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.
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.
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.
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!
Hosting the Open Badges community call for the first time for a while.
Talking some more and reaching out to various people within Mozilla about Firecloud.
Writing a post for DMLcentral about the NSA, Mozilla and privacy that I hope will go live on Monday.
Claiming back expenses for speaking at recent events.
Meeting with my newest colleague Meg Cole via Skype.
Getting some training on interviews with the media from Erica Sackin.
Participating in a great day of networking, sharing and planning for a new city-wide learning co-operative (potentially powered by badges!) hosted by the University of Salford.
This week I’ve done loads of stuff myself, but my colleagues have been even busier. This week Mozilla has, well done pretty much everything:
Launched a global activism campaign at the head of a large coalition: StopWatching.Us
Launched the 2M Better Futures badge commitment with President Clinton
Opened our new(ly refurbished) offices in Paris and San Francisco
Next week I’m presenting at the Learning and Skills Group (London, Tuesday) and moderating a session on ‘Digital Skills for Work and Learning’ at the EC Digital Agenda Assembly 2013 (Dublin, Wednesday). I’m also looking forward to working with the Mozilla comms team on next month’s beta release of the Web Literacy Standard.
Talking to people via Skype and in person about integrating with the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI). I had my closest meeting yet – just 5 miles away! Also, excitingly, it looks like CoderDojo might be badgifying their belts!
Starting planning an Open Badges workshop focusing on assessment at the Mozilla London office in June. I then had to postpone/cancel it as I’ve been invited to an EU summit on the same date.
Next week it’s Bank Holiday (woo!) then I’m in London on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning for a meeting with Lord Jim Knight. Then on Friday I’m in Salford to talk to the BBC about Open Badges for their CPD programme(s).
