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