would go offline for weeks, if not longer. Planes
would drop out of the sky. It would be an event on the scale of a world war
or a pandemic.”
• –Steven Johnson; excerpt from his book Interface Culture

6. What is an Open Source Community?
• In a nutshell? A collaborative, public group by and of which the OSS
is developed, committed and shared.

7. Kubernetes

8. The Kubernetes Community

9. GitHub Stack Overflow

11. Automatic Recognition
Authentication with GitHub
- No need for a separate account -
A full integration with GitHub, automatically recognizing Important
Actions Related to the K8s Repository

13. Re-Named for Kubernetes-Sport
(Gamification)
- Community Based -
- Onboarding / Ongoing -
- Information on Industry / Contributors –
- Education -
-Social Amplification -
- Personal Brand -

14. The Path of the Advocate

18. Key TakeAways
• Establish The Needs of the Community
• Focus on everyone, but don’t dwell on anyone
• You goal should be to touch every arm of your community
• The success of your program is directly tied to the success of
the community
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