[Sugar-devel] [Sugar-news] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-08-07

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at 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

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Christoph Derndorfer
co-editor, olpcnews
url: www.olpcnews.com
e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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