Re: RFC: a new try for an official community approved certification

On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 05:57, Valeria Kaplan <kaplan(dot)valeria(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Thank you for bringing this topic to discussion, Jaime!
>
> To add to Adrian's questions here are my 5 cents
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> Postgres is a community that consists of people from different companies
> with variety of interests:
> - Postgres/open source/community-focused interests
> - personal interests
> - their company's interests
>
> To create a fully "unbiased" certification there is a need for a working
> group whose interests would be fully aligned.
>
Agreed

> I must admit, I'm a bit pessimistic about a unified Postgres certification
> as it would put people who would be working on it in a difficult situation
> when they're serving all the abovementioned interests.
>

My pessimism is more around how you keep the answers from becoming public
knowledge. I don't think that should stop us from working on this however.

Dave

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> Valeria
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> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:31 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> On 6/1/23 15:04, Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > At PgCon I mentioned a was going to create this thread so here we go:
>> >
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>> > So, having a certification made from a pool of validated
>> > questions/answers don't only will help companies choosing trainings
>> > but will in effect improve the quality of trainers.
>> >
>> > There are a lot of open questions yet, like where the exams will be
>> > taken. In the community infrastructure? in the company's?
>> >
>> > but I guess we have still enough for start commenting.
>> 1) Who oversees all of the above?
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>> 2) How are the questions and answers developed without leaking the
>> information out to test takers?
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>> 3) Does core mean just the community Postgres?
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Jaime Casanova
>> > Director de Servicios Profesionales
>> > SYSTEMGUARDS - Consultores de PostgreSQL
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
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