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.
Discussion
- Created a Google Group, at least for now:
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