[FM Discuss] Book Sprint Badges

[adam]

so, i think your points are bang on. fm is a very strong as a community 
and i have some doubts about suggesting badges because of this. however 
one thing that we lack and its a broader issue, is training for people 
who want to host short sprints, update sprints, or full blown book sprints.

this is actually a specific skill set, and it might be worthwhile to 
look at the badges system as a kind of mentoring process as much as 
anything. a sprint focused mentoring process that is explicit and one 
that has porous entry points

at the moment if you want to do sprints then you either do it cold or 
you come and talk to me about how to get it done. that kinda sucks. fm 
should take more ownership of the sprint process. it originated in fm 
(as a practice, the idea came first from tomas krag). so why dont we get 
community building within fm around learning these skills. show the 
world that fm can scale this idea, take us to even another level of 
astonishing feats by our community - badges could provide good 
mechanisms for inspiring people to do weekend update sprints (etc) so 
they can participate in the badge/mentoring process, learn how to hold 
sprints,  get recognition for it and ave an explicit avenue for getting 
better at it


adam

On 06/04/12 12:50, Mick Fuzz wrote:
> On 06/04/12 10:34, adam wrote:
>> so, I think this badges stuff could be cool. I am working with
>> Siyavula in Capetown to integrate Open Badges into Booktype. When I
>> see how it is done we could integrate it into FM.
>>
>> There is a django-bdger app that im looking into.
>>
>> What would be cool is if we could get a discussion on what the badges
>> could be and how to integrate them into FM (not technically).
>>
>> As I see it there needs to be complete 'buy in' so the badges should
>> be something the community constructs. The process should be
>> transparent from head to toe...
>>
>> anyone want to start with suggestions on how it can work?
> I'm happy to pitch in. If only to be the first person to post this link
> about 'we don't need no stinkin' badges!'
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU
>
> Just to be devil's advocate and get the discussion going...
> Can you tells us more about why the FM community need badges.
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/About
> from this website..
>
> "The web and other new learning spaces provide exciting ways to gain
> skills and experience -- from online courses, learning networks and
> mentorship to peer learning, volunteering and after-school programs.
> Badges provide a way for learners to get recognition for these skills,
> and display them to potential employers, schools, colleagues and their
> community"
>
> But realistically the FM community don't provide any training.  This
> isn't really the focus of the project, there is not group of people we
> can point to and say 'they these guys want recognition for their skills'
> -  so why are badges important to us?
>
> nice one
> Mick
>
>
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