Badges/roadmap

2014 Roadmap

BadgeKit roadmap: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit/wiki/Milestone-Roadmap-Q1-2014

2013 Roadmap

2013 Highlights

• OBI v1.0+ release(s)
• Enhanced Backpack and OBI User Experience
• Exemplars, large-scale proofs of concept
• Open Badges issuing stack
• Community Platform
• Badge validation solution / APIs / frameworks

Q1: Ship OBI v1.0

• OBI Github 1.0 Milestone
  • v1.0 development and release
    • COPPA Stance
    • Extending metadata spec - a. standards alignment
    • Extending metadata spec - b. tags
    • 508 compliance
    • Signed badges
    • Backpack connect - autopush of badges from approved issuers
    • Revocation of badges
    • Badge expiration
    • user experience improvements

• Badge Validation
  • Publish paper; get consensus on the solution we're working towards

Q2: Chicago, Issuing Tools, OBI v1.5 Development

• OBI
  • Define, scope and start development on v1.5
  • Backpack federation planning and development
  • Define Endorsement specification

• Exemplars
  • Chicago
    • Ship CSOL badges
    • Deliver issuing 'stack' and enhanced Backpacks for Chicago
  • Mozilla badge system
    • Initial Mozilla-wide badges launched
    • Development of additional levels of webmaker badges and learning content

• Adoption
  • Continued support and partnerships
  • Strategic

• Community
  • Community platform development and beta release

Q3: OBI v1.5 release

• OBI
  • v1.5 release
  • Fully federated OBI release
  • Resume builder beta release

• Exemplars
  • Chicago
    • Maintenance and additional features
  • Mozilla Badge System
    • Multiple levels of badges and leveling up available for the Webmaker badges
    • Common issuing platform and experience for Mozilla badges
  • San Francisco
    • Kick off work for SF badges

• Adoption
  • Tools
    • Resume builder and other tool development
  • Recruitment
    • Employer advisory board

• Community
  • Working with community members to build out the knowledge base

• Foundational Frameworks and Practices
  • Initial policy practices in place
  • Community contribution to best practices

• Foundational Frameworks and Practices
  • Publish badge system design best practices

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

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)
  • 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
  • Proposed 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
  • Privacy, data, security review and vetting
  • Operational requirements review for beta public release
  • 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

• Mozilla badge system
  • Release initial round of webmaker badges system