Gamerification in the Community

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, December 09, 2014 12:52:49 Jono Bacon wrote:
> On 9 December 2014 at 11:42, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are lots of upstream developers that do not use Ubuntu or Linux for
> > that matter that are pretty essential to Ubuntu's existence. Some of those
> > contributions upstream are probably even more essential then some
> > contributions that happen downstream.
> 
> I see your point, but I don't consider those to be people in the
> "Ubuntu" community. Do they bring value to Ubuntu, of course, but are
> they part of our community? Not really, they are part of their own
> upstream community.
> 
> Upstreams are the critical ingredients in Ubuntu, but when we are
> discussing about Ubuntu community growth and development, I am
> thinking within the parameters of people who engage directly in
> Ubuntu, it's flavors, or our community (e.g. LoCo Teams).

I agree with this and wish it applied equally regardless of who sponsored the 
upstream work.

Scott K