Peter, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:10:50PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Would a creating a PF certification be worth putting some effort into? > > The reason I'm asking is that the good people over at The BSD > Certification Group (http://www.BSDCertification.org/) are pondering > that very question, and they contacted me about it. My response was > essentially "yes, it would be useful to have a certification, mainly > because it would make PF (and by extension, OpenBSD and the other > BSDs) move visible at the suits level, making a useful certification > would be a lot of work, though". > > A lot of work, and making it into a useful certification depends > critically on Subject Matter Experts (aka SMEs, or please look in the > mirror) and the quality of the work they do when specifying the task > requirements that go into the certification specification.
I came in (part way through the process) as an SME for the BSD certification, and I must say the group tried very hard to make the test meaningful and did a great job. Passing the test is not something trivial, and would show well grounded BSD knowledge. So I believe the test itself is worthwhile. The other part, the MAJOR part, is to get employers to buy into it as meaningful. I don't know how well that part is going. Hopefully it's going well among the companies who are looking for BSD expertise. > So, my fellow PF SMEs, would you like to be involved in this, and > contribute to creating a PF certification. I would like to have your > input, including but not limited to 'would it be more useful with a > multi-level certification', and of course any input on what the task > and skills spec should contain. Due to other recent commitments I can't participate as I did for the BSD cert. I do think that a multi-level or "areas of competency" test would be a nice approach. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
