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Hi Boris,

What do I think? I think you sent this email twice!

Either way, I think its a good idea. I support it and hope to host some
OpenStack training classes in the Silicon Valley Cloud Center.

Best,
Dave

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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Boris Renski Jr. <b at renski.com> wrote:

> I second Lloyd’s comment. We’ve been running a very popular OpenStack
> Bootcamp program and have delivered 20+ private and public OpenStack
> classes during the last 6 months. We’ve been asked on many occasions about
> OpenStack certification, but have purposely deferred this, stating that it
> is a prerogative of the foundation to accredit a certification program. **
> **
>
> ** **
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> I’d like to propose that we form an OpenStack training / certification
> committee comprised of folks passionate about getting the formal training
> and certification program underway. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Naturally, I volunteer to chair that committee and help spearhead the
> initiative. I suppose Tristan and folks from RackSpace, Piston and Hastexo
> (who already run trainings) would make good committee members as well. We
> can discuss the details during the upcoming board meeting on Monday.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> What does everybody think? ****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* Lloyd Dewolf [mailto:lloydostack at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:58 PM
> *To:* Tristan Goode
> *Cc:* foundation at lists.openstack.org; foundation-board at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [Foundation Board] OpenStack syllabi -was- Re: [OpenStack
> Foundation] Use of the word "certified" and protecting brand OpenStack****
>
> ** **
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan at aptira.com> wrote:
> ****
>
>  ****
>
> Leaving Rackspace’s actions aside, I made a suggestion for a certification
> process for training materials and deliverables that they be offered to a
> community sourced committee for review and approval. If this proposal is
> accepted then I would ask Rackspace that they offer up their course
> materials for this review, and that this might form a baseline for
> establishing the certification benchmark.****
>
> ** **
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> I'm interested in collaborating on OpenStack course work.****
>
> ** **
>
> We've done training for our customers on Piston Enterprise OpenStack, and
> the European participants particularly have wanted certification. I've been
> eager to work on this for many months. I've just waiting for the Foundation
> to get it's legs under it.****
>
> ** **
>
> Near the start of my career I found the lpi.org first course and test
> helped boost my Linux skill set. The experience encouraged me to play a
> small role in the IBM team developing a version of the
> certification testing for IBM DB2 back in the day.****
>
> ** **
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> I'd like to contribute to developing common OpenStack syllabi.****
>
> ** **
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> ** **
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> Thank you,****
>
> --
> @lloyddewolf
> http://www.pistoncloud.com/****
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