On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:58:48PM +0100, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > By the way, does mod_perl have a "board of directors"? If there was a
> > mod_perl consortium backing mod_perl (Merlyn, Lincoln, Doug, Stas
> > etc) formally, I'm sure we could get some pretty serious notice.
>
> Yes, it's called Project Management Committee (pmc) and currently the
> members are Doug, Eric Cholet, Ask and me. This committee is a part of the
> Apache Software Foundation (ASF) group, which has pmc for every project
> hosted under ASF umbrella.
>
So, if we were to look for a mod_perl certification, shouldn't this group
of fine, upstanding people be the ones to design it, and have merlyn administer
it through his site, or maybe this group could form a subcommittee to
do the dirty work (grading, signing certificates, keeping track of certificate
numbers, setting up mailing lists, etc).
I truly believe that what worked for M$ could work for us. M$ proved that the
key to getting any technology accepted, no matter how inferior, was to create
a group of people who could advocate, administer, and sell the technology.
We have a great thing here. If we could get a cert that makes people, perhaps
in stages, submit handlers for all of the applicable Apache response phases, as
well as create content handlers that perform database connections, add neat headers,
footers, and graphics, and create theme handlers, etc, we could certify a
group of dedicated, knowledgeable salesmen, programmers, hackers, etc.
If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable brain power
on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I don't have much spare brain
power and I could use it to try to figure out my wife . . .
JJ
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