Badges/roadmap

2012 Roadmap

2012 Must Haves

• New openbadges.org
• New, streamlined documentation
• Demo [by DML March 1]
  • Available on new website
  • Features:
    • Demo backpack interface and user flow
    • Demo pushing badges to display sites

• Ship OBI Beta by end of Q1 (*aiming for end of Q1 but may have issues with legal that push into Q2)
  • Contributor engagement workflow
  • Issuer API
  • Display API
  • Rough endorsement API
  • Support around beta

• OBI 1.0 by end of year

Q1: Ship Beta

Badges/PublicBeta

Github Public Beta Milestone

• Ship OBI beta by end of Q1 (aiming for end of Q1)
  • Contributor engagement workflow improvement (Getting developer community to tap into OBI with facility)
  • First party signing of badge manifest
  • New issuer API - requiring user-initiated push to the OBI
  • Displayer API

• Planning for next release
  • Prototyping Endorser workflow
  • Planning for Backpack feature enhancements
  • Kick off Ux work

• Openbadges.org
  • Website redesign
  • Revised documentation
  • Get Started on earning badges feature in website redesign
  • OBI backpack and user mgmt demo

• Legal
  • Initial terms of service and privacy policy FAQs
    • NOTE - this is a risk, will at least have the initial plan outline but its slow going

Q2 Beta Support and Improvement

• Features/Function Development
  • Ux overhaul
    • Accessibility audit/updates
  • Beta Endorsement API
  • Backpack feature enhancements (narratives around groups, etc)

• Feature planning for OBI 1.0
  • Issuer/Displayer focus groups
    • i.e. badge categories/taxonomies in manifest, optional badge frameworks, releasing aggregate anonymous data for tracking, revisit discoverability, etc.

• Partner Support/Management
  • DML winner support (ongoing)
  • Strategically recruit partner (ongoing)
  • Onramping first wave of issuers/displayers (i.e. get people pushing badges in and out)

• Legal
  • FAQs fully fleshed out

Q3 Research and Planning for 1.0

• Features/Function Development
  • Full-fledged endorsement API
  • OBI 1.0 development
    • Based on partner mgmt and DML partners
    • Increase ease of federation
      • Make APIs more open
      • Enable inputting your own URLs
      • Increase data portability/standard export format for badges
      • OPML of badges

• Operational Readiness for 1.0
  • Operational requirements for productization
    • UDC approval, security review, scaling etc.

• Partner Support/Management
  • DML winner support (ongoing)
  • Strategically recruit partners (ongoing)
  • Value added tools development research & development
    • Apps/cool tools on top of backpack
      • Heatmap for badges

Q4 Develop and Ship 1.0

Github 1.0 Milestone

• Ship OBI 1.0
• Marketing/communications push
• DML launch
• Partner Support/Management
  • DML winner support (ongoing)
  • Strategically recruit partners (ongoing)