Matthew Brown wrote:
I am, since I occupy a position of responsibility, quite willing to verify my identity to the Foundation/Jimbo in private - but verifying other stuff is frankly not worth my scarce time and effort.
Sure, but consider this... in your position of responsibility, you credentials are basically meaningless and I can't think of any reason why we should care. You got your important role in the community for community skills as proven in practice.
That's a bit different from the case of someone who might want to list their credentials on their user page, and who would not mind those credentials being verified for the good of the project and as a point of personal pride.
I think we can keep the two issues separate: knowing who people are if they are in positions of trust is interesting and important, but quite different in some important ways from the issue of stating credentials.
--Jimbo