Recognizing and identifying contributors

[mhanratty]

Need to think of ways we can recognize and identify contributors. In particular we need to start thinking of user profiles (either building our own or leveraging Mozillians).

[brampitoyo]

Currently, we’ve thought of issuing contributors exclusive rewards every time our editorial team features their creations. The rewards can be badges, points or anything. There are definitely more ways to do this. Remember that many contributors do it not because they’re looking for any material gain out of it!

Here are a few more ways I’ve thought of:

• Recognise individual contributor’s personality in the front page. Let’s interview them about all sorts of things that aren’t just about the content they’ve created for Marketplace. For example: history of contribution with Mozilla, why they think it’s cool, how has it helped them in life, why should readers care about becoming a contributor? Showcase their avatars, showcase their lives visually, and finally, we can showcase a select number of collections that they’ve created.
• Provide a place to communicate, vent, ideate and give feedback. We’ve talked about having some sort of a forum where contributors congregate. We’ve also talked about having a Marketplace Labs, where contributors could co-design and beta test new features and content type with us.
• Help contributors give back to their communities. Rather than giving away swags, gift cards, points or badges, let’s help our most active contributors benefit their communities. For example: throw a Developer Apps Day event in cities where the Marketplace contributors are the most active. It strengthens local communities rather than just help individual contributors.
• Elect contributors to a bigger role. We’ve talked about how a contributor could theme their country’s Community page for everybody to see. What about making them guest editors of the regional Home Feed? What about making them translator admins for their locales, responsible for coordinating and maintaining localisations of new apps?

What else?

[atsay]

User profiles would be great, and could be a starting point for making Marketplace more interactive. Also, a recent use case that came up was when a contributor wanted to point us to all the apps he'd built, but there wasn't one place that listed them.