Mason Turner <[email protected]> writes: > We should look at what similar organizations are called. What is AARP? What > is the Teamsters Union? What is the AMA? Or the EFF? Of these organizations > (or others), who I LOPSA's role model (I lean towards AMA)?
The Teamsters Union acts in the interests of their members even if it is against the interests of society in general (within limits, of course; I'm not saying that unions are /evil/ or anything; they're just like Lawyers. their job is to protect their members.) The EFF, on the other hand, is focused on a more abstract set of ideals. Which sort of organization do we want to be? My personal vote is for something in between. While I do think that certification, while it's a difficult thing do do well, is something that has value as a signal to employers who have a difficult time evaluating candidates on their own. On the other hand, I think it'd be bad to do anything that would prevent employers who do feel that they can evaluate employees on their own from hiring people who are not certified. I mean, the better business Bureau sounds close to what I'm thinking about in the amount of power it has (which is to say, it's helpful if you want to use it, but it's ignorable if you don't.) and in how it balances the interests of it's members and society at large. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
