[gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[Luca Barbato]

Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify 
people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if 
there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.

Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have 
something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and such)?


lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

RE: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[Sylvain Alain]

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Hi Luca, it could be great since Gentoo can be pretty complicated :P> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:18:04 +0100> From: lu_zero@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications> > Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify > people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if > there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.> > Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have > something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and such)?> > > lu> > -- > > Luca Barbato> Gentoo Council Member> Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC> http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero> > 
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Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:18 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify 
> people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if 
> there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
> 
> Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have 
> something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and such)?
> 
> 
> lu
> 
Is this different from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234705 ?
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)

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Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:49 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:18 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify 
> > people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if 
> > there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
> > 
> > Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have 
> > something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and such)?
> > 
> > 
> > lu
> > 
> Is this different from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234705 ?

Scratch that.  I mis-read the question.  Trustees can certify that
someone is a developer, but we can't certify that someone is able to use
Gentoo.  Sorry for the noise.

Going back into hiding,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
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Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[Marius Mauch]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:18:04 +0100
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify 
> people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered
> if there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
> 
> Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have 
> something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and
> such)?

Without having fixed releases like binary distributions I doubt
such a thing would be very useful. You need a reference to certify
against to be able to validate the results.

Marius

Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[Petteri Räty]

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Luca Barbato wrote:
> Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify
> people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if
> there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
> 
> Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have
> something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and such)?
> 
> 
> lu
> 

Probably the closest thing to some kind of a certification is becoming a
developer. I guess we could think about this as a source of revenue for
the foundation if wanted.

Regards,
Petteri


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Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Certifications

[AllenJB]

Luca Barbato wrote:
> Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify 
> people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if 
> there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
> 
> Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have 
> something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and such)?
> 
> 
> lu
> 

It's not Gentoo-specific, and I have no personal experience, but 
whenever I hear about it (mostly around LUG meets), the LPI 
certifications always seem to be highly regarded.

http://www.lpi.org/


AllenJB

[gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo Certifications

[Steven J Long]

AllenJB wrote:
> Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify
>> people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if
>> there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
>>
>> Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have
>> something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and
>> such)?
>>
> It's not Gentoo-specific, and I have no personal experience, but
> whenever I hear about it (mostly around LUG meets), the LPI
> certifications always seem to be highly regarded.
> 
> http://www.lpi.org/
> 
Agreed; I've never taken them, so don't know their content, but an
equivalent tailored to Gentoo (for stuff like init system and package
management) would be a good place to start. After all, most of Gentoo
administration is working with vanilla configs from upstream. As such,
the knowledge stands one in good stead, since it is readily transferable.

Clearly one would want to update these at least annually for validity,
to the benefit of all concerned.

Does anyone know any of the lpi people? It might be something they'd
be interesting in collaborating on.

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