ideas for next year's workshop certificates

[laurabrenskelle]

This is to help us remember to think about certificates more in advance for next year. @albenson-usgs shared some feedback that past participants thought the certificate needed to look more official. This year, we included workshop dates and a QR code to the Zenodo DOI for the 2024 version of the workshop.

For next year, other improvements to consider:

• Is there any authority or institution that could be added to increase the "heft" of the value of these certificates? Or any digital signatures we could add?

From a technical standpoint, I had issues with the seagrass image in the bottom banner turning into a black box when the certificates were generated using the code (sorry, I am having a hard time finding a link to put here for the code @MathewBiddle?) and saved as a PDF. I also found the font size too large for many participants' full names so I had to make changes to the certificate template in the repository. Unfortunately, I also could not figure out how to properly make an svg file template so the template I used in 2024 for the certificates was made in Google Slides.

Please feel free to add any other possible improvements for the certificates for 2025.

[MathewBiddle]

Here is the certificate code https://github.com/ioos/bio_mobilization_workshop/tree/gh-pages/certificate

Previously, I linked to a branch on my fork, which was merged here last year and I forgot. Sorry for the confusion.