[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I too have been approached about a Perl certification. Seems I am in a > hotbed of perl gurus out here in the Seattle/Portland area. If a group such
You are probably referring to Tim Maher. I drove up to Seattle while I was at OSCON to speak with him. As far as partnerships go, though, my initial thought was to partner with 'the XYZ foundation' [XYZ = any(perl, apache, ...)] and offer a revenue sharing relationship. LPI provides infrastructure, international exposure and recognition, NOCA [look it up ;)], ... and the XYZ foundation endorses to, encourages and enlists volunteers to help. Plus the foundations benefit from the new revenue stream to help them do the things that they want to do. LPI [and the OSS community] gets a coherent OSS developer cert track instead of what is happening; MySQL rolling their own [even if LPI did help them], Zend [another for-profit] doing a PHP cert. I would much rather see new OSS certs stay out of the hands of for-profit entities and stay in the NGO/NFP realm with open processes and community involvement. Regards, -- g. matthew rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> starnix, thornhill, ontario, ca phone: 905-771-0017 x242 gpg id: EF9AAD20 http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
