Consider issuing (verifiable?) certificates

[stichbury]

Discussed on Slack. How does a company get to offer certificates via LinkedIn for people to register on their profiles/

[astrojuanlu]

For completeness, something like this:

This is the form that appears when I try to add a license or certification:

So, maybe we don't need to do anything with LinkedIn, just decide to issue such certificates.

The simplest thing can be issuing a good-looking PDF with information about the course and signed by the instructors and probably Yetunde. Not much tech infrastructure is needed for this.

If we want to issue a verifiable certificate, we'd need to provide a URL that identifies it. For that, we can use any of the accredited Open Badges platforms, there are many: https://badge.wiki/wiki/Badge_platforms (Hacktoberfest used Holopin last year, but they do not implement the Open Badges standard yet https://blog.holopin.io/posts/holobytes-and-holopals) See this blog post on how to add an Open Badge to LinkedIn https://www.bcdiploma.com/en/blog/tuto-add-openbadges-linkedin-2021-08-30 (I don't think they have to be Blockchain-backed though)

[astrojuanlu]

Another option would be to explore the possibility of issuing it through the LF https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/

[yetudada]

I found two more options:

• https://www.accredible.com/
• https://certifier.me/

[astrojuanlu]

This is not going to be a priority in the short term.