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Overview

This project identifies best practices for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and implements a badging system for those best practices. This site contains the source code for the project and allows the community to contribute back to the project. While the software here will let you set up a test badging site, it does not contain all of the back end data required to perform an actual certification.

The "BadgeApp" badging system is a simple web application that lets projects self-certify that they meet the criteria and show a badge. The real goal of this project is to encourage projects to apply best practices, and to help users determine which FLOSS projects do so. We believe that FLOSS projects that implement best practices are more likely to produce better and more secure software. See the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices badge website if you want to try to actually get a badge.

Here are some wiki pages you might want to see:

• Installation
• Impacts
• Publicity