This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2018-01. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

I just posted a very short & simple video titled “Quick demo on how to start getting a CII Best Practices badge” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhLYLpsvvc0 There’s nothing fancy here – I didn’t even

The best practices production site now has a new form for those who ask to delete projects (when they have the permissions necessary to do so). The system now requires that there be some text that exp

FYI, Mike Samuel let me know that he said nice things about the best practices badge project in his article "A Roadmap for Node.js Security". It is part of a larger discussion about how to aggregate i

FYI, I thought I’d share some of the things that are going on in the CII best practices badge project. I think it’s especially important because much of this may be otherwise invisible to you. Details

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2017-12. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

The league/commonmark project (which implements a Markdown processor) has received a silver badge!! More details here: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/126 As always, if there’s a

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2017-11. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

All: We want to slowly & carefully update the criteria as community norms improve. However, I don't see any need to update the criteria at this time. The passing criteria in particular appear to be "j

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2017-10. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

All: We’ve just learned that someone had created a project badge entry on a *test* tier (master), with the intent of using that as the main information source. Since that’s not what the test tiers are

FYI, there have been a few changes to the CII Best Practices badge site: 1. We now have new “sharing” links at the bottom of the front page <https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/> for Twitter,

FYI: If you are creating proposed changes to the CII Best Practices Badge code, I’ve recently updated the Ruby implementation (as well as all the gems I can). So if you’ve had the badge application ru

All: I’d just like to publicly congratulate Daniel Stenberg for winning the Polhem Prize for his work on curl! The Polhem Prize is awarded “for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious so

At the Linux Security Summit 2017 I gave a presentation titled “CII Best Practices Badge, 1.5 years later”. It’s basically a status report about the CII Best Practices badging project. A few highlight

FYI: Dan Kohn was instrumental in getting the CII Best Practices Badge project up-and-running. Dan is now the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2017-09. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

All – there is continuous steady growth in badging project participation. We have over 1000 participating projects, and over 100 badges. I’m not sure why 10% of the participating projects at any one t

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2017-08. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s

This is an automated monthly status report of the best practices badge application covering the month 2017-07. Here are some selected statistics for most recent completed month, preceded by the same s