On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Jennifer Kotler wrote:
Hi guys,
This is the feedback I received from Fedora Design.
Hi all, first I just wante to add some context here for posterity: Jenn's original email and responses: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2013-May/006384.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2013-June/006385.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2013-June/006386.html
I'm cc'ing the badges@lists.fedoraproject.org list so these discussions can be preserved and be open -- better that than "closed". :) You can subscribe to that list here -- it might make it easier in the future if we just write to that list instead of cc'ing each other. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/badges
I also cc'd the design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org list again, so maybe we can help answer some of their questions.
*Suggestions from Fedora design*:
-Is there any friend-badges interaction planed?
I think we can say "yes" to this. On the wiki we have planned two "types" of Fedora badges https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Open_Badges#Two_Types_of_badges
- "Distro Badges" -- these are awarded by "the fedora project" and are automatic. - "Community Badges" -- these are awarded by one contributor to another. I think this is what they mean by "friend badges".
-Where would be planned to add this badges? as banner? at wiki? at FAS2?
The short answer is that: "we'll display them on a badges site that doesn't exist yet. David Gay (oddshocks) is working on that."
Down the road, we'll be able to display them anywhere! Because we're taking advantage of Mozilla's Open Badges Infrastructure, we should be able to, in the future, build flexible embeddable view for badges all around the web -- not just on fedora sites. Read more here: http://openbadges.org/
- Simple auto-update banner that they can add at their blogs.
Yes. This would rock. Let's make it happen -- but let's slate it for future development. We can add it after we get our proof of concept up and working and awarding real badges to real contributors.
The next person liked my design and thought it would be preferable to the current start.fedoraproject.org, and then listed suggestions as follows:
- Take the current start.fedoraproject.org page content
- Add your design, and the latest news content, with FAS login
- Add personal settings links, datas (eg. subscription management
extraction from FAS2)
- Add events, upcoming events and meetings, tasks (this is the
currently under testing Fedora calendar project - https://fedocal.dev.fedoraproject.org/)
- Add your badges design next to the person profile, and introduction
if he/she logs in (this is currently in wiki-mostly used by ambassadors.)
I am not sure if they meant that I just re-skin that site separately, or that we can add our functionality to that site.
This seems cool, but also like a much bigger project. There is a *lot* of stuff that *could* be added to start.fedoraproject.org, but I think that's a question that needs to be considered and settled by the websites team. I'd be glad to build extensions to our badges stack to allow it to be embedded in start.fp.o, but reorganizing start.fp.o itself is outside the scope of our initial badges launch here (in my opinion ;p)
FWIW, the "fedocal" app is actually out of testing and is in production now! https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar Pierre made that happen. :)
What do you think about these suggestions? Are any of these possible to develop? (ie: the auto updating banner)
Yeah! Good stuff! :)
-Ralph
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