So … a few years ago, I looked for badging software, and there were several options. It appears that all of them have been acquired and made non-open. The most promising of these was Badgr (https://badgr.com/) which seems to have become a paid service, and not open any more.
Another one - https://openbadges.org/ - appears to have become a group promoting a standard for badges, but not actually providing a reference implementation. There are several “certified” implementations (https://site.imsglobal.org/certifications?refinementList%5Bstandards_lvlx%5D%5B0%5D=Open%20Badges ) but I don’t know if any of those are open source. My canonical version of badging done well, as I mentioned in the README, is Fedora Badges - https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ - but while it is, technically, open source (https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir), it’s also very Fedora specific, and past attempts to get it to be more generic were not welcome. (Mostly because, at the time, they, too, were planning to move to a more general purpose solution, which, since that time, has gone non-open.) I am *very* reluctant to write something (and, no, I don’t mean me personally, but *us*) because that will be a forever project that will likely end up unmaintained, like several endeavors in the past. But I suppose that’s an option. I just feel like it should be a last resort. Are any of you aware of a badging solution that we can use? Or, can someone step up to do the research to find one? — Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com
