On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > > * Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > > > > I suggest (with Dave Cross' blessing), that we
> > > > > form the London.pm certification. NetThink and Iterative will
> > > > > sign up to teach to a given level of skills (or several levels).
> > > > Fuck it. Let's do it.
> >
> > Firstly, mod_perl passim.
> >
> > > Well as a fairly independent person in this matter, i will volunteer
> > > to coordinate this. Unless there are any objections - i already
> >
> > TIMTOWTDI kind of screws things up. Different people will code in
> > different styles. How can you evaluate this?
> >
>
> it doesn't matter how they achieve most things, as long as they can
> do them ... reasonably
>
> > > have a reasonable plan og how to achieve this _quickly_. I can
> >
> > Please share this....
> >
>
> it's too late tonight, i'll try and remember tommorow, the plan is more
> how to get it organised and do all the dull procedural stuff quickly
>
> the actual content is up for debate, although i think levels of
> perl `skillz' would suck, i'd much rather see a ``core'' perl certification,
> and slowly secondary skill certifications being developed and registered,
> however at launch, probably WWW and DBI spring to mind as two
> secondary ones that will be there from the word go - however they will be
> focused quite tightly on their areas
>
> > > of commitment, i think i identified some parties in the previous
> > > email.
> >
> > If I see a sensible plan for certification, this sounds sensible, but
> > consider what most people think of eg. MCSEs.
> >
> > Please enlighten us.
>
> well hopefully when people get in tommorow they will either say yes or
> no, i'll get a plan of action out soon after that
>
Maybe I should start a mailing list for discussion of this stuff tomorrow
- thoughts ?
/J\
