Kudos Release Notes | October 2nd, 2024
Happy timezones, Atlassian Community! Welcome to my personal favorite month of the year - with weather cooling off in North America and Halloween right around the corner, there’s plenty to enjoy offline, but even more exciting, there are SO MANY cool Kudos opportunities happening NOW! 🤩 We’ll kick off today’s updates with some releases, run through ALL of the exclusive badging opportunities for this month, and get a couple of sneak peeks at everything cool happening between now and the end of the year 👀
New: Recognize your peers with one click! 🤝
Practicing gratitude is now easier than ever! While you’re browsing the Community, you can hover over the username of any other member to find a brand-new button that quickly fires off a recognition Kudos to that user for their content!
This MAJOR upgrade is already available for you to use, so I’d love to start a recognition Kudos train on this thread! 🚞 Leave a comment on this article for some Recognition Kudos from yours truly, and share the love with your peers down below too!
If you’ve run out of your weekly bank of 10 recognition Kudos you can send to others, this button will not appear again until your weekly allotment resets the following Friday. I’ll keep an eye out on this thread and grant some extra banked Kudos to support our hype-train of sorts throughout this week, too! 😉
October-only: Apptoberfest '24! 🍻
It’s our favorite time of year where the steins are full and there’s celebrations to be had over in App Central - Apptoberfest! This year the festivities are grander than ever, with 5 Kudos badges up for grabs:
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Apptoberfest '24 |
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Comment on 3+ relevant Community articles or discussions, available all month long 💬 Also automatically awarded to all Marketplace Partners who submit a demo! |
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Das Volk Voter |
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Cast your vote in all 3 competition categories during our open voting period - from October 18th-25th 🗳️ |
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Stand out Stein |
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Win any demo competition category for you and your team* to rock this exclusive Kudos badge in your trophy cases 🥳 *Winners be on the lookout for an email from our team to ensure we award these badges to you (and your team, where applicable)! |
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Bountiful Bavarian |
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A bonus thank-you to the most engaged members during Apptoberfest '24 - comment 6+ times on our weekly app topics, and may this Bounty be yours 🥨 |
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München Mastery |
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One Partner Demo will come out on top by the end of the month, and the München Mastery Kudos badge proves those bragging rights to the Partner/team behind the winning submission 🤩 |
See you in App Central throughout the month to celebrate everything App-y, which leads me to our next release…
New: repeatable Appy Answerer Kudos badge 🗣️
Just in time for Apptoberfest, and will live on beyond this month - a shiny new badge for answering questions in App Central!
Appy Answerer is now available to users at or above Level 5 (Vine) in the Kudos program, and can be earned up to 3x per day, along with 50 bonus points for each redemption. Go on, share your expertise with everything Apps, and reap the rewards! ✨
Tangible Kudos at Team '24 Europe 💙
Are you attending Team ‘24 Europe in Barcelona October 8th-10th? I will be feeling the FOMO from my home office in Austin TX, but I am able to live vicariously through IRL attendees as we have more Kudos opportunities at this event than any Team (or Summit, iykyk) event before. 🚀
We’re excited to repeat both of our Kudos offering from Team '24 Las Vegas in special Europe editions, and have an extra Team '24 Europe exclusive - see below for all the details on how to earn:
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Team '24 Europe Quest |
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Unleash the potential of your expo experience by completing our Quest! Venture through on-site activities, collect 5 Ace coins, and cash your coins in for this exclusive Kudos badge! |
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I Learned with Atlassian at Team '24 Europe! |
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Attend a Live Learning session at Team '24 Europe! These sessions are already sold out, so good news for those of you who were able to snag a spot, in the form of a bonus badge + points! 🎉 |
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Jira Dream Team ‘24 Europe |
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The awesome @Carol Jang has outlined the steps to complete this challenge here! |
These challenges are completed entirely on-site for in-person attendees in Barcelona - there’s no follow-up on our Online Community needed*, and if this was the push you needed to register in-person, you can do so here!
*If you’ve registered for Team ‘24 Europe under a different email than the Community account you’d like your badge(s) to display on, please reach out to our team at communitymanagers@atlassian.com, and we will confirm your badging after cross-referencing our on-site completion records. You can even reach out to us for all 3 badges in a single email if you need to!
Coming Soon: Improved Quarterly Leaderboards 📊
Since we welcomed all of our community members into the Kudos program earlier this year, we’ve heard new members loud and clear - it can be scary to compete in your quarterly leaderboard against folks who have been earning Kudos from day one! 😰 Have no fear - the Communi-team is on it, and we’ve been developing improvements to make our quarterly competitions more personalized. less daunting for new Atlassian Community members. 🫶🏻
Be on the lookout for a full breakdown soon - we’ll have MUCH more to share as these improvements make their way to your feeds!
Until next time…
There might even be some bonus goodies beyond these notes hitting your feeds and across the site over the course of the month, but I ran out of room to celebrate them here. If you spot something new, I’d love to know what you think - drop a comment and let me know! 🧐
As always, this Community Contests & Kudos group is our hub for everything exciting in the Community Kudos Program, and I’ll see you around virtually in our challenges. Enjoy all of the festivities happening around our amazing community this October! 💙
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