Acknowledging PostgreSQL Contributors: The Contributor Badges Project
October 20–23
The PostgreSQL community is maintaining a list of recognized Major and Significant Contributors, curated by the Contributors Committee. Getting onto this list requires a lot of dedication; the people on this list have worked on PostgreSQL for years.
To recognize a broader range of contributors, we are introducing contributor badges. A "badge" is awarded for any kind of contribution to the PostgreSQL community. Examples are "PostgreSQL 19 Contributor", "PGConf.EU 2026 Speaker", "Patroni Contributor" and everything that benefits PostgreSQL and the open source ecosystem around it. Each contributor gets a page under postgresql.org/community/people/ where badges appear as clickable images for more details.
This talk offers a look behind the scenes of the Contributors Committee and how the badges are implemented in postgresql.org's Django framework. We hope the badges help making contributions to PostgreSQL more visible. And as a side-effect, badges will help us with adding new people to the recognized contributors list.
