R.I.S.E - The importance of Recognition, Incentive, Support & Empowerment
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R.I.S.E is a concrete framework — Recognition, Incentive, Support, Empowerment — applied to Fedora through badges, mentorship and process changes. Fedora runs a gamified badges system with 200+ badges, cookie-based peer karma that resets every release, and an identity-driven 400-cookie stroopwafel motif. Community incentives include swag: a curated box of 20+ items sent as 650 swag packages. Operational fixes include flywheel volunteers, documented codes of conduct, and a program management team to share project work.
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