Re: Can we do something now?
Sound good, but how do you intend to certify people around the globe?
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Karl Hammar Aspö Data karl@kalle.csb.ki.se
Lilla Aspö 2340 0173 140 57
S-742 94 Östhammar 070 511 97 84 Professionella Linuxlösningar
Sweden
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:
> About one year ago, Jim Pick came very near to putting together
> what he called "dconsult", an international body of Debian
> consultants. In the end it didn't work, but of course it was a
> great idea. Don't you think we have enought momentum now to do
> that? Is anyone interested?
>
> I'm thinking not only of consulting, but also training. I
> thought of a name like "Debian Professional Consulting and
> Education Collective".
>
> I propose we start with a website; this website would have a
> public portion where it advertises Debian and the Collective,
> explains what the Collective is and how it works, and has a
> database of members with contact information and pricing (the
> availability of pricing info would be a requirement for
> membership, as Jim Pick suggested last year and most people
> agreed - including me).
>
> The private portion of the website would have a knowledge base
> maintained by all members, together with some rules for qa. I
> think, in time, those items from the knowledge base which are
> most used and/or most easily comprehensible by non-techies could
> be distilled into a public version of the knowledge base and
> even into the Debian FAQ.
>
> In this initial stage, it would work mostly for the following
> goals/methods:
>
> 1: a kind of self-appointed certification authority for
> Debian-related consulting and education services - both
> professionals and compaines. We'd have to set very strong and
> understandable rules for this certification, and then make
> these rules available in the public website. Also, would
> certification be equivalent to membership? Or perhaps, only
> certified members would be listed in the contacts database,
> which would give the others a sort of "in experience" status?
>
> 2: a central knowledge base, so that Debian consultants and
> educators can enjoy in their work the same advantages Debian
> offers as a project (a community, peer review, etc)
>
> 3: the development of an "official" Debian learning program, so
> that certified Debian Collective teachers around the world
> teach the basics in more or less the same, interchangeable
> way; the most topics are covered by these programs (probably
> more than one - one "basic" plus many specialized), the
> better for all (including customers)
>
> 4: a central advertising force for members, of course
>
> 5: a piece of good PR for Debian; IMO, if Debian counts wich a
> publicly reachable professional consulting/support/education
> force, one of the major obstacles in its way may be lifted,
> and if this force is powered by the same community spirit
> that powers the Debian project, even better.
>
> Please let me know what you think about it.
>
> []s,
> |alo
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