[FM Discuss] Book Sprint Badges

[Janet Swisher]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:17 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> what we need is some careful prototyping and discussion. i have looked into
> the badge issuer that les orchard made and we can effectively 'drop it
> straight in' to booki. I tested it and it works as you can see from these
> basic examples:
> http://booktype-test.sourcefabric.org/_badge/badge/sharer/awards/8.json
> http://booktype-test.sourcefabric.org/_badge/badge/sharer
> http://booktype-test.sourcefabric.org/_badge/awards
>
> all coming out of a booktype install with django-badger live
>
> what we dont have and it would be good to make a generic code base for - is
> a python app for quizzes that :
> 1. made making quizzes/exercises easy
> 2. made tagging them to badges easy
> 3. made awarding badges upon completion automagic
>
> Janet - i dont spose there is anyone in mozilla with some python/js skills
> that could make this? it could be a code base with wide application as it
> seems a missing part of the OBI tool chain if you ask me...a quiz maker
> would be pretty easy to make i think and something moz could give to the
> world as well as us :)))

I posted to the Mozilla WebDev group (they are the Django hackers) to
see if anybody is interested in this as a side project. I'll let you
know if I get any bites.

--Janet