I don't think that it is fair to assume that a "mentor" is going to be someone who can substitute for going through the sort of structured classroom-and-quiz training that you're talking about. That work has a place, too.
[And so does community-generated training materials - I would love to see more of that sort of thing: sometimes people on-the-ground and in-the-field see things that might not be obvious in the documentation.] You might get well-fleshed-out ideas about how to debug a particular system or programming problem, or how to work around a workplace social issue from a community mentor; you're much less likely to get an extensive self-study guide to iSCSI from a volunteer. --e On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote: > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:08:56 +0200 > Subject: Re: [advocacy-discuss] Proposal for OpenSolaris Mentoring Program > > Will it become something like an Online-University? > Or a classroom-training? Or both? > I know how expensive such courses normally are, even Sun's "cheap" web > based trainings. Or the JavaTutor CD's. > Who of those able to succeed in that job could afford, or would be > willing, to do that for free? > > It has been a bit of work to self-study everything required to pass the > certification exams, w/o ever having attended one of Sun's classroom > seminars. > > %martin > Among others: SCSA 9, 8 / SCNetA 9, 8 / SCSecA 9 etc. > I need a refresh in misc. areas. > Not sure, if I would ever find the time / resources, to myself contribute to > that proposed program. Currently definitely "no". And I don't see any > improvement, to many dumped TODO lists. And who else does have time nowadays? > >
