MozFest 2016 — putting Open Badges back on the map!
Following on from several amazing years of Open Badges at MozFest, we’re planning to bring Open Badges to their inaugural home and explore how we can take badging to the next level.
Over the past four years, DigitalMe has worked closely with Mozilla to advocate for the Open Badge standard, to implement badge projects in the UK and Europe, and, more recently, take on direct leadership of Open Badges, on behalf of Mozilla.
Since Mozfest 2014, Over 250 amazing badge projects have been shared via the Badge the World map. As part of this next phase, would like to support the community at Mozfest 2016 to showcase how they have been using badges, to make practical contributions to the Open Badges infrastructure and work together to develop a vision for the future via the Open Badges floor.
- Showcase: Share innovative examples of badge projects happening around the world
- Infrastructure: Contribute to the next version of the open badges technical infrastructure, through Hack the BackPack sessions and discussion around the standard/extensions
- Advocacy: Connect with partners and build networks to further support the expansion of the badge ecosystem world-wide
To ensure all Mozfest revellers get recognition for their efforts during the festival, we are calling on all Space Wranglers and session leaders to consider the opportunity to plug badges into your spaces and sessions, and where appropriate link sessions to run in the Open Badges space. With the plan to recognise and ‘credentialise’ all of the amazing things that happen at MozFest, it really feels like we can help to ramp up the experience throughout the festival and beyond!
Call for proposals is now live — so submit your session and help us continue the badging journey.
Matt — matt.rogers@digitalme.co.uk
