Every certificate, card, badge and page here is drawn by the same code that draws the real
ones, for a made-up contributor, company and projects. Each says inside the drawing that it is
a sample, and none of them is valid anywhere.
A sample has no signature, no entry in the transparency log and no published record. Its code
opens a page that says it comes from a sample; a real
certificate's code opens its own page on /verify, the only place a
certificate is checked.
What a contributor receives
The made-up contributor is Anouk Samplewood, @psn-sample-anouk, credited
by 3 made-up projects. When a registered project credits a real contributor, the
certificate names that contributor's own login and projects, if they choose to show them.
We do not show a sample contributor certificate here yet, because its final wording is
not published. Its badges have no wording of their own, so you can see them now.
Sample: the certificate's badges, for a README or a profile. A badge names nobody; on a real
certificate it links to the certificate's own page on /verify.
Contributor certificates are not issued here yet.
Sample: a contributor page's card and its badge. The page gathers a contributor's
certificates, projects and adoptions in one place.
Contributor pages are not published here yet.
The made-up company is Vellumbrook Data GmbH. When it pays the
Purpose Fee for a project, it receives a payment certificate; if it chooses to be listed, the
certificate has a share card that names it.
Sample: the share card of a listed company's payment certificate.
Payment certificates are issued once checkout opens at launch.
The made-up project is psn-sample/atlas. A registered repository has a badge for its
README and a project card for sharing. They state its registration, never who contributed.
Sample: the project card.
Project cards are not served here yet.
Sample: the repository's badges.
A registered repository has these badges here.
It opens a page of ours that says the code comes from a sample, and
nothing else: no verdict, no fingerprint, no record. A real certificate's code opens its page on
/verify, where its signature is checked in your browser.
The GitHub names a sample shows (psn-sample, psn-sample-lab, psn-sample-anouk) are
held by us as empty GitHub organisations, so none of them can belong to someone else. The
contributor's and the company's names are made up. When they were chosen, the company's name was
checked against company and trade-mark registers, and the contributor's against trade-mark
registers and the web.
