On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:44:13 -0800 (PST), Steven Rue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "George R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 29, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Lucas wrote: > > > > > Hi, just signed up. > > > > > > In my opinion study materials, courses and the > > like should > > > be completely seperated from the certification. If > > you want > > > to learn from specific books, that's great, if you > > prefer > > > man pages and faqs that's great too. What matters > > is that > > > you have the necassary skills and can show that in > > an exam. > > > > > > Additionally you could offer coarses, give advice > > on study > > > material. > > > > > > Well, my two cents. > > > > > > > (please no top-posting, it makes the threads hard to > > follow) > > > > I think that's true to a large extent. > > > > There's great documentation for the BSDs, between > > the man pages and the > > online FAQs, guides and handbooks. > > > > I don't think a separate book would be necessary, > > though it would be > > useful to provide a study guide of sorts, along with > > a > > reference/bibliography of the standard documentation > > for each project > > and also the useful published books, such as those > > listed earlier. > > > > It would be smart to limit what the we should > > provide, to limit costs > > costs to those applying for the certification. > > > > George > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BSDCert mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert > > > > i see no reason to provide anything more than an > outline of topics for the exam(s). >
I feel outline topics are just not enough, at least in the begining. > It seems everyone > has agreed there is already plenty of good > documentation available. > Yes, in many cases people who have been familiar using OpenBSD and searching for specific implementation docs can find the right place easily but for others it is just frustrating to get the details of certain things because many of the good ones does not show up in search engines and can be got only if someone gives the link on a mailinglist. Some of them take time to appear o the search engines while some others just does not. >If the bsd certification(s) > get big enough, rest assured publishers will release > their own books. > Yes! if it has to be big enough it has to have more people going for it. Just providing an outline of the course and not giving a clue as to where to find authentic study material will cause people to feel taht the whole endeavour is incomplete and turn people away. I am not suggesting that specific books should be written and published but some arrangement should be made so that people getting an outline of topics should also with it get a list of resources where they can find study materials for those topics. Otherwise this whole procedure will look incomplete and many will turn away because of sheer frustration. People who would like to take these certifications would be happy if they dont have to spend a lot of time wading through the search engines to find the fragmented resources for all the topics. Thankyou kind regards Siju _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
