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Great point Anne, Documentation and training certainly do go hand in hand. Perhaps there is a person(s) sitting on both training and documentation teams?

Cheers
Tristan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Gentle [mailto:anne at openstack.org]
> Sent: Saturday, 13 October 2012 2:44 AM
> To: Dave Nielsen
> Cc: foundation at lists.openstack.org; foundation-board at lists.openstack.org; Boris
> Renski Jr.
> Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] [OpenStack Foundation] OpenStack syllabi -was-
> Re: Use of the word "certified" and protecting brand OpenStack
> 
> 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/d23f40c005f8e19becd11389123730
> f9#.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
> >
> > Dave Nielsen
> > Co-founder: CloudCamp
> > Founder: Silicon Valley Cloud Center
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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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