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Hi all -

As you might imagine, documentation and training can go hand in hand.
I've had to focus on docs, which is fine by me, but would like to see
some collaboration between the open documentation process and training
processes.

For example, just this week I had a professor email me and ask if I
knew of lab exercises. These aren't specifically marked as such or
designed in the documentation, but I'm sure as people made their lab
exercises they borrowed from the Documentation (which licensing
enables). To help out this professor, I sent him a list of links to
the documentation that could serve students in a training lab.

Also consider that the documentation has a translation process in
place now. Learn more at
http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/d23f40c005f8e19becd11389123730f9#.UHg5f1SEP81.

Please do keep me in the loop as you move forward as I'm quite interested.

Thanks,
Anne

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Dave Nielsen <dnielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Boris,
>
> What do I think? I think you sent this email twice!

To be fair, once Boris was "Jr." once he was not. :)

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd like to contribute to developing common OpenStack syllabi.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> --
>> @lloyddewolf
>> http://www.pistoncloud.com/
>>
>>
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