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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Certification Program
From:       Datschge <datschge () gmx ! de>
Date:       2004-12-11 13:34:56
Message-ID: 200412111434.30383.datschge () gmx ! de
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On Friday 10 December 2004 20:08, Steven Giacomelli wrote:
> Has it ever been considered to create a certified KDE consultant
> program?
> 
> IE a training program is created with examination materials with
> training and examinations caried out by training partners --
> Consultants who pass are certified KDE consultants and can display
> a "KDE Certified Consultant" logo -- and the KDE website has a
> geographic list of consultants.
> 
> You could use this program to generate revenue for KDE as training
> partners would pay royalties for the use of the training program
> and KDE consultants would pay a set fee to renew their
> certification every year.

What's interesting is that in this whole mail there's no single 
mention whether this whole "KDE Certified Consultant" should be 
applied to programmers directly working at KDE (which is what George 
was assuming apparently) or rather people who work one level further 
above, introducing to and teaching about KDE, doing KDE installations 
and adaptions of different sizes.

The former absolutely *does not* need any additional certification as 
that's already sufficiently covered by the available access on commit 
histories of actual contributors. Sites focussed on statistics like 
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/kde?s_catalog=4 are sufficient as 
"certification" regarding a contributors contribution, and the 
quality of those contributions can also be checked right in the KDE 
sources (or more abstract simply by running KDE). To improve the 
incentive to contribute and make following one particular 
contributors contributions easier to track KDE could set up an 
official and extended counterpart of the above site.

The latter (introducing to and teaching about KDE, doing KDE 
installations and adaptions of different sizes) is currently a 
neglected area anyway. Offering certifications here may indeed 
support a more professional 'industry' with the purpose of adapting 
and employing KDE. If done well could do a great job spreading KDE 
beyond the project's current natural borders.

Cheers, Datschge
 
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