Tech details (Under construction):

• Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI):
  • third party website that our users will use to manage and share the badges that were awarded to them.
  • currently visible at http://alpha.badgehub.org/ (moving to a different url and server in the future)
  • the external dependency used to interact with this site is https://github.com/brianlovesdata/django-obi (developed by Brian)
  • we  need to provide a badge_getter function that receives a django user and  returns a dictionary with data about each of the awarded badges  (identified by a slug/string) to a user (identified by an email  address). -- for details ask Brian and see https://github.com/brianlovesdata/django-obi/blob/master/README.md
  • Feature request to OBI and django_obi: provide a simple way for the issuers to move badges from an email to another or link together several email addresses.
    • Use case: allow the issuer to provide their users with the functionality of changing their email address in the issuer system.
• Award (badges.Award):
  • processed by the badge_getter function.
  • model fields: user (users.UserProfile), badge (badges.Badge), evidence (GenericForeignKey)
  • award.get_absolute_url will be the evidence url sent to OBI, and the associated view/template will display data from the user, the badge, and the evidence
• Badge (badges.Badge):
  • model fields: name (CharField), slug (CharField), image (ImageField), short description (CharField),  long description (RichTextField), scope (GenericForeignKey), assesments (GenericRelation), 
  • its slug, name, and short description are sent to OBI
  • badge.get_image_url() -- provides the image url sent to OBI
  • badges.scope has to implement access control methods for the addition, edition, and deletion of a badge associated to that scope (initially will have the content_type of School, and maybe in the future the content type of Project)
  • badges.assesments and badges.awards -- generic relationships are explained in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/contenttypes/#reverse-generic-relations
• Assesment (this is not a model but many so i am describing the interface they need to provide)
  • 
    

Assesment Types:

• Honorary:
  • extra data: submitions (list of honor)
  • submition:  id (number), candidate (who will receive the badge), author (who did  the submition -- needs to be allowed by the assesment scope), evidence  (rich text)
  • login: award the badge automatically for all submitions