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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12-08-09 3:10 PM, David Ascher
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Aug 09 '12 11:09 AM, Roland
MoCoWin7 Tanglao wrote:<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">1. integration with
email: i am pretty sure you can embed the badges in email e.g.
in your signature<br>
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Yes. Badges are PNGs with embedded crypto bits.<br>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> 2. who decides to give
badges: my guess is that it would be the community</font><br>
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That is not an answer =).<br>
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The community should provide input, but I think there has to be a
single role (who is assigned to a person at a time), who actually
maintains the standard that the badge represents. <br>
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I think the central role would be more effective if it were focused
on granting the authority to give badges to people who, in turn,
could grant the same authority to others, thus creating a classical
'web of trust' or in this case a 'web of competency'. This would
scale better and let others who are better at gauging skill in a
certain area make the decision of whether to grant a badge. It also
means there is less disruption when that central person moves on to
other things.<br>
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John<br>
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