[consulting] Drupal Developer Certification

[Brian Vuyk]

If I understand correctly, there is nothing to stop us from offering a 
different certification.

I like the idea of having an open, community-supported certification 
system. Your 'badge' idea works well with this concept. Let's say 
Merlinofchaos writes a 'views' certification - this can be offered as a 
component or badge as part of the certification.

Make it free to take, but make the individual badges difficult to 
obtain, so that the mark represents a true knowledge of the subject 
matter. Make the badges specific to different versions of modules or 
core. ie:

 * Drupal 6 Core
 * Drupal 7 Core
 * Views 5.x-1.x
 * Views 6.x-2.x

This could even be offered under a name like 'Open Drupal 
Certification', according to the Drupal trademark policy draft. And 
easily implemented under Drupal.

Brian

Bram Moreinis wrote:
> Thanks, Jason.  I saw that right after I posted.  Next time I shall be 
> more diligent!
>
> Still - how about my idea of growing the certification "specialty by 
> specialty" with open-source-style review of "merit badges" (by another 
> name), rather than having Acquia package it as a whole with a big 
> oDesk style test etc?  More culturally appropriate...
>
> I guess that's for Dries to mull over.
>
> -Bram
>