Karma server
| Projects | |
|---|---|
| Participants | Becha |
| Skills | Programming, community building, open source projects, presenting |
| Status | Planning |
| Niche | Software |
| Purpose | World domination |
- Karma server is intended for rating the mailing lists posts (and/or other "content"), with the goal to share the ratings with "friends", within one or more communities, and to enable search within posts.*
Possible implementation solution would need to:
- enable mail clients (and/or mailing list servers) do the ratings;
- interact with the karma server, to upload and download ratings;
- also to choose people whose ratings I want to follow;
This is a useful feature for several large communities that have many mailing lists (RIPE, NANOG, IETF); but also fo any smaller community (for example, hackerspace) that communicates via mailing lists. Using the karma server would lower the barrier for participation (since it is easier to rate "=1" or "-1" then to emial "mee too", or even more constructive post..).
What needs to be done:
- write SW for karma server
- write patches that modify email clients
- promote the usage of this in several communities (29c3! ripe meeting, nanog meeting / lists, ietf...)
- write an RFC about it...
- maintain the "github" / open source repository of the SW
Similar implementations:
- "slashdot" -- only on the web
- Facebook...
- ripe ncc has the rating of posts, on the closed web app, only for wg-chairs
- perlmonks.org (nice system that encourages voting)
People involved:
- Becha
- Arnd
- Emile Aben
