[OpenStack Foundation] [Foundation Board] OpenStack syllabi -was- Re: Use of the word "certified" and protecting brand OpenStack

Tristan Goode tristan at aptira.com
Fri Oct 12 23:33:07 UTC 2012


Boris this is exactly what we need to do and what I was looking towards by suggesting a panel in my first post, and I would be happy to be part of that.
 
Lloyd it's fantastic to hear you are keen to take part.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops from Monday's Board meeting.
 
 
 
From: Boris Renski [mailto:brenski at mirantis.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 13 October 2012 1:57 AM
To: 'Lloyd Dewolf'; 'Tristan Goode'
Cc: foundation at lists.openstack.org; foundation-board at lists.openstack.org
Subject: RE: [Foundation Board] OpenStack syllabi -was- Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Use of the word "certified" and protecting brand OpenStack
 
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,
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@lloyddewolf
http://www.pistoncloud.com/
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