Re: Certification
От | Michael Meskes |
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Тема | Re: Certification |
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Msg-id | 2262347.CgnQkoW7b9@feivel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Certification (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>) |
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Re: Certification
(Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Robert Haas wrote: > I think you're reading something into what I wrote that wasn't really there. Great to hear. As you can see from my question I didn't really believe my interpretation myself. Thanks for clarifying. > How would they develop such a course, except with the help of > PostgreSQL community members? Right, they need somebody who knows PostgreSQL good enough. I'll grant you that. However, that somebody does not necessarily have be involved with the community. > I am not sure that certification has much use apart from such > commercial details. I would not personally be willing to spend time > developing curriculum for a certification unless somebody paid me to > do it. And the only reason that I can imagine somebody paying me to > do it is if it increased the value of a training class which the > person or organization paying that money was also providing. Fair enough. > Now, it could be that I just need a better imagination. However, in > my experience, curriculum development is a lot of work. If it's done > for free, I think it's not likely to be high quality. And if it's > high quality, I think it will be because people with experience in > both PostgreSQL and curriculum development got paid to spend a lot of > time creating it, and then more time updating it each time a new > release comes out. I would be very happy if someone volunteered to do > all of that work on an ongoing basis for no money and then did a great > job. I would be even happier if some company volunteered to fund that > work on an ongoing basis in a way that benefited not only that company > but the whole community. Although I would be happy about those This is exactly what the Linux Foundation seems to be offering, is it not? > outcomes, I do not think that they are likely. We can seek volunteers > for small tasks, but for things that take really large chunks of time > people usually need to be paid. Nobody expects us to do anything but in a sense endorse it. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael.meskes at gmail dot com VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
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