OpenBadgesUA (Open Badges Ultra) is a project in the context of the subject Computer Systems of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Alicante. OpenBadgesUA is a project developed "inside" of the University of Alicante, but is not an official project approved and supported by the University of Alicante. As Open Badges is the name used by Mozilla and we didn´t want to confuse anybody, we put the suffix UA (Ultra). Why ultra? Other suffixes such as "MX", "X" or "XP" are already well known, so we needed a new one. According to the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, one of the meanings of ultra is 'beyond', 'next to' . OpenBadgesUA goes "beyond" what is offered by other systems and is "next to" Mozilla Open Badges.

Developers

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  Sergio Luján Mora

  Computer scientist and Computer science Ph.D. by the University of Alicante. He develops web applications since 1998 and he teaches how to do it since 2001. He has developed web applications with CGI, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion and other stranger things that he does not event remember. For one year he prefers to use PHP, not because it is the best technology, instead because he does not need anything better.

  Since 2004, he lives by Web Accesibility and he tries to expand its use to the whole world. You can find him writing something on his blog Web Accesibility or publishing a video on his YouTube account. You can also find him on Twitter @sergiolujanmora.

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  Joan Albert Laso

  Computer Science student at the University of Alicante. He had his first computer in 1995, and since then he has been interested in computers. He has developed applications in different platforms and with different languages, such as, C# in .Net, Java, PHP, JavaScript, Scheme, Fortran, C and C++. Although he is interested in different fields of computer science, currently he has put his expectations in web development.

  His hobbies, besides computers, are all kinds of sports, music, and movies. He uses his holidays to travel whenever it is possible, and one of his favorite destinations is his village in Asturias.

  You can find more information about him in his web page JLaso.es. You can also find him on Twitter @joanlaso.