This is a great idea.I support the certification...but benchmark has to be created of this so will need a special group to go in first.willl aslo be able to gauge with pilot class how things go.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:09 AM, bhutto aamir <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. What is Fedora? > i am just writing it as a simple user! > (am not giving any technical or any organizational behavior, term/policy > comments) > I don't disagree with any other previous statements which users made on the > above mentioned topic but to me fedora or fedora project is something where a > user and a developer can communicate (about things products packages > releases) a place where people can invoke idea's. There are so many Win* > programs which i love but i never took an initiative to know the people > behind that project, or to complement them,perhaps because they are doing > what they are getting paid to do. Thus i find fedora project as an emotional > bound between user and developer. * There are many other aspects too but most > of them have been *figured-out* in previous discussions. > > 2. Target Audience: > The Fedora Project always strives to lead, not follow.Then our target > audience should be Pre-existing *nix user's, not everyone because there are > so many hurdles in "FOSS" way,(beside a pre-existing user is an easy target > as he/she do knows everything about the O/s and distro's so he should get the > picture quick) > It's very hard to target everyone as our audience because a normal user is > quite comfortable with his/her current/present O/S, this is all because of > strategic alliance marketing efforts. Commercial O/s vendor's have already > made alliances with parallel computer manufactures, And if i am new to > computers and i have just bought a Dell/Sony/Hp/etc* notebook which comes > with pre-installed windows xp or vista with all the latest software's and > gadgets with date back-up/recovery support then what will be the ultimate > reason to encourage me to migrate to fedora ? Adding more to this i got an > excellent career too with MS like by doing some certifications / courses to > enhance not only my computer skills but also get a chance to groom my career > for better opportunities :-))) > > What i think is that fedora should start its certifications/courses to get > people more involved with it, it will serve as a test ground or more like a > medium to prove your skills level, having skill full people around the globe > can easily helps us in migrating organizations from *** to fedora with an > ease and comfort. They should be more confident in taking these steps if only > they would have a hand full of fedora certified developer's administrators. > Many IT institutes running their private projects educating people and > helping them in their preparation for *IT CERTIFICATIONS* thus if fedora > starts its own certification programs then i guess there would be a huge > demand of this, and it will also act as helping ground for fedora. > > Anyways these are just my comments/suggestions. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > We should use Codenames - "Constantine" whats next ?? "Rock" ?? > > > > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
