badgus bug

[Luke Crouch]

In today's webdev call [1] we discussed awarding open badges for Mozilla
Webdev contributors. Les mentioned his in-progress work on a Mozilla
badges site based on playdoh. [2] The security review bug blocking it is
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797857

I shared this with David Boswell so he and Emily from foundation might
help push for it. If anyone else thinks it's a good idea, please vote or
comment on the bug.

If anyone missed it from IRC, here's the dev and stage server links:

https://badgus-dev.allizom.org/en-US/
https://badgus.allizom.org/en-US/

3 cheers for Les!

-L

[1] https://etherpad.mozilla.org/0imbKNNpqU
[2] https://github.com/lmorchard/badg.us

[David Boswell]

Very cool to see this happening :)

I just commented about this badging server being a priority for community building work, so hopefully that will help move things forward.

Since we've got a well defined set of contribution steps for webdev projects and an idea of the badges we'd like to offer, it would be great to get a pilot going that could serve as a model that other teams could use to recognize contributions.

David

[Chris McAvoy]

Hi All,

We're announcing a series of Moz Webmaker badges this Saturday at Mozfest.
You can see a preview of the Thimble editor with badges enabled at
https://webpagemaker-dev.allizom.org/en-US/

It might make sense to figure out umbrella Mozilla Badges branding now that
we're getting close to launching a few systems.

Chris (McAvoy, I'm on the Open Badges team, and have talked at length with
Les about this stuff...)

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[l.m.orchard]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Boswell" <dbos...@mozilla.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 4:22:40 PM
>
> Very cool to see this happening :)
>
> I just commented about this badging server being a priority for
> community building work, so hopefully that will help move things
> forward.
>
> Since we've got a well defined set of contribution steps for webdev
> projects and an idea of the badges we'd like to offer, it would be
> great to get a pilot going that could serve as a model that other
> teams could use to recognize contributions.

Some comments for anyone interested in django-badger:

1) The source and issues are on github, pull requests are always welcome.

https://github.com/lmorchard/django-badger (a reusable django app, home for issues)
https://github.com/lmorchard/badg.us (a playdoh reference site using django-badger)

2) Some ideas I've tossed out there over the past couple of years for badges at mozilla:

* Set up badges.mozilla.org (or badg.us) as a general service, to enable any mozillian to create and award badges. Bug 797857 represents the current status of my latest effort to try to make this happen.

* Incorporate django-badger into mozillians.org to do the above. Might also be interesting to have mozillians.org act as or incorporate a badge backpack.

* Incorporate django-badger into MDN. Award badges from there not only for MDN wiki and demo activity, but for any developer-related activity across the mozilla project.

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[Schalk Neethling]

Do we want to move this to the Mozilla theme (sandstone). If so, I would
love to work on this.

Kind Regards,
Schalk Neethling
Front-End Engineer
Mozilla

[Les Orchard]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schalk Neethling" <sneet...@mozilla.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 5:01:32 PM
>
> Do we want to move this to the Mozilla theme (sandstone). If so, I
> would love to work on this.

Sure, fork away! I used twitter bootstrap and some cruddy CSS design of my own on badg.us, because I am a horrible no-good designer.

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{web,mad,computer} scientist

[David Boswell]

Chris,

It would be great to work together to sync up a webdev badge pilot with other badge projects you're working on.

I talked to Emily about this a few days ago and she was interested in the idea of a webdev badge pilot, so we should probably all talk after you get back from the Festival.

David



----- Original Message -----
> Hi All,
>
> We're announcing a series of Moz Webmaker badges this Saturday at
> Mozfest. You can see a preview of the Thimble editor with badges
> enabled at https://webpagemaker-dev.allizom.org/en-US/
>
> It might make sense to figure out umbrella Mozilla Badges branding
> now that we're getting close to launching a few systems.
>
> Chris (McAvoy, I'm on the Open Badges team, and have talked at length
> with Les about this stuff...)
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:22 PM, David Boswell < dbos...@mozilla.com
> > wrote:
>
>

> Very cool to see this happening :)
>
> I just commented about this badging server being a priority for
> community building work, so hopefully that will help move things
> forward.
>
> Since we've got a well defined set of contribution steps for webdev
> projects and an idea of the badges we'd like to offer, it would be
> great to get a pilot going that could serve as a model that other
> teams could use to recognize contributions.
>

> 773-306-8955
>
>
>

[Chris McAvoy]

Sounds good David...Emily is awesome. As long as you're in contact with
her, she knows what's up.

[David Ascher]

just an FYI that there are some landmines around decentralizing badge
definition loosely, within the context of mozilla hosted services and the
mozilla brand in general (tl;dr: badges are user data, and PII by
definition, hence caution or processes are needed; also, mozilla branding
is valuable hence precious).

I'm happy to unpack this after mozfest.

--da

[David Boswell]

David,

Thanks for flagging those concerns. Happy to talk to you more about it after MozFest. Feel free to follow up once you're back and caught up on things.

David



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