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

Thank you for bringing this topic to discussion, Jaime!

To add to Adrian's questions here are my 5 cents

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.
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.

Valeria

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:31 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> 2) How are the questions and answers developed without leaking the
> information out to test takers?
>
> 3) Does core mean just the community Postgres?
>
> >
> > --
> > Jaime Casanova
> > Director de Servicios Profesionales
> > SYSTEMGUARDS - Consultores de PostgreSQL
> >
> >
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>
>
>
>