MLC@home Badges!

[Newshound]

MLC@Home is happy to announce that badges are now available!
We're scientists, not artists; but why not have some fun:

There are three types of badges volunteers can earn:

1) RAC Badges: badges for having a (user/team) with a high RAC for the project. These are gold/silver/bronze badges for top 1%, 5%, and 25% RAC.

2) Milestone Badges: Starting today (October 1st 2020), we've enabled sub-project credit reporting. While we only have one sub-project at the moment (MLDS), we plan to have more in the future. With this, we're instituting "Milestone badges" you can earn for contributing a certain number of credits per sub-project. These badges are available at milestones, the first being 10K credits. While all users retain their overall credit (I repeat no credit is lost), these badges will only be awarded for work done after today, when the server started keeping track of per-app credit. Thresholds for milestone badges are (currently) 10K (onyx), 500K (amethyst), 1M (sapphire), 500M (ruby), and 1B (emerald) credits.

3) Special Badges: These are special, one-off badges for special events. The first one is a reward for those who have supported our little project so far. We're going to grant an "Early Adopter" badge for anyone who has any type of credit on this project during its first 100 days. This project went live the night of June 30th, 2020, so that leaves just 1 week (October 8th!) to earn some credit and qualify for the badge.

We hope that these badges help keep things fun, and motivate all of you to keep supporting our work. We're so close to not only writing our first papers based on these results, but also releasing these datasets so others (maybe even you) can build our collective effort. There is no way we could do this without you.

Thank you!
-- The MLC@Home Admins

Source: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/for ... .php?id=88