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Badges Project

June 2011 Board of Directors Conference Call

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges

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Make it easy to collect and display badges earned all across the web.

Big vision: badges revolutionize how we incent and recognize learning, become an important part of online reputation. Our offering: badge ‘backpack’ built on Mozilla identity tech, let’s people collect and publish badges from across the web.

Details and roadmap: wiki.mozilla.org/Badges

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Overview

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• What: develop Mozilla badge ‘backpack’ software

plus do P2PU and Hackasaurus badge pilots.

• Context: tremendous interest in badges to incent

and recognize informal learning online.

• MacArthur, White House, etc. want to work with Mozilla on badge tech.
• Status: alpha version nearly done for P2PU
• deployment. Beta for broader use in January 2012.
• Resources: add more engineering and partner

support resources.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Vision

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• Vision: revolutionize how we incent and recognize
• learning. Help people open doors and get jobs.
• Big gap: traditional credentials don’t work well for skills people need today.
• Context: huge wave emerging around badges

amongst people working on informal online learning.

• Mozilla using for School of Webcraft. MacArthur, Khan Academy, etc. rolling
• ut badges. Significant money and need for tech solutions in this space.
• Mozilla can play key role: making badges portable,

connecting them into open identity / API-to-me.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Offering

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Mozilla’s primary offering is a ‘backpack’ that let’s people gather and re-publish badges across sites. We will also demo end-to- end badge offerings with School of Webcraft and Hackasaurus.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Offering

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Demand: MacArthur and others don’t want badges

• siloed. Originally looked at Facebook as solution.

This is simply a metadata container, set of APIs and

• verification. Builds on MozLabs ID and web apps work.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Status

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• Alpha badge backpack plus end-to-end demo

planned for deployment on P2PU in July.

• Full time product manager plus engineer working on this launch.

People from Mozilla Labs identity and web apps teams actively advising.

• Possibility of badges innovation competition. Projects

would build on our software.

• White House Office of Science and Tech / Dept. of

Education also want to work with us on badges.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Plan

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• Release beta / firm metadata spec by January 2012.
• Work with MacArthur partner projects on more

end-to-end deployments Q1 - Q3 2012.

• This involves: helping badge issuers publish to our system / creating widgets

to re-publish to 3rd parties. Also, infrastructure and UX more robust.

• Q3 2012(?): encourage wide adoption of ‘backpack’.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Risks

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• Biggest risk: getting from concept to product.
• MoFo inexperienced at this as a team / haven’t done before. Partly mitigated

by strong team lead with educational product experience (Blackboard).

• Also: falling out of sync with Mozilla identity and web

apps teams.

• Strong link to Hanson and Thunder. Good support from Todd (VP Labs).
• Worst case: ‘backpack’ software works independently of MozID etc.

However, would be a pretty big loss in terms of the overall vision.

• General: Moz seen as solution to ‘everything badges’.

June 2011 - Mozilla Foundation Board Slides

Badges: Summary

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• Badges project helps us advance three goals: SoW

adoption, Hacksaurus adoption and open identity.

• Also: positions Mozilla as leading innovator in

education space, MacArthur deepens partnership.

• Next steps: expand team, move into testing mode.

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Badges Project

June 2011 Board of Directors Conference Call