[Dprglist] DPRG Badging

[Doug Paradis]

James,
    Interesting idea. I would like to see how difficult it would be to
implement. It might be hard to get some older members to buy into it ("I
don't need no stinking badges"). I think that it would be good way for new
members to see how they are progressing.

Regards,
Doug P.

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:11 PM, James LeRoy <james at getsurreal.com> wrote:

> I was curious what the group thinks of implementing a badging system.
> With the challenges of keeping competitions interesting for advanced
> roboticists, but then the barrier being too high for new roboticists a
> badging system could be very interesting.  Unlike the competitions, badges
> can be earned anytime throughout the year.
>
> We've discussed some of these basics in DPRG meetings so we could have
> badges like:
>
>
>    - MicroController - Arduino basics.  8bit AVRs, 32bit ARM
>    - Motor Control - Driving a straight line
>    - Odometry - Rotating 360 degrees, driving a square.
>    - Displays - Matrix displays, LCD displays
>    - Sensors - Ping, IR, etc.
>    - Having a robot that turns on :)
>    - And many more...
>
>
> But we can also issue badges for things like:
>
>
>    - Entering a DPRG competition
>    - Placing top three in a DPRG competition
>    - Volunteering at a DPRG event
>    - Making a presentation at a DPRG meeting
>
>
> Mozilla has an open source badging system https://openbadges.org/ and
> there is a free WordPress plugin, https://wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos/,
> that should make it easy to manage the badges on the DPRG site.
>
> What's unique about these badges is they have data embedded in them that
> identify the person that earned it and they can have links in them that
> validate the badge.  i.e.  People can post youtube videos for verification.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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