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This tag is used for posts in my weekly series, “Gotta Badge ‘Em All”, which explains a variety of Fedora badges, what they are, and how to earn them. https://badges.fedoraproject.org/explore/badges

Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Speak Up!

2016 January 4 / / 0 Comments

This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Speak Up! badge!

“Speak Up!”: What is it?

Speak Up! badge, awarded to any participant in a Fedora IRC meeting

“Participated in an IRC meeting.”

The Speak Up! badge is categorized as a “Community Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Speak Up! badge?

In short, the Speak Up! badge is awarded to anyone who says something in an official Fedora IRC meeting. A lot of important conversations and work in Fedora all happen in IRC, and meetings are the best time to get the pulse of a particular subgroup or team. It’s also a great time to introduce yourself to other contributors and begin moving towards becoming an active contributor. This badge is a great gateway towards earning many others!

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Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Vacation

2015 December 21 / / 0 Comments

This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Vacation badge!

“Vacation”: What is it?

Vacation badge, given to contributors who mark when they're away in a calendar

“Sip the lemonade away (You deserve it for remembering your responsibility)!”

The Vacation badge is categorized as a “Community Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Science badge?

With the December holiday season right around the corner, this seemed like the perfect badge to feature this week. In short, the Vacation badge is awarded to contributors who mark when they will be unavailable in the Fedora Calendar app. Marking when you are helps others know when you will be away and know where to pick up the slack. If you an active contributor to any subgroup, team, or other entity in Fedora, this is especially important so people know when you will be away! Everyone needs a vacation every once in a while, so let others know when “the doctor is in” becomes the “the doctor is out”.

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Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Science

2015 December 14 / / 6 Comments

This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Science badge!

“Science”: What is it?

Science badge, given to Fedora kernel testers

“You completed a run of the kernel regression test suite”

The Science badge is categorized as a “Quality [Assurance] Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Science badge?

In short, the Science badge is part of a larger series of badges given to anyone who helps test the Fedora kernel using a set of Python scripts to test for important functionalities of the kernel in your system. Running these tests and uploading the logs to the Kernel Development Team helps improve the kernel by providing useful insight and feedback for the kernel team to analyze. All it takes is running a few scripts, uploading logs, and boom – a new badge!

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Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Extra! Extra!

2015 December 7 / / 0 Comments

“Extra! Extra!”: What is it?

Extra! Extra! badge, given to Fedora Magazine contributors

“You contributed to Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)”

The Extra! Extra! badge is categorized as a “Content Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Extra! Extra! badge?

In short, the Extra! Extra! badge is awarded to Fedora contributors that write an article for the Fedora Magazine, the premiere publication offered by the Fedora Project. The Fedora Magazine offers user-oriented content relating to the Fedora Project, whether it’s a how-to on using some awesome software, a major event report, or other cool things happening in the Linux world.
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Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Telegraphist

2015 November 30 / / 0 Comments

Telegraphist: What is it?

Telegraphist badge, for mapping names to packages

“You mapped an upstream project to a Fedora package on release-monitoring.org“

The Telegraphist badge is categorized as a “Quality [Assurance] Badge” and is defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Telegraphist badge?

In short, Telegraphist is awarded to Fedora contributors and users who map the names of their favorite upstream projects to packages available in Fedora. This makes it easier for developers and users to monitor updates on their favorite packages, and to make sure that new versions of upstream software are packaged and made available in Fedora. The software backing this site is called Anitya, and you can use it now on release-monitoring.org! The original announcement for this site was made by Ralph Bean on the developers mailing list in February 2015.

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Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Parselmouth

2015 November 23 / / 0 Comments

Parselmouth: What is it?

Parselmouth Badge, for Python 3 porting

“You can speak Python and helped with porting stuff to Python 3.”

The Parselmouth badge is categorized as a “Miscellaneous Badge” and was defined in this Trac ticket. But what’s the real scoop behind the Parselmouth badge?

In short, Parselmouth is awarded to Fedora contributors who assist in porting Python 2 packages in Fedora to Python 3. As of present date, the current version of Fedora (Fedora 23) defaults to using Python 3 for new installs. While Python 2 is easily installed, there are still a large number of packages that are not up to date to using the latest version of the language. As recognized by the developers of the programming language and the countless that use it, Python 3 is the future, and it is important that Fedora helps lead the way towards making Python 3 the standard.

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Gotta Badge ‘Em All: Introduction to Fedora Badges

2015 November 23 / / 3 Comments

What is this?!

What is this? What is this?! Introducing a new series being published weekly on my blog – “Gotta Badge ‘Em All!” This series aims to introduce readers to the hundreds of Fedora badges that members of the Fedora community can earn. Maybe you’re a newcomer looking at becoming more involved by earning more badges, or maybe you have been around for a while and just want to grow your badge numbers.

No matter who you are, this series aims to educate and teach readers about how to earn some of the less obvious Fedora badges available. Not all the badges are obvious, and I want to bring more light to the “how-to” process to picking up some of these badges.

Publishing Schedule

The schedule I intend to follow aims for a new article in the series every Monday at 3:30 UTC. If you’re from the US East Coast, like me, this translates to Sunday evenings at 22:30 (10:30pm).

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Wanting to keep up with the series? Just follow the tag “Gotta Badge ‘Em All” on my blog (if you’re an RSS person, use this)!

Stay tuned for the first article in the series coming very soon, explaining the Parselmouth badge!

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