# Mindshare Team Interview: Fedora Badges

## Team name:
Fedora Badges

## Summary
Fedora Badges is a fun website built to recognize contributors to the Fedora Project, help new and existing Fedora contributors find different ways to get involved, and encourage the improvement of Fedora’s infrastructure.

## Communication Channels
Preferred asynchronous communication channel:
* Subscribe: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/badges.lists.fedoraproject.org/
* Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/badges%40lists.fedoraproject.org/

Preferred synchronous communication channel:
* IRC: #[e-mail]
* Telegram: https://t.me/fedorabadges

## Issue tracker
* https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issues

## Documentation:
* https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/badges/

## Meetings times and locations
N/A

## Current responsibilities of the Fedora Badges Team
* The Fedora Badges Team develops and maintains the application stack supporting Fedora Badges stack. The team processes badge requests from the community, as well as develop concepts and create designs for those requests. We are responsible for pushing new badges designs to the Fedora Badges website.

## Current goals of the Fedora Badges Team
* The Fedora Badges Team current goals range from keeping the badges application running, to incorporating new badges to cover more contributing areas, to moving the entire app to a new system (badgr).

## Greatest strength of the Fedora Badges Team
* Fun project and proper process of pushing new badges makes the monotonous easy to handle.

## Greatest weakness of the Fedora Badges Team
* To update tech stacks, we need more contributors which can be difficult to get considering badges is a mature project with relatively steep learning curve initially.

## What are the long term plans for the team (if applicable)?

## Is there anything you can consider a "Mission Statement" for your Team?

## Is there a specific task or issue that your Team needs help for from the Mindshare Committee?

## Is there some function/activity you would like to see your Team doing that they aren’t doing currently?