From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 11:38:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A451915195 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA01052; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 14:37:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 14:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "T. William Wells" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification In-Reply-To: <7ncu9r$1aku$1@twwells.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, T. William Wells wrote: > In article , > James Gill wrote: > : -> The best education and certification program that I have ever > : -> seen is taking > : -> the > : -> time to build your own client/server network at home with open-source > : -> software. > : -> You'll learn more that way, and develop some real useable skills. > : -> > : -> Go for it :) > : > : While I agree, how would you recommend I word that on my resume to ensure an > : extra ten or fifteen grand? > > Uh huh. > > All in all, having a certification program for FreeBSD would > enable people with less experience than greed to profit at the > expense of us. However, since people are forever looking for > "money for nothing", there will sooner or later be such a thing. > Let's just hope the FreeBSD project itself is smart enough to not > endorse such a thing. I think the best form of FreeBSD "certification" is a patch/contrib in the system attributed to you. Just point an employer at the cvsweb.cgi to the location of your patch, or maybe a listing on the core/commiters/docs/contributers list. "Ask not what the project can do for you, but what you can do for the project." -or- "Show me the diffs!" -Jordan K Hubbard :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message