Etienne Goyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> First, who get to decide what level of certification/credential qualify
> a candidate for "Professional" level ? If this organization is done
> under the auspice of LPI, we will certainly be accused of favoritism.
> Not that it is a show-stopper, but this need to be thought out.
It could just be a third party with no allegiance to any certifiers (but then
who would help fund it unless it was purely membership fee based?). I also
floated the idea of a percentage of exam fees going to fund this association.
It wasn't immediately shot down :)
This is something similar to what the professional engineering associations
in Canada do. A portion of the professional dues went (go?) to a Engineering
Society that is responsible for the PR and promotion of engineeringin
general.
At least, I think that I have it right. I know some of the dues were going
somewhere for a while :)
> Second, where are we going to position this association ? Between the
> Linux Foundation internationally and local organization such as CLUE
> here in Canada, how much room is there left for an OSS Professional
> organization ? We will be competing with many other organization for
> mindshare and volunteer resources, so we need to come up a very enticing
> mission and focus to get any.
My thought on this is that there could be a global organization but the 'on
the ground' work would be done by regional groups. CLUE (www.cluecan.ca or
linux.ca) would be an ideal organization for Canadian work. The reason for
the regionality is that I'd like one of the mandates of these groups to be
to push for some form of formal recognition by the gov't of our jobs as a
recognized profession.
CIPS (another Canadian example) is doing just this at the provincial and
federal level. From their website:
http://www.cipsontario.ca
The I.S.P. (Information Systems Professional) is the professional
designation for Information Technology professionals in Canada. The
I.S.P. designation is your assurance of the highest standards of quality,
knowledge, and ethics.
The I.S.P., introduced in 1989, is an internationally recognized
designation and has been registered as a professional designation in the
following order: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick and,
in 2002, Nova Scotia.
Hmm, maybe CIPS could help or do the job in Canada...
TTYL,
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