Submitted by lior (not verified) on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 01:29.
Hi Tom,
The way to treat "official" in my opinion is either to wait for an "acquia" or a "lullabot" to come in and to use their weight and momentum sweeping the market and creating a standard because of the critical mass that use that certfication or to take the initiative and create our (as us the drupal community) official certification.
Because of the same concerns we started to promote an idea half ago which we (the community) would try to find the common "golden ciriculum" and that will be used as the base for any drupal certification.
The intial idea started here - http://groups.drupal.org/node/10278 and evolved in to a session in drupalcon szeged with many of the leading drupal companies which do drupal training - http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/drupal-training-and-cer...
We have lost some momentum after szeged (diving back in to work) but I think it would be great if you join the discussion in gdo and help transfer this from an idea to a solid, shared and open (gfdl/cc) base for certification.
One of the great things in the drupal community comes from it's ability not to splinter and to consolidate as a community.
I hope we can do the same thing here.
Hi Tom,
The way to treat "official" in my opinion is either to wait for an "acquia" or a "lullabot" to come in and to use their weight and momentum sweeping the market and creating a standard because of the critical mass that use that certfication or to take the initiative and create our (as us the drupal community) official certification.
Because of the same concerns we started to promote an idea half ago which we (the community) would try to find the common "golden ciriculum" and that will be used as the base for any drupal certification.
The intial idea started here - http://groups.drupal.org/node/10278 and evolved in to a session in drupalcon szeged with many of the leading drupal companies which do drupal training - http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/drupal-training-and-cer...
We have lost some momentum after szeged (diving back in to work) but I think it would be great if you join the discussion in gdo and help transfer this from an idea to a solid, shared and open (gfdl/cc) base for certification.
One of the great things in the drupal community comes from it's ability not to splinter and to consolidate as a community.
I hope we can do the same thing here.