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[Brandon Holtsclaw <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*Well I don't know about how much the current API for the forums would
suffice but they are written in PHP and do have a plugin system , Since
myself and Jono ( Yall did know he wrote a book on PHP, right ? *
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-PHP-MySQL-Building-Applications/dp/0132239973
 *heheh , sorry for letting your secret out , you know I love you man ! :P
) are some of the few within the community that  dont cringe at the thought
of writing some PHP instead of python, I'm more than willing to write any
glue or modules for the forums to expose an API for accomplishments if one
is needed, could even be reused for other non-ubuntu Accomplishment Groups
that need a PHP API later. *
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*Of course it would need to be code reviewed and vetted by Canonical IS i'm
sure since it would be on their Data Center etc. etc. but since writing
solid, secure and fast ( anyone been to http://omgubuntu.co.uk lately ? heh
)  PHP code has been my $day-job for a number of years now I don't think
that part will be much of a hurdle.
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*So yea, lets hash out what exactly would need to be exposed, whats exposed
now etc etc etc and then I'll work with Newz2000 and the Canonical IS
Ladies and Gents and see if we cant work some magic.*
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*Brandon Holtsclaw*
*Voice: 1.816.974.6106*
*Website: www.brandonholtsclaw.com<http://www.brandonholtsclaw.com/?from=email-signature>
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12 April 2012 12:52, Bruno Girin <brunogirin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Joseph,
> >
> > I think this would be a great idea! The only thing I would be careful of
> is
> > that if the accomplishment is based on the number of posts, some people
> may
> > be tempted to file in dummy posts just to get their numbers up so it may
> be
> > useful to find a more reliable metric.
> >
> > Otherwise, just easy to gain accomplishments may be useful to, such as:
> > - first post on the forums (same with Ask Ubuntu)
> > - first answer to post on the forums (same with Ask Ubuntu)
> > - reputation and badges on Ask Ubuntu
> > - best answers on Ask Ubuntu
> >
> > The details on how to create new accomplishments is here:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments/Creating
>
> Welcome, Joseph, to the Ubuntu Accomplishments community! Sorry for
> the delayed response from me, I was at an event late last week.
>
> As Bruno pointed out, we want to avoid accomplishments that are earned
> by X number of posts/comments etc. These kinds of things can be easily
> abused. Instead we focus on accomplishments for new experiences such
> as the examples Bruno gave above.
>
> I would *love* to see Ubuntu Forums accomplishments in the Ubuntu
> Community accomplishment set. :-)
>
> > One additional point: most of the accomplishments today use data that is
> > available in Launchpad because Launchpad offers an API to connect to it.
> I
> > have no idea what the API would be for the forums or for Ask Ubuntu so
> > finding how you can connect to those two would be the first step. Once
> you
> > know how to do that, we can help you work out how to create new
> > accomplishments.
>
> Bruno again makes a good point. To have accomplishments for the forums
> you will need to be able to provide a script that can ask the forums
> if something has been achieved. I am not sure if the forums provide a
> web API.
>
> As for Ask Ubuntu, I think it would be awesome if someone could write
> some scripts to get AskUbuntu badges into the Ubuntu Accomplishments
> system. :-)
>
>   Jono
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