Re: [UG-ADMINS] badges

I've created a proof-of-concept for badges on joind.in a long time ago. Might be nice to incorporate such idea into joind.in for even broader recognition?

On Jan 30, 2015 5:29 PM, Stuart Grimshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Doesn't seem all that tricky to issue them 
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> http://openbadges.org/issue/ 
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> On 30 January 2015 at 16:17, Ben Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: 
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> > Sounds great. Let's make it so! 
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> > -Ben 
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> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Cal Evans <[email protected]> wrote: 
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> >> I like having PHP Community as an umbrella 
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> >> 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. 
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> >> Cheers! 
> >> =C= 
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> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Ben Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: 
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> >>> OpenBadges looks great. How would we begin? 
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> >>> 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 
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> >>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Cal Evans <[email protected]> wrote: 
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> >>>> I think this is an excellent idea. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> =C= 
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> >>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Stuart Grimshaw < 
> >>>> [email protected]> 
> >>>> wrote: 
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> >>>> > 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/ 
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> >>>> > 
> >>>> > -S 
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> >>>> > On 30 January 2015 at 15:27, Chris Spruck <[email protected]> 
> >>>> wrote: 
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> >>>> > > 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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