Re: [UG-ADMINS] badges

Sounds great. Let's make it so!

-Ben

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Cal Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like having PHP Community as an umbrella
>
> Then we can do badges for all sorts of things
> UG could be a subgroup of this.
> Under that we can have PHPC badges for attendance, speaking, leadership,
> etc.
> Then under that if any UG wants to issue their own, they could.
>
> Cheers!
> =C=
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Ben Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> OpenBadges looks great. How would we begin?
>>
>> Looks like we might either want to create a single "PHP User Groups"
>> entity as an issuer and work with a designer to design badges for all the
>> user groups, or we could each individually do it and have our own badges.
>>
>> Or we could go bigger and have a "PHP Community" entity as a badge issuer
>> that could have badges for all sorts of things related to user groups,
>> conference attendance, etc. Speaking of which, I've been wanting to
>> jump-start the phpcommunity.org project again, and maybe this is a good
>> thing to live under that umbrella?
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Cal Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is an excellent idea.
>>>
>>> =C=
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Stuart Grimshaw <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Mozilla's OpenBadges would be perfect for this, if we had a common set
>>> > among all the PHP user groups on this list, including some special
>>> ones for
>>> > attending/speaking in x different countries, things like that.
>>> >
>>> > http://openbadges.org/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -S
>>> >
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>>> > On 30 January 2015 at 15:27, Chris Spruck <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Heya Cal!
>>> > >
>>> > > I have mine somewhere as well. :) I understood the original post
>>> meant
>>> > > virtual, but just mentioned what I did as possible examples to think
>>> of.
>>> > > Could do both virtual and physical, but virtual is probably easier
>>> and
>>> > > cheaper.
>>> > >
>>> > > (This just bounced twice due to "spammy URLs", so apologies for the
>>> > > malformed URLs and dropping the prior quoted posts.) I just recalled
>>> that
>>> > > coderwall .com has some examples of virtual badges too. I don't have
>>> a
>>> > > profile there, but this link is a friend of mine - coderwall
>>> > > .com/theinfamousrj
>>> > >
>>> > > Chris
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
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