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[Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have this idea in my head that someone's already working on a website 
which displays accomplishments that you've got. This is a cool idea, and 
one I'd love to see. I've also got some ideas about how it might 
actually work, so I thought I'd write them down :)

Jono's already written about the "matrix", the machine which signs 
accomplishments. That machine should run a web server with the 
accomplishments site on it. The beauty of that particular plan is... the 
matrix already has everyone's accomplishments! So, to display 
accomplishments for a particular person, all we need is for the website 
to know their Ubuntu identity, and then we know which accomplishments 
they've got. And, conveniently, letting people know your Ubuntu identity 
is what Ubuntu SSO (login.ubuntu.com) is for. Hooray! So, the site could 
be implemented very cheaply that way. Simply have it allow users to sign 
in with OpenID via login.ubuntu.com, and then present that user with (a) 
a web view of their accomplishments (displayed by looking in the folder 
that they've shared with the matrix), and (b) a tickbox somewhere saying 
"make these public". If they're marked public, then the website makes 
http://thewebsite/(user's Ubuntu identity) available as a URL showing 
their accomplishments... and we're done. Hooray, again!

This is a sort of brain dump and therefore probably doesn't make a great 
deal of sense, but it's really to start a conversation about putting 
Ubuntu Accomplishments on the web in a verifiable way. Sounds like a fun 
project for someone :-)

sil