Interesting and Good On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > This is a super cool idea. > > And certainly not my idea, it has been around for a long time, and used by > other foundations, and suggested several times at the ASF, but people here > seem to have been caught up in the details. The self-hosting open badge > solves a lot of technical and vendor issues. i.e. if we self-host the > static files in version control (which we can easily do), there should be > less concerns about privacy and no concerns about free platform no longer > being free or shutting down etc etc > > > We need to be careful to define clearly what > > "certification" means as "competed course" rather than "we guarantee that > > this person is an expert on Apache Foo" or whatever. > > That is certainly something we need to consider. > > Kind Regards, > Justin
