Might BadgeList be useful to DWYL members and the DWYL team?

[innov8tor3]

To offer folk on DWYL some external recognition for work they have done, it can be possible to use sites such as BadgeList.com, and harnessing third party affirmation, to show where folk have skills that external parties could well find useful.

I accept that DWYL may not want to do this, it might prove somewhat complex, but it may help teams formed on GitHub activities to benefit with external visibility for their contributions.

For a product road map, introduction to the team and the skills being used can be reassurance for external parties that numbers are signing up to a project, and that a viable range of skills is being accessed.

Here is an impassioned debate on Facebook about the pros and cons of badging ...

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155488510163980&id=717213979

And here is a link to a Tweet to the BadgeList founder:

https://twitter.com/innov8tor3/status/878557143330414593

And thanks @nelsonic for the labels, I wasn't sure where or if this would fit anywhere ...