<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
== Sugar Digest ==<br>2. Following up on a thread begun in mid July<br>
[<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-July/013736.html</a>] the<br>
Sugar oversight board passed a motion to empower Sugar Labs to award<br>
certificates to developers to acknowledge and celebrate their<br>
contributions to the Sugar Learning Platform. Several certificates<br>
will be made available, based upon the area of contribution. The<br>
certification mechanism is decentralized: the specific criteria for<br>
certification will be determined by the Sugar Labs team coordinators;<br>
in general, it will involve a repeated effort on behalf of the team's<br>
goals at a high level of quality.<br>
<br>
As an example, the Activity team may issue a Sugar Activity Developer<br>
certificate to an individual who develops at least one Sugar activity<br>
that is subsequently posted on the Sugar activity portal and be of<br>
sufficient quality to be approved for public release. The activity<br>
must also include internationalization, including the submission of a<br>
POT file to the Translation Team, and documentation, including the<br>
creation of a page in the wiki under the Activity category. As will<br>
the Contributor certificates, sign off will be made by the associated<br>
team coordinators, in this case the Activity team.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Excellent news! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="http://erinknight.com/post/8650391369/obi-alpha">http://erinknight.com/post/8650391369/obi-alpha</a>). 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.</div>
<div> </div><div>Cheers,<br>Christoph</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com" target="_blank">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>