Haïkel Guémar (@hguemar)

Fedora Developer since 2006

Senior Software Engineer @ SysFera

The process of game thinking and mechanics to engage users and solve problems wikipedia definition

• FOSS communities needs contributors
• To motivate (and keep) contributors => recognition of skills and achievements

• Mozilla OpenBadges (launched in september 2011)
• A recognition system that allows awarding virtual badges
• Open Standard initiative funded by MoFo & McArthur Foundation
• http://openbadges.org/

• FAS & group memberships
• Ask Fedora, wiki edits
• IRC meetings, fedora planet
• build/update system
• community awarded badges
• event attendance

• Defines a badge as a JSON blob

A badge is:

• title
• description
• image
• link to criteria to award the badge

• A badge is awarded by creating an assertion
• An assertion associates a badge with an email
• Assertions are JSON blobs that lives at cryptic urls
• Badge validity is checked by confirming that the JSON blob lives at the badge urls

• Anyone can issue badges

Who already award badges:

• NASA
• Disney/Pixar
• Moodle
• Intel
• US Dpt of Education (soon)
• FedoraProject.org ;)

• You can export your badges to your Mozilla Backpack (http://beta.openbadges.org)
• Backpacks are decentralized
• Fedora Badges is technically a backpack
• Mozilla backpack is the original one and offers widgets to display your badges on any website

Fedora Badges relies on 5 components of Fedora Infrastructure:

• fedmsg
• datanommer
• fedbadges
• tahrir-api
• tahrir

• Message bus that links every Fedora services together
• Any action in Fedora services triggers a message
• http://fedmsg.com

• Persistence layer of fedmsg
• Consumer that stores messages in a database

• Hooks Tahrir component into fedmsg
• Contains badges criteria as YAML files
• http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/badges/rules/
• https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedbadges

• Database model for Fedora Badges
• Database connector API
• Powered by SQLAlchemy
• https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir-api

• Web application to view your (and your friends) badges
• Allows exploring available badges
• "Realtime" charts
• Powered by Pyramid
• https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir

• System-agnostic: not really tied to Fedora
• Can be configured to use any openID provider

In the future:

• Pluggable authentication
• More customizable themes

• End-user might gain badges while using their distro
• Desktop notifications
• Anyone could award badges like You made 's day!

• Since it's official launch, contributors are suggesting new badges
• We need to define a badge creation process
• When you suggest a badge, you get a badge too !
• https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges

Ralph Bean -- Fedora Badges lead

David Gay -- Fedora Badges intern

Mairin Duffy & Jennifer Kotler -- Fedora Design Fairies

And all the guys from Fedora Infrastructure Team