What is on Your Mind?

OK. I agree and will look into this.

OK. I will follow your idea on this one. Please fill in the full details with all the levels you propose, the criteria for each level, the names of each level, and provide a proposed badge that you like for each level / category. If you can find badges you like at Font Awesome, that would be good, if not, please find them somewhere.... Thanks Ravinder.

OK. Please design the certification and provide an MS document, or Powerpoint, image, or whatever is your idea / design for this certificate. I agree with you this is a very good idea. Congrats on this good idea.


Same comment. Great idea; so please color with idea with details. Thanks.

No idea. We are not a huge corporation like stack* with relationships to business partners. I am open to anyone who wants to take the lead on this.

I've been hoping that "What's On Your Mind" would become broader to include technical discussions. What do you want to call it? LOL "What's On Your Mind, Technically? " Haha

That's good idea. I should have done this years ago. My bad.

Hmmm. If you want to learn PHP or HTML or Javascript, you don't need a UNIX.COM development environment. You can write JS or PHP or HTML easily anywhere.

I agree our search engine rankings has suffered, but I don't have the solution.

I'm not a PHP expert; but I do know my way around PHP, like a PHP hacker kind of guy.

But more than that, I love you guys.

Cheers.

We LOVE you too Neo(Tim)

Now coming to one more thought, we should have an award for good thoughts and good ideas too THANK YOU for recognizing all the thoughts, I hope we could implement them too.

Also while checking online I found a site named Printable technology certificates and IT certificate templates from where I created a sample template as attached, please check it once and let me know then?

Certification for Neo for GREAT WORK for UNIX.com site's enhancement:

Seems OK.

But you should print it without the header and footer so we can see what it really will look like. I think the instructions to do this are on the link you sent:

Free technology and ITC award maker

Was on the phone last night with a friend and his idea about this topic was:

(1) Create a nice, unique badging system.

(2) Create video tutorials and feature them.

After thinking about this, I agree with (2) for sure.

For me and most all other people I know, we get our new tech information from YouTube tutorials. Personally, anytime I want to learn some new tech, I immediately go to YouTube and find great tutorials on all the latest and greatest tech. Lately, I watch a lot of videos from Brad Traversy of Traversy Media:

Traversy Media
- YouTube

So, I think I will order a Blue YETI Microphone soon and start making video tutorials (maybe about new forum features, or some upgrade coding problems I encountered etc) after I get caught up on other tasks.

If anyone wants to help speed this up, please buy me a Red and Black Satin Blue YETI USB mic combo and sent it to me in Thailand:

Blue Microphone Yeti USB Microphone /w Headphones and Pop Filter (Choose Color!) | eBay

Regarding "a new badging system".... I asked my friend to join us in the discussion on this here and help us out. He is a busy guy with a full time job and he is working on his PhD in cybersecurity and big data; but I hope he will help outline his vision for a new badging system so I can code it when we get the details down

CodeProject by far



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Objective

Not sales oriented

Color blind AKA not prejudiced in any way - technically or grammatically
Best tutorials around +++


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Needs some "SoC" "IoT" hardware forum

Thanks, Will check it out.

OK. Let's start out by getting all interested parties to join a new Whatsapp group I just created do discuss UNIX.COM web site upgrades and development:

WhatsApp Group Invite for UNIX.COM Web Site Upgrades and Site Development

Cheers

Hey RavidSingh13,

Your ideas sound pretty good! Maybe give some more details of what you'd like to see? Or anyone else? It sounds like Neo is willing to put these features in.

So yeah, this sounds pretty good.

Also, other sites have rank/badging systems like you guys are mentioning.
It's your community, so maybe have a little fun with it... and build your own theme...
Like maybe make some Karate belts for certain "Technology Taxonomies".
For example... maybe I'm a Green Belt in "PHP" (taxonomy), maybe RavinderSingh13 is a Brown Belt in "PHP" (taxonomy), Neo is a 3rd Degree Black Belt in "PHP" (taxonomy), and Rasmus Lerdorf is a 10th Degree Black Belt in "PHP" (taxonomy).

Similarly, maybe hicksd8 is a Black Belt in "Android" (taxonomy) and Bakunin is a Black Belt in "Dev Ops" (taxonomy).

Your main ranking system should have some sort of legitimacy to it, so a total Newbie can't be a black belt in it. Maybe different levels of users, get daily "karma points" to spend on quality questions, answers, posts, etc. These "karma points" and other metrics like number of "accepted answers" could help in "leveling up" to a higher karate belt.

Or you could do any leveling system... like typical gold/silver/bronze medal stuff (maybe even map these to certain karate belt levels).
Or even a military ranking system like Sergeant, Major, Colonel, etc
Whatever you guys prefer...

Then maybe, you could also give "badge awards" for cool "one-offs"... Like promotional "badge awards" for things like... "Award Level Founder", "Taxonomy Engineer", "Haloween Jack O Latern" for "answer hero during the week of Haloween".
Just have fun with these!

All these ideas by RavidSingh13 sound like good candidates for "Award Badges":
Yeah, the taxonomies seem like a great idea... Maybe a few experts from each of the categories could volunteer to help generate ideas for what their area's "taxonomy structure" should look like?


And yeah, it seems Videos are all the rage these days for learning new Tech. God man, I don't wanna read... I just wanna sit back and sponge up some other smart person's knowledge! Maybe try a few Video Tutorials? Maybe even create a "Bounty System" to donate one's "karma points" for that killer video or even text-based walk-through you wish you could see! And other members could "Like" that same "bounty item", and they could up-vote or down-vote that bounty item or even donate their points to it too... Sounds like a new good Award Badge could be "Bounty Mercenary Ace" haha.

Another thing to consider with Video tutorials is...
Maybe unix.com members don't even need to generate all the content...
Maybe just hyperlink to existing free videos in the public domain, and the unix.com community could moderate/vote on how helpful particular videos are?

Sounds like you guys got some good ideas brewing here!
If you guys really like the community here, then it sounds like the community should help to evolve unix.com

Any thoughts? Lots of different possibilities!

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I joined this WhatsApp group. Does anyone else want to join? Or use a different chat platform?

Ravidsingh13, want to join a chat?