I've enjoyed reading through these posts and am learning a lot. I hope you don't mind a total novice question. I attended a presentation in May on this initiative, and my interest stemmed from wanting to issue badges for my own global ed non-profit. As I share this program both with potential funders and partners both in the USA and abroad, and I mention how we would like to eventually incorporate badges into our system, I get extremely enthusiastic responses.
For those of us that are not involved in designing the infrastructure for such a system, when will this be something that the average (fairly tech savvy) individual can use, pull off a website, and use for their organization? Am I looking in the right place?
In terms of ways to simplify standing up a badge system and start issuing
badges with minimal infrastructural investment, there are a couple options:
At Mozilla, we are developing Open
Badger<https://github.com/mozilla/openbadger/wiki>,
a light-weight badge issuing tool that will enable folks to create and
issue badges with facility without having to host this on their own and
having to independently integrate with the Open Badge Infrastructure
through the Issuer API. Open Badger will take care of that for you. However
this is still in active development at the moment and slated for beta
release in November.
In the mean time, a couple other open and free options that integrate with
the Open Badge Infrastructure you can explore are the following:
All are intended to help issuers get going on issuing badges with little
set up on their part.
Creators/developers of Open Badger, Badg.us and Forallbadges are all part
of this mailing list so you can reach out and ask any questions if you come
across any.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Lisa Martin <3dragons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've enjoyed reading through these posts and am learning a lot. I hope you
> don't mind a total novice question. I attended a presentation in May on
> this initiative, and my interest stemmed from wanting to issue badges for
> my own global ed non-profit. As I share this program both with potential
> funders and partners both in the USA and abroad, and I mention how we would
> like to eventually incorporate badges into our system, I get extremely
> enthusiastic responses.
> For those of us that are not involved in designing the infrastructure for
> such a system, when will this be something that the average (fairly tech
> savvy) individual can use, pull off a website, and use for their
> organization? Am I looking in the right place?
Thank you very much for that reply as I'm looking into the possibility of setting up badges for an Ed Tech Conference that will be taking place in Feb of 2013
I'll definitely be taking a long look at those links.
Open Badger sounds good, especially if it takes away the need to manipulate code. If it does then it could open up the use of badges across not just education, but many more areas too.
On Friday, 6 July 2012 18:58:52 UTC+1, Sunny wrote:
> Hi Lisa,
> Welcome! We're happy to have you participate and be a part of the > conversation.
> The Open Badge Infrastructure has been in public beta for a couple months > now. You can find all our code here: > https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/
> In terms of ways to simplify standing up a badge system and start issuing > badges with minimal infrastructural investment, there are a couple options:
> At Mozilla, we are developing Open Badger<https://github.com/mozilla/openbadger/wiki>, > a light-weight badge issuing tool that will enable folks to create and > issue badges with facility without having to host this on their own and > having to independently integrate with the Open Badge Infrastructure > through the Issuer API. Open Badger will take care of that for you. However > this is still in active development at the moment and slated for beta > release in November.
> In the mean time, a couple other open and free options that integrate with > the Open Badge Infrastructure you can explore are the following:
> All are intended to help issuers get going on issuing badges with little > set up on their part.
> Creators/developers of Open Badger, Badg.us and Forallbadges are all part > of this mailing list so you can reach out and ask any questions if you come > across any.
> Sunny
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Lisa Martin <3dragons...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I've enjoyed reading through these posts and am learning a lot. I hope >> you don't mind a total novice question. I attended a presentation in May on >> this initiative, and my interest stemmed from wanting to issue badges for >> my own global ed non-profit. As I share this program both with potential >> funders and partners both in the USA and abroad, and I mention how we would >> like to eventually incorporate badges into our system, I get extremely >> enthusiastic responses.
>> For those of us that are not involved in designing the infrastructure for >> such a system, when will this be something that the average (fairly tech >> savvy) individual can use, pull off a website, and use for their >> organization? Am I looking in the right place?
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Fred Boss <bossf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sunny (and Lisa),
> Thank you very much for that reply as I'm looking into the possibility of
> setting up badges for an Ed Tech Conference that will be taking place in
> Feb of 2013
> That's great. A lot of folks are starting to issue badges for conferences
and events to indicate level of participation (attendee vs. speaker,
panelist etc) and affiliation as well as interests. We think this is a
great use case for badges.
> I'll definitely be taking a long look at those links.
> Please feel free to reach out with questions. As mentioned, the
creators/developers of badg.us, forallbadges, and Open Badger are all part
of this mailing list so you can have direct access to those that are
building the tools here.
> Open Badger sounds good, especially if it takes away the need to
> manipulate code. If it does then it could open up the use of badges across
> not just education, but many more areas too.
Abstracting the code to make interested organizations stand up a badge
system with relative facility is indeed the goal. We hope this makes badges
more accessible to more groups and people.
I'm enjoying following these developments through this P2PU Course:
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Fred Boss <bossf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sunny (and Lisa),
> Thank you very much for that reply as I'm looking into the possibility of
> setting up badges for an Ed Tech Conference that will be taking place in
> Feb of 2013
> I'll definitely be taking a long look at those links.
> Open Badger sounds good, especially if it takes away the need to
> manipulate code. If it does then it could open up the use of badges across
> not just education, but many more areas too.
>> In terms of ways to simplify standing up a badge system and start issuing
>> badges with minimal infrastructural investment, there are a couple options:
>> At Mozilla, we are developing Open Badger<https://github.com/mozilla/openbadger/wiki>,
>> a light-weight badge issuing tool that will enable folks to create and
>> issue badges with facility without having to host this on their own and
>> having to independently integrate with the Open Badge Infrastructure
>> through the Issuer API. Open Badger will take care of that for you. However
>> this is still in active development at the moment and slated for beta
>> release in November.
>> In the mean time, a couple other open and free options that integrate
>> with the Open Badge Infrastructure you can explore are the following:
>> All are intended to help issuers get going on issuing badges with little
>> set up on their part.
>> Creators/developers of Open Badger, Badg.us and Forallbadges are all part
>> of this mailing list so you can reach out and ask any questions if you come
>> across any.
>> Sunny
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Lisa Martin <3dragons...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> I've enjoyed reading through these posts and am learning a lot. I hope
>>> you don't mind a total novice question. I attended a presentation in May on
>>> this initiative, and my interest stemmed from wanting to issue badges for
>>> my own global ed non-profit. As I share this program both with potential
>>> funders and partners both in the USA and abroad, and I mention how we would
>>> like to eventually incorporate badges into our system, I get extremely
>>> enthusiastic responses.
>>> For those of us that are not involved in designing the infrastructure
>>> for such a system, when will this be something that the average (fairly
>>> tech savvy) individual can use, pull off a website, and use for their
>>> organization? Am I looking in the right place?
Quick question: for which Ed Tech conference will you be preparing these badges? Aaaand, would it make sense for there to be an Mozilla Open Badge presence at it? We're aiming to have the community be self-sufficient, so we can also provide you with materials so you can present them yourself, too. Let us know and thanks!
