Re: certification

[Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>]

I personally think that the idea of Merit Badges
has a lot of Merit, and it is small scale,
clearly not intrusive (that is, you wouldn't deny
SAGE membership because someone didn't have their
DNS badge), different, and distributable
(volunteers could put together self-study courses
and tests for little things, instead of having to
pull together to produce the mother-of-all-certifications).

I'd like to see Merit Badges rather than what I
see as either of the alternatives (nothing, CSSA
(Certified Sage Sys Admin (tm))).

I volunteer (as I have in the past) to do a
PGP merit badge course, and/or an SSH merit badge
course, or perhaps one covering both.

regards,
Greg.

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