@Kenneth Nice effort .. I had tried Microsoft Certification some 3 years ago..it was a bunch of crap..I had not mentioned it even in my resume and all the faith in certification programs was lost.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org>wrote: > On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 1:46:16 pm Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > > oops - forgot to past the announcement: > > hi, > > I am happy to announce that we have at long last launched the Foss Web > Deployment Engineer Certification. 'The first question that will arise is: > 'Kenneth of all people is launching a certification? he must be fit to be > certified'. True. To date I have never looked at a candidate's > certificates > when interviewing him - as I know how easy these things are to crack and > that > mugging up is no guarantee that the person actually *knows* anything. For > the > last three years we have been working to set up a certification that tests > FOSS > ability - rather than memory or exam writing skills. We feel that we have > achieved this. The certification is endorsed by the GOI and Anna > University, so > the paper may be worth something - but I feel the value of the > certification is > that anyone who attempts it - pass or fail - will imbibe some of the spirit > of > FOSS and be more employable (and a better person). > > I wish to thank those members of this and other mailing lists for > contributing > their ideas, time and effort to this. I also request all of you to > contribute > to the forums and answer questions there. Those of you who have companies > that > use FOSS tools or train FOSS people are requested to register their > companies > on the site. And give feedback on the skills you require. There is a > nominal > fee of Rs 100 for registration - that is to keep the viagra salesmen out, > and > also to test out our online payment system - we are one of the first > government > educational institutions to have an online payment system - and probably > the > only certifying authority in the world which has the whole source code of > it's > website online and freely downloadable. And that includes the code for the > online payment itself. > > The site is still in an experimental stage - so please be kind and report > errors and omissions. > > http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Project Officer > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
