[okfn-labs] Open Knowledge Labs Badges

[Daniel Fowler]

Hi all,

There have been various conversations recently around issuing badges as recognition for Labs members’ roles and achievements.  Now before you say, "badges? we don't need no stinkin' badges!" [1], you should know that a few of us have already rigged up a simple system that displays badges on members' pages based on Jekyll member attributes (example: http://okfnlabs.org/members/rgrp/ ).  Badges (essentially, Font Awesome 3.2.1 icons superimposed on a badge-shaped png) we’re currently issuing are listed here: http://okfnlabs.org/join/#get-recognized .  We're looking for ideas for other types of roles and achievements we should recognize with a pretty badge.  Check out these GitHub issues for more info:

https://github.com/okfn/okfn.github.com/issues/278

https://github.com/okfn/okfn.github.com/issues/284

Ideally, it would be nice to use this work to inform a more general solution based on Mozilla's Open Badges, and there has already been some work in that direction:

https://github.com/okfn/goad

http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Open_Badges

https://trello.com/c/LvcBmpiN/6-badges-okfn-org-giving-recognition-for-what-people-learn-and-do-around-the-network

Looking forward to your feedback/suggestions on this topic.

Cheers,

Dan

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges

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