Allow classification/tagging/other of ~users and Teams

[mattbk]

The natural result of closing #3127. That thread has several idea about how to proceed, but this thread is starting from a position of ignoring previous communities and starting with a blank slate.

How do we want to

• help discovery of projects by potential contributors
• help discovery of projects by potential givers
• help teams realize they aren't alone (within their area of interest) in using Gratipay

Freetagging is one natural option; are there others?

[mattbk]

Inspiration at http://github.com/explore:

[mattbk]

+1 from gratipay/project-review#141 (comment).

I admit it's a bit unwieldy at the moment, but rather than maintaining a separate list of "good" applications, I think the long-term answer is add better discoverability features to Gratipay so that you are empowered to determine for yourself which approved Teams are similar to yours.

[chadwhitacre]

Picking up from the levels idea ... how about badges?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
https://openbadges.org/
https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki/home/
http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges
https://badges.fedoraproject.org/
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/awards
  (I love impressing the likes of @oakes with my Ten Year Club trophy! :)

[chadwhitacre]

National identities are possibly related to this.

[chadwhitacre]

"You've been awarded the JavaScript badge!"

[chadwhitacre]

I will also be adding a Contributor Club badge added to your Opensource.com profile soon.