On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote:
> == Sugar Digest == > 2. Following up on a thread begun in mid July > [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html] the > Sugar oversight board passed a motion to empower Sugar Labs to award > certificates to developers to acknowledge and celebrate their > contributions to the Sugar Learning Platform. Several certificates > will be made available, based upon the area of contribution. The > certification mechanism is decentralized: the specific criteria for > certification will be determined by the Sugar Labs team coordinators; > in general, it will involve a repeated effort on behalf of the team's > goals at a high level of quality. > > As an example, the Activity team may issue a Sugar Activity Developer > certificate to an individual who develops at least one Sugar activity > that is subsequently posted on the Sugar activity portal and be of > sufficient quality to be approved for public release. The activity > must also include internationalization, including the submission of a > POT file to the Translation Team, and documentation, including the > creation of a page in the wiki under the Activity category. As will > the Contributor certificates, sign off will be made by the associated > team coordinators, in this case the Activity team. > Excellent news! :-) In this context it might also be worth keeping an eye on the Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) project which released its alpha version last week (http://erinknight.com/post/8650391369/obi-alpha). At least from the description on the site it sounds like a useful infrastructure effort which Sugar Labs might be able to build on somewhere down the road. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com
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