On Friday, February 20, 2015, jay vyas <jayunit100.apa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi apache. Just had a thought. Not a bad thought, but having earned merit and be invited to be committer on a project is exactly that "certification"in my pow at least. Certification on how to use our projects, is better left to third party or of course the individual projects. just my 2ct. jan i > > > *** Should/Could the ASF have its own project managed develoepr > certification program (for "industry professionals") ? *** > > In apache projects, like hadoop, for example, we see lots of certifications > come up, which are mostly a bunch of multiple choice questions, or a way to > get you to take their class, and so on. > > - After all, we already have people qualified to be mentors, so nobody > would dispute the distinction of such a certification. > > - I see alot of companies doing these certifications for apache projects > (i.e. like hadoop for example, but there are others). The programs seem to > be valuable both to consumers (learn new skills) and to companies (Spread > mindshare) alike. > > *** example *** > On Apache BigTop, I think we could design a great big data certification, > which would help grow the project, increase commitership, and also increase > the back flow of collaboration from companies as well. I think alot of > other projects (for example, even the Apache HTTP server, Derby, CTakes, > and so on). > > > > -- > jay vyas > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
