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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Dave Cramer <[email protected]>
To: Valeria Kaplan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: RFC: a new try for an official community approved certification
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 07:04:41 -0400
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 05:57, Valeria Kaplan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Agreed
> 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.
>
My pessimism is more around how you keep the answers from becoming public
knowledge. I don't think that should stop us from working on this however.
Dave
>
>
> Valeria
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:31 PM Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
> 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?
>>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jaime Casanova
>> > Director de Servicios Profesionales
>> > SYSTEMGUARDS - Consultores de PostgreSQL
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>>
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