2026 Badge Summit

Create your app. Credential your learners. Connect your community.
Join us for a hands-on session where participants will build a working app in minutes using LearnCard and a new suite of AI-assisted open-source tools. We'll confront the real economics of "free" tools, the labor of maintenance, and how hyper-local recognition systems can contribute to global infrastructure. Bring laptops. Leave with both a functioning prototype and honest understanding of what sustainable public goods actually require. Open source isn't free, it's freedom.