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 Completed 2/2012

• 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
  • Displayer API
  • Rough endorsement API
  • Support around beta Completed 4/2012

• 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 pushed to Q3
  • New issuer API - requiring user-initiated push to the OBI
  • Displayer API low level, needs widgets and more detailed privacy controls

• 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

Q2 OBI UX Improvements

• OBI Features/Function Development
  • Ux overhaul planning
    • Accessibility audit planning

• Adoption
  • 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

• Website planning
  • Homepage revisions & updates
  • Long term consideration of site updates
  • Legal FAQs icon w/ own page or reconsideration of all nav
  • How to highlight items on site
  • Research area

Q3 Open Badger development

• OBI
  • UX improvements for backpack log in and authentication
  • Displayer integration
    • Fb
    • Wordpress
  • Update spec to account for "Pie" badges (i.e. badges that comprise pieces of a pie)

• Open Badger Beta
  • Propose API spec: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadger/wiki/api
  • Ongoing development

• Community
  • Create step by step onboarding documentation and supporting material for new entrants.

• Adoption
  • DML ongoing outreach to 30 funded winners

Q4 Open Badger beta release and OBI v1.0 development

Github 1.0 Milestone

• OBI
  • v1.0 ongoing development
    • Accessibility: 508 compliance
    • COPPA compliant backpack or parallel < 13 backpack development
    • Global badge directory
    • Privacy, data, security review and vetting
    • Operational requirements review for productization

• Open Badger
  • Beta release

• Adoption
  • DML first round of outreach to 60 unfunded winners
  • Identify key partners to onboard
  • Develop strategy map for recruitment
  • Scope and model a distributed support system

• Foundational Frameworks & Practices
  • Draft Badge Validation white paper

• Webmaker badges
  • Release initial round of webmaker badges system