Re: RFC: a new try for an official community approved certification

Thank you for bringing this topic to discussion, Jaime!

To add to Adrian's questions here are my 5 cents

Postgres is a community that consists of people from different companies with variety of interests:

- Postgres/open source/community-focused interests

- personal interests

- their company's interests

To create a fully "unbiased" certification there is a need for a working group whose interests would be fully aligned. 

I must admit, I'm a bit pessimistic about a unified Postgres certification as it would put people who would be working on it in a difficult situation when they're serving all the abovementioned interests.

Valeria

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:31 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:

On 6/1/23 15:04, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> At PgCon I mentioned a was going to create this thread so here we go:
>

>
> So, having a certification made from a pool of validated
> questions/answers don't only will help companies choosing trainings
> but will in effect improve the quality of trainers.
>
> There are a lot of open questions yet, like where the exams will be
> taken. In the community infrastructure? in the company's?
>
> but I guess we have still enough for start commenting.
1) Who oversees all of the above?

2) How are the questions and answers developed without leaking the
information out to test takers?

3) Does core mean just the community Postgres?

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> Jaime Casanova
> Director de Servicios Profesionales
> SYSTEMGUARDS - Consultores de PostgreSQL
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com