> On Monday 12 September 2005 10:16, Bob Martin wrote: > > You'll be given massive amounts of grief for using the word engineer in > > Texas as well. (Unless you have an engineering degree from somewhere) > > > > While the lines have blurred over the years, as system[s] engineer > > covers a much wider scope than just BSD. > > > > Just my humble opinion. > > > > Bob Martin > > > Hi Bob. > > I've already dealt with the engineer issue in a previous email plus offered a > couple of options. > > Actually, I already dealt with 'systems' as well. > > There seems to be Two areas of discussion. > > a) How many certs and the areas covered. > b) The language/terminology of the title. > > How much 'impact' do we have here with these discussions. ie. are the > people actively making the decisions on how this will good actullay > subscribed, or are some comments (probably selective) being fed off to them ?
Hi Martin, Welcome to the list. I also received your contact submission and hopefully can answer everything in this email. The Task Analysis Survey specifically asked the community for suggestions for the cert names for both a less advanced and more advanced exam. You can see those results on pages 108-110 of the Report available for download from the news tab of the website. The Group then went through those suggestions and researched existing trademarks for each acronymn, discarding those already trademarked as well as discarding acronymns that were well used though not trademarked. We then had an initial vote to narrow down the possibilities. We just finished our final vote this past Monday. The Task Analysis Survey also defined two audiences interested in certification and the tasks suited to each of those audiences. The two audiences are defined on p. 9 of the roadmap which is also available for download on the news tab of the website. We are now combing through the tasks to create exam objectives for the "associate" level exam as the document describing that is due to be published on Oct. 4. As we come across things that need clarification, we drop a quick question to the list. If you read the past month's archives, you'll find several such threads. HTH, Dru _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
