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

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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

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Hi, Since you've now added "bus factor" as a criteria, can someone please explain how this is valuable to users of open source projects? All the availabe tools that determine this factor only run on c

We now have complete localizations for French, (Simplified) Chinese, and Japanese. German and Russian are past the halfway mark as well. My sincere thanks to all the translators!! It now makes sense t

Hi, So for silver level, a project MUST have a "roadmap". Does the project also have to actually implement or work on any of the items in the roadmap? If so, to what degree? If not, what's the purpose

All: Nicko van Someren has written a very nice blog post about the recent enhancements to the Best Practice Badge program, in particular the higher silver/gold levels & our new support for internation

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We are basically done internationalizing the BadgeApp. It was a lot of work, but it means that people will be able to (eventually) see all the criteria text – and the rest of the system – in their pre

We’ve implemented the higher criteria in the BadgeApp, and given the higher levels official names. The official name for “passing+1” is “silver”, and “passing+2” is “gold”. That means that our 3 (curr

FYI, the BadgeApp production site now has the beginnings of internationalization & localization. We’ve begun with two locales besides English: French (fr) and Simplified Chinese (zh-CN). It’s still ea

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We’ve made a first step towards internationalizing the BadgeApp application on the “master” git branch. We have a volunteer for zh (Chinese). If anyone else would be willing to help localize, that’d b