I agree with Sankar - it's a great idea, but I doubt we have the personnel to support it. We really don't have enough people on board with our current workload.
It sounds like you're doing great work, Johann, and there's no reason why you can't do plenty of great stuff in a less formal way. After all, while certification is nice to have, anything that helps with gaining some new skills and knowledge is a good thing. cheers Helen On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Sankar P <psan...@novell.com> wrote: >>>> On 1/10/2011 at 06:36 PM, in message > <4d2b2072020000d300009...@vpn.id2.novell.com>, "Johann Els" <j...@novell.com> > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I was referred to the Marketing list on an idea I had last year December :-) >> >> >> The idea.... >> >> >> I had seven delegates yesterday in a workshop installing and configuring >> openSUSE 11.3, What happed was that the delegates was doing their A+ and N+ >> certification... They told me that they got more information in the workshop >> than in a regular training campus and they want more hands on workshops! >> >> >> So this made me think is there a way we can create some sort of >> University/Campus/Acadamie where School leavers and Graduates can do a >> Certificate "Workshop" in openSUSE and from there they can springboard to a >> CLA/CLP/CLE certification? >> >> These chaps that I trained wanted to work for free just to get experience!!! >> "I would think it is the same in the world" They have "Book IT Knowledge" but >> no practical experience. These workshops I believe will help. >> >> >> What is your view? >> >> > > > There are some Novell Certifications for Linux that are popular. (RHCE is > also very popular). > > However, running a certification system is very very expensive not just in > terms of money but also in terms of people and time. You need marketing, > course registration, exams, etc. With our current strength, I fear this may > not be possible to do as a large scale official project. We could focus more > on things like Evergreen and Tumbleweed which require more helping hands. > > Please note that this is my personal opinion and I don't want to kill a baby > idea. If you want to go ahead with this idea and create an interested set of > people around this, please do it. My best wishes :-) > > Sankar > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
