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Although the repository contents are a really great resource for creating the certificates, and ease and automatize the task (thanks for this @ccraddock), I ignore whether the LaTeX-based system is flexible enough to accommodate other templates.

Not sure if Python could be helpful in combination with the existent LaTeX tools or with a script of its own taking both the names *.csv files and the media (logos, etc.) materials (or directly a PDF with the media materials as the background).

Not sure about the pros/cons of the existing approach and the proposed one.

The proposed one is used in the SW Carpentries:
https://github.com/carpentries/certification/blob/master/bin/certificates.py

Any thoughts @ccraddock ?

This would be a mid- or long-term project, in any case.

The current repository description says

Template for creating attendance certificates for Brainhack 

Given that the contents allow to create name badges as well, could we change the description to something like

Tools for creating name badges and attendance certificates for Brainhack

I think the name of the repository is general enough so as to consider the name badges as "certificates", so I would leave it as it is until a better proposal comes along.

@ccraddock ?