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There should be a vendor / company neutral symbol.
by zitterbewegung 18y ago
There should be a vendor / company neutral symbol.
- thwarted 18y agoAgreed. And using an image associated with github, does "contribute" mean that your changes need to be merged by someone else into their _git_ repo? I'd like to see one for people who contributed to upstream, it was merged in, production release with their change, and then their code was eventually removed, years later. :) Good idea though, I'd like to see more of these around town.
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- nerdmeritbadges 18y agoYou're right, there probably should, but we just liked the octocat. It's friendly, it's dripping, it's an abomination against nature. Just so we don't seem like we're spamming the board, I'll add: * We're VERY interested in "buffs" and levels. Girl scout badges sometimes have little gold doohickeys that attach to a main badge with a chain. We think that would be cool. Also, we think that meaningful border-colors would be awesome. So far, we're thinking of black-bordered DEmerit badges: "Destroyed non-backed-up data." God, I've earned that one. Your suggestions are absolutely welcomed. Twitter us at @nerdmeritbadges. Right now, we're working on the Regular Expressions merit badge. Oh, and the best place for a sash? Your laptop lid, naturally! :)
- pmjordan 18y agoWhat about a kernel hacker badge? For getting a patch accepted into an open source operating system kernel. One step up from the OSS badge.
- zitterbewegung 18y agoMight as well just advertise for github. I don't need a badge to tell me I can hack. Use the glider symbol from the game of life. Octocat is stupid its cute but stupid it is meaningless.
- there 18y agoagreed. it seems like the annoying "all the world is an i386 running linux" generalization has been updated to "all the open source world is on github".