@lanodan @trevorflowers @csolisr That has a number of flaws, but most particularly an insistence on papers.

A lot of Free Software programmers do *not* have the academic certifications and so on paper do not have the "professional competency" they actually have. In some cases, due to a variety of issues unrelated to monetary cost, they *cannot* acquire said certification either.

It is also an issue for Libre work on politically inconvenient technologies (though it is equally an issue with pseudonymous authorship of some investigative stuff), such that alternative acknowledgements of specialization/competence might also pose a risk by flagging one as a target for feds.