Webdev:Badger

Badger is an effort to build an Open Source web application that facilitates the creation and gifting of badges representing community gratitude for a variety of achievements and accomplishments.

Overview / Goals

User:LesOrchard wrote a long proposal about Badger, including some thought about badges as social objects and possible benefits & use cases.

But, in short, Badger aims to support these features:

• Artifacts of gratitude—i.e. badges—as social objects to exchanged, displayed, and discussed.
• Showcasing community values through the things we collectively celebrate.
• Public recognition of community members and their valued contributions.
• Transparent, open processes for participating in creating, awarding, discussing, and evaluating badges.
• Collaboration on badge creation through a "Help Wanted" system that presents minimal overhead for coordination and offers a playful space for creative contribution.
• Mobile device support for awarding badges on the spot and expressing public gratitude in person.
• Rule-based awards triggered by conditions detected on the web in the tools we use for work every day.

Badge ideas

Badger is not *quite* yet in decent enough shape to handle firepower of a fully operational creative community. For now, please share ideas with the discussion group, and soon we can shift onto the app itself.

Discussion

• Created a Google Group, at least for now:
  • http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-badger

Source Code

• Badger may currently be found on GitHub.

Hosting

• There's a demo installation running on User:LesOrchard's hobby server
  • This may or may not be broken right at any particular time.
  • All data may disappear periodically.

See Also

• More notes to come soon