[FM Discuss] Book Sprint Badges

[helen varley jamieson]

interesting article; i have to say that badges make me think of brownies 
& scouts, & as someone who was a rather bad brownie in my youth, the 
idea of earning badges is more of a disincentive for me than an 
incentive ...

giving people roles/job descriptions is a good motivator - i've learned 
that with volunteers, if you invite someone to take on a specific role, 
& they can say "i am the such&such for this project" they are more 
likely to take ownership & initiative than if they feel like they are 
just a random helper.

but i haven't read much about how the badges would work - maybe for 
something specific like book sprint leaders it could be a good idea.

h : )

On 6/04/12 7:54 PM, Janet Swisher wrote:
> Obviously, the Mozilla Foundation folks on the Open Badges project
> have been doing a lot of thinking about how to make badges for and by
> communities. It's still early days, so everybody's still trying to
> figure it out. Here's an example:
> http://sharing-nicely.net/2012/03/lets-make-badges-not-stink/
>
> I especially like the point "Anchor badges within the community".
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:34 AM, adam<adam at flossmanuals.net>  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.
> Is that the one by Les Orchard? I think it predates the Open Badges
> infrastructure, but he may have now updated to be OB-compatible. If
> you reach out to him, tell him I sent you. But he may be busy and slow
> to respond until mid-May, due to a software release.
>
> --Janet
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