Did you ever become a part of a community, particularly a technical one, with the expectation of growing holistically as an individual but rather got stuck in an endless loop of redundant tasks? Did you ever think that you’d be building projects with your community but instead found yourself doing stuff which wasn’t adding anything substantial to your career?

Here’s a discussion that would show you the fundamental mistake in people’s mindset while joining communities and ways to rectify the same. The attendees shall be taking a deep plunge into the system of gamification (creating a game-like experience in the form of reward systems, badges, points or mini adrenaline-inducing tasks) and learning how it can be adopted in communities, particularly in tech communities, to bid goodbye to a stagnant frame of mind and spark creativity.

Need an example to understand this better? Imagine if the simple yet tiring task of joining a Google Meet link was gamified. How interesting would it be if the 10 alphabet code at the end of a Google meet link had to be decoded through a series of cyphers, riddles and clues? This is just one of the examples where teamwork, collaboration and creativity have been leveraged to gamify a community’s everyday ritual of meeting remotely.

The talk shall entail my perspective of communities as a volunteer, an executive member, a coordinator and then a leader and a GitHub Campus Expert and all the trials and tribulations that came my way while trying to ensure that every community member reaches their utmost potential. The talk will strike a chord with every developer, designer, entrepreneur or content creator out there who became part of communities with a certain perception of the same, had their perceptions and expectations challenged, however, made the most out of what was offered and carved a path not just for themselves but for their entire community.