Wednesday 17 September 2014

The weSPOT meeting is over... now back home!

The weSPOT meeting is over! Nice project, nice people and splendid food in a nice city: Graz :)

Six deliverables are in the oven and close to see the light of the real world ;).

KU Leuven is in charge of D3.3: User management and badges system. And I personally like the content.

The deliverable starts with the explanation of the weSPOT OAuth provider. We had a problem in weSPOT. Our log in system relies on OAuth providers... why? Simple... we wanted to simplify the process of users enrolling into our inquiry environment. So users could join our system using their Facebook and Google accounts. However, kids bellow thirteen shouldn't have the accounts... so we needed to provide them another mechanism to sign up in our system.

weSPOT created its own OAuth provider in the cloud. The provider is hosted in Google App Engine.

If you really want to know more about it... just check it out in our site! And if you want to deploy yours... don't hesitate to contact us!

We have also created several badges to engage users in the use of the system. Here you can see a screenshot.
Besides the interface and the rules, we also created a some sort of Open Badges API that provides the basic functionality to create, award and store the badges. If you consider it convenient, you can check the API. The source code is available, just in case you want to deploy your own instance ;).

Almost forgot! We also implement and will offer recommendation services. But this will have to wait... we don't still have them in the production version... be patient! :)

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