Preparation: araujo needs to post progress, an updated certificate and any new requests to the gentoo-council or gentoo-project list 4+ hours before the meeting. Goal: Suggest changes. This should happen on-list. No discussion expected.
araujo: Any word on this?
I have an initial draft at d.g.o/~araujo/gcert1.pdf developed using scribus, among the next changes and decisions to take: 1- To add the developer date. 2- Decide who and how the certificate will be signed (electronically or manually). 3- How this certificate will be generated. For this, a simple script hosted in infra would make it. 4- Some people proposed some kind of digital signature ... not sure if/how much this is worthy. And last but not less important, that the community like the cert design ... I guess I can just go straight and work in point 1 and 3 ... and the rest is up to the council and majority. Regards,
Next steps: - Luis, finish the prototype - Devrel and trustees should figure out how to deal with his open questions 2 and 4 below. One of these two groups should do the signing. Council has no relevance to this request so we're moving off it. Trustees is on it because the question was raised of whether this certification requires some sort of legal status.
At the January 11 2009 trustee meeting http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/minutes/2009/11Jan2009_trustees_meeting_log.txt the trustees determined that the certificate could be printed, signed by a trustee (in ink) and mailed (email and/or snail mail) to a developer on request. However, the draft at d.g.o/~araujo/gcert1.pdf needs to be maintainable the present pdf sample has 2008 on it.
Excellent decision in my opinion. I just uploaded an updated version at d.g.o/~araujo/certificate/ , along with the scribus sources. What have you decided about the way to generate such a document? Regards,
Developers should apply to the Foundation at trustees at gentoo dot org for a signed certificate. Certificates will be signed in ink and scanned or posted to applicants (or both if needed) NeddySeagoon will sign for applicants from Europe Quantumsummers will sign for applications from the USA.
