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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">1. integration with email:
i am pretty sure you can embed the badges in email e.g. in your
signature<br>
2. who decides to give badges: my guess is that it would be the
community<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/08/2012 2:05 AM, Ludovic
Hirlimann wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5020DA56.9010509@mozilla.com" type="cite">On
7/27/12 1:37 AM, Anne-Marie Bourcier wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hello,
<br>
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In the spring, the Mozilla Foundation launched the "Open Badges"
program (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openbadges.org/">http://openbadges.org/</a>). The intention of Open Badges
is to provide a standardized open framework that enables
organizations to issue digital "badges" that recognize skills or
achievements.
<br>
<br>
The Thunderbird team thought it would be great to implement an
Open Badges program for Thunderbird contributors. We started
brainstorming about how we could implement the program and
talking with the very helpful and enthusiastic Foundation folks
who work on the project.
<br>
<br>
However, now that we are changing Thunderbird's governance
model, we need to find out if the Thunderbird community thinks
it is worthwhile to implement Thunderbird Badges and if the
community is able and willing to run the program for themselves
in the long term. If the community likes the idea and wants to
move ahead, we will do all the preparation and set up the
technical aspects and then hand the program over to the
community in the fall.
<br>
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To run the program, the community would have to implement some
kind of process where contributions in various areas were
tracked and significant contributions were forwarded to a person
who generated the badges. The badge program would require an
ongoing commitment, because it wouldn't be fair if badges were
only issued to a few people and then the program was dropped.
Also, the criteria for issuing badges must be clear so that the
process is not open to favoritism.
<br>
<br>
A summary of our thinking about how to implement badges follows
(however keep in mind that the community is welcome to alter as
they see fit):
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<br>
A badge rewards a demonstration of competency, not a degree of
contribution. A badge isn't a reward for effort; it's a
validation of a demonstrable skill.
<br>
<br>
Given that model, the Thunderbird Community could implement
badges for these kinds of things:
<br>
<br>
- Thunderbird Core Contributor Badge: People who contribute a
significant patch to the Thunderbird core, thus demonstrating a
competency in programming.
<br>
<br>
- Thunderbird Add-on Developer Badge: People who create a
Thunderbird add-on that is accepted by AMO, thus demonstrating a
competency in programming.
<br>
<br>
- Thunderbird Knowledge Base Author Badge: People who create a
Thunderbird Knowledge Base article that uses a set of the more
complex formatting tools (templates, tables, images, etc), thus
demonstrating a competency in authoring on a wiki platform and
technical writing.
<br>
<br>
- Thunderbird Support Contributor Badge: for people solving
questions (reward based on number of answers or technical
accuracy)
<br>
<br>
- Thunderbird Ambassador Badge: People who create something
significant outside the normal venues for contribution. For
example, a Thunderbird contributor recently wrote a P2PU course
and supporting workbook that explains how to set up PGP for use
with Thunderbird. This is a significant effort that brings
attention to Thunderbird from a whole new group.
<br>
<br>
This wiki page describes our thinking and our progress on the
project: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Open_Badges">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Open_Badges</a>
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These seems to be very web based - would be nice to find a great
way to have them integrate with email.
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I like the idea of recognizing once involvement in the project.
What's missing above , is who decides to give badges ? But I think
once we've figured out some TB dev, that should be an easy
question.
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Ludo
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