Debian "certification" Re: Any comment for RHCE?

[paul_cour at verizon.net (paul_cour at verizon.net)]

>I'm always much more impressed by 
>applied knowledge in the form of visible
>contributions to the Free/Open Source software
>community through participation or talks at a LUG, 
>in support channels, and through code.

>Regards,
>Mako

Now that is a strong statement!

paulc


>From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako at debian.org>
>Date: Sat Feb 11 17:33:16 CST 2006
>To: discuss at blu.org
>Subject: Re: Debian "certification" Re: Any comment for RHCE?

><quote who="Bill Ricker" date="Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:59:48AM -0500">
>> On 2/9/06, Matej Cepl <ceplm at seznam.cz> wrote:
>> > Para[l]lel question -- is there any certification for Debian?
>> > And how [...] seriously taken it is?
>> 
>> The Debian community takes "Debian Developer" status very seriously,
>> but it's not a "certificate", it's earned membership in the
>> movement.
>
>If someone has passed the Debian New-Maintainer process, they are
>almost certainly pretty good at maintaining Debian machines and the
>nitty gritty of package maintenance. With that said, a large portion
>of Debian maintainers are not developers and the DD status is *not*
>designed to be viewed or used as a sort of certification.
>
>AFAIK, LPI offers certification in generic GNU/Linux administration at
>several levels. They offer questions both for Red Hat and Debian based
>systems so you could ask for someone that had LPI certification on the
>Debian version of the test.
>
>That said, I certainly don't take any type of certification
>seriously. I'm always much more impressed by applied knowledge in the
>from of visible contributions to the Free/Open Source software
>community through participation or talks at a LUG, in support
>channels, and through code.
>
>Regards,
>Mako
>
>
>-- 
>Benjamin Mako Hill
>mako at debian.org
>http://mako.cc/
>
>
>
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