> The most promising of these was Badgr (https://badgr.com/) which seems to have become a paid service, and not open any more.
An active fork of badgr is available on https://github.com/edubadges/edubadges-server. > can someone step up to do the research to find one? I've played around with badgr.com a bit and was able to create the following organization and badge very quickly (the site usability is pretty good): - ORG: https://badgr.com/public/issuers/bumbzeisQSuoN3Q_G4753Q/badges - BADGE: https://badgr.com/public/assertions/ROzmBXUXQ9Cs86uMYdrGvA?identity__email=pauloricardomg%40gmail.com I've added more details about the fields required to create badges on this comment: - https://github.com/apache/comdev-working-groups/pull/26#issuecomment-1970310015 If moving forward with badgr make sense I can create a spreadsheet for folks to suggest badge types so we can get them set up. Then we can advertise to projects who can opt-in to the badging system. We could initially emit badges manually and later work on automating the process with stats from contribution feeds. On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 9:18 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
