[Bf-education] Blender Certification - Pushing Forward

[willem at 3danimationnetwork.com]

Hi Ton.

Thanks for the reply. Yes I see what you mean. We will design the button.

Go well

Willem

On Sun, June 10, 2007 4:33 am, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi Willem,
>
>
> Let's keep things as simple as possible. A do-it-yourself printable
> "certificate" has absolutely no value. Anyone can copy these. The fact
> that you also propose to print on the certificate how to validate it online
> already shows the weak point of printing it in the first place.
>
> Since we only validate people online, and only validate for short
> periods, the only certificate teachers will get is online too. You don't
> print this, you show it to people online. That is something we can
> control, and that is what your clients can trust and validate simply too.
>
> What you can do is design a link-button for the certificate, going to
> the blender.org website. You then can add that to your site.
>
> -Ton-
>
>
>
> On 10 Jun, 2007, at 10:13, willem at 3danimationnetwork.com wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Jason
>>
>>> Regarding a designed certificate... I was pretty sure we'd opted not
>>> to go that direction.  The 'certificate' is having your name listed as
>>> a certified trainer on blender.org.  Besides, if we can avoid the cost
>>>  of printing, signing, and mailing certificates, I think that would be
>>> a good thing.  Granted, it's nice to have that piece of paper in your
>>> hand, but perhaps that's a topic we can re-visit in a year after we get
>>> this off of the ground.
>>
>> Regarding the certificate. Why not on this stage do the certificate as
>> .pdf and just e-mail it to the respective trainers. This way it is easy
>> for you guy's and cheaper for the foundation. There will be a reference
>> number on the certificate that will corospond to the BFCT trainer number
>>  on the web and this way we can verfy that the certifcate is real.
>>
>> For the rest of the points I agree. Let me kno if we can proceed with
>> the disign of the template and also in what format it must be. Also let
>> me know what points must be covered on the certificate and what logo's.
>>
>> Gegards Willem
>>
>>
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