Problem/Motivation

The ability for an event organizer to credit an event's attendees would:

  • Give attendees an immediate reason to create a Drupal.org account
  • Provide a (mostly symbolic) incentive for attendees to show up to an event

Both of these support community growth and engagement for those new to the community.

Original Slack thread

Proposed resolution

  • Add "Attendees" field to drupal.org Event (analogous to Code of conduct contact, Organizers, Speakers, and Volunteers)
  • Document the purpose of this field, why an organizer should consider doing the work to collect drupal.org usernames from attendees, and how to enter many usernames quickly.
  • Possibly result in an "Events attended" badge on user profiles

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Comments

jdleonard created an issue. See original summary.

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heatherwoz commented

Personally, I don't think simply attending an event is enough to earn credit. I feel like that leads to credit inflation. Organizing, speaking, and sponsoring are genuine contributions. It will create a lot of overhead for event organizers to track and enter general attendance. Curious to hear what others think about this.

There is another feature request for sign-ups #3408581: Add support for simple signups to community events. Possibly these two features could converge. Attendees can self-sign up for events, removing the effort from organizers. But then you can't guarantee the person did attend, so it might be an unreliable way to assign credit.

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jdleonard
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Related issues: +#3408581: Add support for simple signups to community events

Organizers are never required to issue credit. I think having the option is good.

I think there's value created for the community in attending an event and in causing attendees to engage with Drupal.org, but (to @heatherwoz's concern about credit inflation) I don't think doing so should result in significant issue credit being received. What if the weighting for such credits were 10% of normal or something like that?

Perhaps #3408581: Add support for simple signups to community events could somehow seed a list of people "maybe attended", which an organizer could then confirm for each attendee without the extra work of collecting usernames?

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heatherwoz commented
Project: Event Organizers Working Group » Drupal.org customizations
Version: » 1.0.x-dev
Component: D.o Events Page » Community events

Moving to Drupal.org customizations project and tagging with Community Events component.