A Webmaker User Story in the Wild
As Mark explains, it’s Webmaker Planning Season, which includes writing user stories for where we want to take Thimble, Popcorn Maker and what we build to tie it all together. A really fantastic real...
View ArticleBadgecamp ’13!
The Open Badges team is going to spend a few days in retreat mode, stepping away from day-to-day work to think through what we’ve been up to for the past year, where we want to go and the best way to...
View ArticleLet’s Make More Backpacks
School is starting, which makes me think about school supplies. We use some school supplies as metaphors in the Open Badges world, the Mozilla Backpack is the place you can store your Open Badges. The...
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Open Badges Hackery at Mozfest
Erin and Jess announcing Badgekit at Mozfest 2013 Following up on a post on the Mozfest blog, I wanted to give a big shout of thanks to the folks that came out to support Open Badges in our hack-track....
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Open Badges Tech Panel – Backpack Federation
The Open Badges team had its first tech panel way back on September 26th. The tech team met with active Open Badges community members to talk through the heavy tech-bits of Backpack Federation (which I...
View ArticleBadgeKit Now!
This is the first in a two part series on Badgekit, the new badge issuing platform from the Mozilla Open Badges team. This post talks about the current suite of issuing tools we’ve built, the next post...
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BadgeKit Future!
This is the second post in a two part series on BadgeKit, in the first part, I wrote about BadgeKit Now, looking at how you can set up a version of BadgeKit on your own servers now. BadgeKit is coming!...
View ArticleMore Context on Brendan Eich’s Appointment as CEO
It goes without saying that Mozilla is an open organization, they promote the open web, promote open source software, and advocate for open learning, open journalism, and even have a pretty badass...
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Remember our old pal the Open Badges Standard?
The specifications that make up the Open Badges Standard form the basis for the Open Badges Infrastructure; the collection of platforms and tools that make Open Badges possible. While the...
View ArticleSimplifying Open Badges Federation
We’ve had “Backpack Federation” on the Open Badges roadmap for a long time. It’s always been the next thing we’re going to work on, but it continually gets pushed down the list by other high priority...
View ArticleOpen Badges and JSON-LD
The BA standard working group has had adding extensions to the OB assertion specification high on its roadmap this summer. We agreed that before we could add an extension to an assertion or Badge...
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The Open Badges Infrastructure
First things first, what do we mean when we say “Open Badges Infrastructure?” Infrastructure is a bit of a loaded term, you can interpret it as servers, you could interpret it as software, or both...
View ArticleHand Crafted Open Badges Display
Earning an Open Badge is easy, there’s plenty of places that offer them, with more issuers signing up every day. Once you’ve earned an open badge, you can push it to your backpack, but what if you want...
View ArticleMe and Open Badges – Different, but the same
Hi there, if you read this blog it’s probably for one of three things, 1) my investigation of the life of Isham Randolph, the chief engineer of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal. 2) you know me and...
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Open Badges Hackery at Mozfest
Erin and Jess announcing Badgekit at Mozfest 2013 Following up on a post on the Mozfest blog, I wanted to give a big shout of thanks to the folks that came out to support Open Badges in our hack-track....
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