Set Up a Badge Issuer Account

[amiller-gh]

Many badge issuer services are built-in to educational tools (ex: Moodle, BadgeList, ForAllRubrics, TopClass, etc...), others are more enterprise focused (ex: Acclaim, NOCTI, Bestr, OpenBadgeFactory, Credly)

The ideal solution for Node.js appears to be the open source service called Badgr.

Badgr seems to be the largest public player in the Open Badges space and provides a fully featured, free service, with multiple-user management of issuer accounts, and an open API.

By using Badgr for our issuer account management, we also are supporting one of the only open source implementations of an Open Badges server!

To play with the service I set us up a Badger account here: https://badgr.io/issuer/issuers/SEbc17G0S5e3_zrR44oZ_A

If there are no objections to using Badger, or other services we want to evaluate, we can use this account as Node.js' primary issuer service and I'm happy to add other members of the CommComm / Badges Working Group as co-owners 👍

[Tiriel]

It does seem to be a good idea, but I'd say let's first have at least some minimal benchmark of the badge issuing services.
Nothing against Badger, I trust your advice, but I think we should make this as transparent and interactive as possible, and give other team members the choice. Maybe someone knows of another service that could match?

[amiller-gh]

Per the discussion that happened during #16, we have reached consensus as a team and are moving ahead with Badgr 🎉

All members of the Badges team will receive invitations to the Badgr account shortly and reference to the Badgr account is added in PR #20.