Weeknote 28/2013

This week I’ve been:

• Booking travel/accommodation for what my team are calling ‘Badge Camp’. It’s a work week up in the mountains in Maine, USA where ‘yoga’ and ‘sleeping in’ sit alongside ‘strategy discussions’ as official agenda items. Win.
• Setting up the Eventbrite for Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle at the Centre for Life on Saturday 17th August. Tickets have been going pretty quickly so I’m going to see if there’s scope for extra room.
• Running three Open Badges workshops at the ePIC eportfolios and identity conference in London. Slides here.
• Talking to Robin Raymond, the lead developer of Open Peer about Firecloud.
• Discussing aligning with the Web Literacy Standard with Paul Allison. I’ve realised there’s an issue for those without developers: most (all?) of the third party platforms lack the ‘alignment’ field in the latest version of the OBI specification.
• Encouraging people to sign up for MozFest. It’s the best decision you’ll make this year.
• Editing and posting the audio from the Web Literacy Standard community call that I missed this week. Thanks again to my colleague Carla Casilli for hosting it!
• Sorting out my expenses for June. It was a busy month. 😮
• Purchasing the firecloud.co domain name and setting up a blog. It’s trivially easy to do these days, it really is.
• Inviting the major contributors to the Web Literacy Standard to ‘half-hour hackfests’. They worked really well and I’m thinking of running some more next week!
• Meeting with Carla to discuss what’s left to do with the Web Literacy Standard before the beta launch. Also, plans for some kind of ‘contest’ for people to align with the standard in various ways between MozFest 2013 and MozFest 2014.
• Attending the weekly Mozilla Open Badges and Webmaker community calls.
• Talking with people about integrating with the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) as I do every week. 🙂
• Taking Friday off to look after my two year-old daughter.

Next week I’ve got meetings but no travel so I’ll be cracking on with getting the Web Literacy Standard ready for the beta launch on July 26th. I’m flying to Maine on Sunday 21st so it needs to be pretty much finalised by close of play next Friday!