Open Badges Workgroup

02 February 2017

MINUTES

Archived recording (available for 30 days)

Attendance:

Alex Reis (D2L), Charles Touron (US Dept of Army), David Leaser (IBM), Mark Mercury (Acclaim), Mike Macklin (CSU Online), Patrina Law (Open U), Novak Rogic (UBC), Phil Long (UT-Austin), Tim Cook (LRNG), Will Engle (UBC), Jason Weaver (Parchment)

1. Welcome and Introductions

   • 1EdTech Intellectual Property statement: https://www.imsglobal.org/ip

   • Minutes from last meeting posted in forum

2. Update on GitHub organization

3. Feedback from your review of the OB specification

4. Review recently added issues

   • Approach is to confirm that spec is good and implementable and can be approved as 1EdTech working specification by Dig Cred & Badges Exec Bd by Mar 1

   • Agreement that existing typos or critical showstopper issues with existing published specification will be approved, pushed to master branch and published.

   • Markus provided detailed overview of how GitHub will be used to manage the 1EdTech version of the OB specification:

     • New branch called IMS2.0 will be used and edited going forward

     • Issues #9-93 pre-date our workgroup

     • New issues added in last week; mostly minor updates that do not affect functionality or capabilities of spec. Open for commenting and questions.

     • Group will continue systematic review next meeting

5. Planning for in-person meeting at Feb Quarterly

   • At least 4 on call indicated they were attending (plus Markus and Jeff)

   • Agenda suggestions

     • Workgroup tasks to be determined

     • Special topics

       • Jeff suggested a review of Extended Transcript and relationship with OB

       • Tim suggested “once and for all an approach to badge portability/interoperability - could be fun”

       • Nate suggested a project show-and-tell be held as part of the Community meeting

REMINDERS

Upcoming 1EdTech Quarterly Mtg and Summit on Digital Credentials & Badges

• February 27 - March 2, Orlando.

  • Day-long Summit: Feb 28

  • OB Community Council: Mar 1 (open to public)

  • OB Working Group f2f: Mar 2

Next Meeting

Thursday, Feb 9, 12:00pm EST; details