On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Sm�rgrav wrote:
"George R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:But IMO, this effort for a BSD certification is aimed at sysadmins, not developers.
So what you are saying is that because I'm a professional software developer, not sysadmin, my knowledge and experience with FreeBSD is of no interest to the bsdcert team?
I started to fill out the survey, leaving question 1 blank, but gave up on page 4 or 5.
First of all, the format is very awkward. The checkboxes should really be radio buttons.
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Thanks, DES and others for your comments. They are helpful not only for the survey itself but for the upcoming curriculum process.
I'd just like to clarify a few points.
Yes, we know the checkboxes are awkward. We chose this particular survey front-end because it supported internationalization and it was important to us to have the survey available in multiple languages. We ended up having to hack a lot of code to get some of the features we needed in. It
would have taken much more code hacking to integrate 3 rows of radio buttons per question.
While the cert itself will be aimed at system administrators (see our mission statement at http://www.bsdcertification.org/goals.htm), we are interested in the point of view of anyone who is interested in BSD. It helps us to keep the exam both practical and credible by knowing what is important to administrators, teachers, end-users, developers, managers and students. Which means that every question won't apply to everyone and that there are questions some people won't have any idea about. Which is why we included comment boxes on every page. While the questions themselves will provide us a nice statistical analysis, the comments will prove to be the meat of the survey.
As to changing the questions, it really is too late in the game. As we speak, over 60 people are translating the survey into 20 different languages and a couple of those languages are ready to launch today or tomorrow.
Please, do use the comment boxes to add or clarify questions. We started with a pool of over 800 questions and spent weeks whittling them down to just over 200 to try to keep the survey within a sane time limit. If a question that is important to you doesn't show up, add it in.
Dru
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