[FM Discuss] Book Sprint Badges

[adam]

hey

i was wondering actually if we should connect badges to some of the 
manuals? make small quizzes and connect the badges to that

adam

On 07/04/12 17:29, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> 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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