[consulting] Drupal Developer Certification

[Zohar Stolar]

Notice that RHCE is not a Linux certification, but a Red Hat certification.

In the same spirit, Acquia is already working on a certification 
program, that was mentioned here before: code named yellow Jersey.

So this will be an Acquia certification, not a Drupal certification.


And just as Acquia wishes to certify developers, so can other companies.


So your suggestion to hold a central certification is nice, but it won't 
be community controlled.

This said, we tried in the past to collaborate over training programs, 
so the different certifications can have some similarity and common 
ground. This hasn't evolved too much, but it's "in the air", and I hope 
we all get back to it sooner or later (there were training sessions in 
both recent DrupalCons).




Steve J Bayer wrote:

> The idea's great but there needs to be a proper world wide examination 
> network as well. I would suggest something similar (if not the same 
> network) as how Microsoft Certified Professional and Red Hat Certified 
> Engineer tests are taken world wide.
>
> While online ODesk style tests work for one man shops, there is 
> nothing to stop someone else from taking the test. Example, (at the 
> risk of stating the obvious) for a service provider employing a dozen 
> workers, only one of them may have enough Drupal knowledge to pass the 
> test and could easily take the test for the remaining 11 thereby 
> claiming the company has 12 certified providers when in truth they 
> have only one.
>
> SteveJB
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com 
> <mailto:brian at brianvuyk.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     consulting mailing list
>     consulting at drupal.org <mailto:consulting at drupal.org>
>     http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Personal Website:
> http://stevejbayer.com
>
> Time Zone:
> +0530 UTC  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> consulting mailing list
> consulting at drupal.org
> http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting
>