Re: certification

[Stephen Potter <spp@psasolar.psa.pencom.com>]

Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com> whispered:
| good thing. Of course we would not advertise
| *every* position as requiring such a thing... that
| would defeat the whole purpose.

What stops, as one of my examples showed, HR from doing exactly that?
"Well, we use SSH, so we should require the SSH badge."

| A PGP Merit badge is a "vertical" badge. Expect to
| see very few jobs needing them, but the ones that
| do, really do.
| 
| A DNS Merit badge is a "horizontal" badge. Not all
| jobs need it, but many do, and a well rounded
| sysadmin should give serious thought to having
| one.

Let's try this:

If we're going to do anything like this, we need to do the horizontal
badges and let the vertical work themselves out later.  Vertical tends to
become horizontal when the HR and Marketing people get together.

HR: "Oh... The Web is a big thing now adays.  We should require the Web badge."
SA: "But... we don't even *run* a web server."

-spp