# User of the week! **URL:** \ **Category:** Social Space\ **Tags:** recognition\ **Created:** [September 15, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806 "2023-09-15T13:43:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/21 "2023-10-30T09:17:41Z")
Another Monday, another Friday I forgot - I need some automation here šŸ™‚ Still, letā€™s catch up! For last week, our User of the Week is ā€¦ @gotmax23! > **[@gotmax23](http://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)** Packaging, documentation, Steering Committee ā€¦ do you ever stop, Maxwell šŸ™‚? Thanks for being here and for all you do for Ansible šŸ™ ā¤ ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/22 "2023-10-30T12:50:40Z")
Thanks, Greg! Iā€™m happy to be here. ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/23 "2023-11-03T14:13:06Z")
Howā€™s November treating you so far folks? Canā€™t believe weā€™ve had the forum almost 2 months already (and we have nearly 1200 users too!) Still, another week rolls by, and another badge to grant - this time, to @felixfontein! > **[@felixfontein](http://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)** > > :wave: Iā€™m not going to even **try** to list all the things Felix does for the community - Iā€™m certain to miss some. Suffice to say that whenever I look at community activity metrics, Felix is usually an order-of-magnitude ahead of everyone else. I donā€™t know where weā€™d be without you šŸ™‚ Also a shoutout to @ptn who has just become the first person to ā€œorganicallyā€ reach Trust Level 3 (rather than me promoting people who need it) - kudos! ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/24 "2023-11-04T13:28:57Z")
Thank you very much @gwmngilfen! And also congrats to @ptn for reaching TL3 šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/25 "2023-11-10T14:04:59Z")
This is going to be a fun one ā€¦ šŸ˜‰ This week, itā€™s @tanganellilore - and according to the forum profile, on your birthday! > **[@tanganellilore](http://forum.ansible.com/u/tanganellilore)** Thanks for all your help and participation, Lorenzo - have a šŸ° on us šŸ˜› (and a badge, ofc) ---
**Author:** ![tanganellilore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tanganellilore/32/178_2.png) [@tanganellilore](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tanganellilore)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/26 "2023-11-10T17:23:26Z")
Yuppy!!! Thanks for it and yes, I will eat some šŸŽ‚ šŸ„³šŸ‘Æā€ā™‚ļø :piƱata: ---
**Author:** ![jbericat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jbericat/32/627_2.png) [@jbericat](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jbericat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/27 "2023-11-10T19:27:07Z")
I saw that one coming somehow šŸ˜‰ Congrats @tanganellilore! ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/28 "2023-11-20T16:43:52Z")
Oh my, I missed this on Friday again, too busy! For Friday 17th, then, itā€™s ā€¦ @TheRealHaoLiu! > **[@TheRealHaoLiu](http://forum.ansible.com/u/therealhaoliu/)** Hao is one of the drivers behind the AWX part of the community - thanks for all you do! It wouldnā€™t be the same without you šŸ˜› Folks, itā€™s becoming clear that we canā€™t keep this pace up - shall we make it monthly instead? ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/29 "2023-11-20T16:52:49Z")
> [@gwmngilfen](#): > > Folks, itā€™s becoming clear that we canā€™t keep this pace up - shall we make it monthly instead? If only there were some sort of, I donā€™t know, an ā€¦ ā€œautomation engineā€ thingyā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/30 "2023-11-20T17:10:56Z")
Itā€™s not about automation, Iā€™ve done most of that (no, Iā€™m not going to use GPT to actually write the post, but the rest is done šŸ˜›). No, itā€™s about how we calculate the scores. When giving a badge like this, thereā€™s two ways to look at it: - Who has the most activity **this week** - Who has the most activity over all time **but doesnā€™t have the badge yet** I actually merge those two - I only look at this weekā€™s activity, but I also donā€™t duplicate awards. That means someone like @IPvSean (who of all the people who don;t have the badge yet, is _far and away_ in the lead) has won it, because heā€™s consistently active but people who put spikes of effort in keep getting to the top. However, itā€™s not perfect in reverse either - on a this-week-only score, @IPvSean was 9th. So is it right that a large mass of prior activity should beat someone who genuinely has been active this week? Thereā€™s no perfect answer, but I think monthly might be better because it balances ā€œnowā€ vs ā€œall-timeā€ in a better way. In a month, you still have to be _consistent_ (which Iā€™d like to value), it canā€™t be spiked - but you do have to be here _this month_. ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/31 "2023-11-20T18:57:28Z")
Sort of a ā€œThis weekā€™s ā€˜User for the Past Monthā€™ goes to ā€¦ā€ But seriously, youā€™ve set a tough task for yourself, to pick a winner on any particular time scale, especially since being a kind, thoughtful, helpful, inquisitive, consistently present community member is fundamentally not a competition. So good luck with that! ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/32 "2023-11-21T09:26:06Z")
Split this topic on November 21, 2023, 9:26am UTC 2 posts were split to a new topic: [How to expand the ā€œcommunity teamā€?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-expand-the-community-team/2480) ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/33 "2023-11-21T09:20:54Z")
> [@utoddl](#): > > But seriously, youā€™ve set a tough task for yourself, to pick a winner on any particular time scale, especially since being a kind, thoughtful, helpful, inquisitive, consistently present community member is fundamentally not a competition. So good luck with that! Well Discourse automates it - there is a set of weights for various activities (eg having some mark your post as a solution is worth _way_ more than a like) and then it gets added up, all I have to do is see whoā€™s at the top of the list - not too tedious šŸ™‚. But we do have to decide what timeframe to count over, as above. More generally, I want at least _some_ of these badges to **mean** something. I want badges that you would show off, maybe even use them to help get an Ansible-based job in the future. We need to support each other in skilling up, because then we all win. If you had a rare badge that implies ā€œI know what Iā€™m doing, and the community agreesā€, that would have value, right? ---
**Author:** ![TheRealHaoLiu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/therealhaoliu/32/100_2.png) [@TheRealHaoLiu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/TheRealHaoLiu)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/34 "2023-11-21T20:12:06Z")
Thatā€™s very kind of you @gwmngilfen but I would like to yield to @kurokobo. Heā€™s a long time outstanding community member thatā€™s been helping people all over the forum and in the project. Heā€™s my inspiration and reason why I started to pay attention to this ā€œopen sourceā€ thing. ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/35 "2023-11-22T09:29:09Z")
Hey Iā€™m just going by what my metrics tell me - thereā€™s ~1300 users here at this point, I canā€™t keep tabs on all of you šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![kurokobo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kurokobo/32/182_2.png) [@kurokobo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kurokobo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/36 "2023-11-22T13:10:50Z")
Haha thank you @TheRealHaoLiu, your words are worth for me more than winning ā€œUser of the weekā€ šŸ˜ƒ Since I believe that ā€œUser of the weekā€ is a gamification focused solely on the activities of this forum, I think it would be sufficient if the winners were determined according to the [existing leaderboard](http://forum.ansible.com/leaderboard/1) Any contributions to the community including outside the forum could be recognized in other ways, such as Angry Potato Award (sending angry potato goodies as you did for me) šŸ˜† @gwmngilfen Iā€™m sure not everyone knows about this leaderboard. [http://forum.ansible.com/leaderboard/1](http://forum.ansible.com/leaderboard/1) [http://forum.ansible.com/leaderboard/2](http://forum.ansible.com/leaderboard/2) I think it would probably be more convincing if it was clearly stated that the award winners were determined based on this. ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806/37 "2023-11-22T16:28:45Z")
> [@kurokobo](#): > > your words are worth for me more than winning ā€œUser of the weekā€ I would agree! > [@kurokobo](#): > > Iā€™m sure not everyone knows about this leaderboard. Actually I use [leaderboard 4](http://forum.ansible.com/leaderboard/2) - but I donā€™t link to it precisely because I donā€™t want to encourage gamifying it even further. Perhaps I should revisit that policyā€¦ šŸ¤” Itā€™s also hard to track long-term, because (as I was saying earlier) I currently go edit the relevant dates for that board each week (so right now itā€™s tracking _this week_, but next week it wonā€™t be). > [@kurokobo](#): > > I believe that ā€œUser of the weekā€ is a gamification focused solely on the activities of this forum It is solely based solely on the forum, yes. I would _love_ to fold in GitHub, Matrix, Meetup organisers, and more sources of contribution into a single source - but thatā€™s hard, especially when we donā€™t all use consistent usernames across these spaces. I do produce [other metrics](https://connect.eng.ansible.com/community) on GitHub and Matrix, and weā€™re also planning to expand the forum badges for other things, somewhat like [https://badges.fedoraproject.org/](https://badges.fedoraproject.org/) - weā€™ve already done some speaker and attendee badges for the Community Day in Berlin, and I want to do something with our Meetup organisers too. Thereā€™s a lot we can do to simply give a nod to those doing work that isnā€™t always easy to see - but Iā€™ll agree that swag is also good when it can be arranged! The initial goals with User of the Week were: - encourage use of the forum while weā€™re in ā€œboot-up modeā€ - getting usage early on with new forums is hard, and like it or hate it gamification does work on many people šŸ˜› - give an example of giving badges out as a form of recognition, so we can see how to do this for other types of contribution - understand how we might automate more of that So far, thatā€™s largely done - which is another reason why Iā€™m thinking we could go to monthly. Less spammy, and weā€™re much more stable in terms of usage now. [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/t/user-of-the-week/806.md?page=1)