Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Hi Drew,
I am working on the certification project and I would love to see Base
and Draw more 'in' the role of the certification. However most of the
material for base is still lagging (in OOoAuthors). I know that you
have work on that a bit. Currently the certification stand on the
Getting started document for Base.
However I have seen a lot of content at OOoForums and would love to
get some links on things that can be useful to get the Base
certification off the ground.
Currently I have this syllabus which looks acceptable. But I would
like your opinon on the matter.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Certification/6.0_Base
Hello Alexandro,
One thing, if I may. I appreciate your singling me out, however, there
are lots of folks that have valuable knowledge for this and have
contributed of there time and talent.
Mechtilde jumps immediately to mind as do Marc, Regina, Ariel, Alex and
others. On the forums I would really look for responses from SlideRule,
Squenson, QuazziEvil (soon to publish a book on Base I believe),
Villeroy, JohnV, Wurzel, Kabring ( others whose moniker escapes me at
the moment..sorry ) - some really great stuff from these folks about
Base. ( and that is just the English language forums - there is a lot of
Base knowledge on the French and German forums - the Norwegian forum not
so much...we really need to find a Norsk speaking missionary for the
folks in the land of my ancestors I think :>) Heck, even Frank and Ocke
might have some valuable input...LOL...you never know...they might. Uwe
for sure.
What I will do is put an announcement up on the Community Forum and
OOoForum about the project ( also ask for an announcement on the hu and
fr community forums ). Maybe find some volunteers to help with input.
Data mining the forums database is a really great idea - to be honest it
is not something I could not really look at before July however.
On that issue and in the case of the Community Forums one can (will be
able to) download the entire database for off-line data mining projects.
Terry Ellison has been working on a VM appliance that delivers the
complete environment as a single download. As part of the package we
have expunged all personally identifying information from the database (
email addresses, ip addresses and the like ). This includes the En, Hu
and now Fr forums ( The work of migrating the Fr database from MySQL to
PostgreSQL was finished last weekend actually, and the three forums are
finally on a common platform both front and back) The French forum has a
database that goes back 2 1/2 years as opposed to ~7 months for the
English. We are also hopeful that in the near future the database from
OOoForum.org can be added to this package - but that is in no way
certain at this point. I'm being a just little premature in telling you
of this as Terry uploaded what is hoped to be the final cut of the VM
appliance just last night and is now waiting on me to run it through a
test cycle before making it generally available for download. The plan
is to then publish updates to the database on some regular basis.
Well, I digress. Bottom line - the outline looks pretty good, but I
would hasten to add that there are some wholes in my opinion. Mostly
dealing with general relational database subject matter that IMO would
really be needed. I'll start beating the drum then for some help.
Drew
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