Re: more on "professionalism"

[Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>]

At 9:53 AM -0500 2001/1/5, Rich Dempsey wrote:

>  If we get a consensus on a really good definition of the BoK of the field,
>  the certification debate will be majorly tamed, if not history.

	Okay, let's assume for the moment that we do have the cart before 
the horse, and we should be focusing more effort on areas other than 
certification.


	Using the guidelines that Strata has discovered about other 
"computing professional" organizations, the indication is that we 
should probably also be spending roughly half of our total 
organizational effort on the matter of ethics and codes of behaviour. 
While a SAGE booklet was produced on this topic, I really haven't 
seen much of anything since, and I'd be very curious to know what we 
may well be missing that we should instead be paying attention to?

	I'd also be curious to know what kind of efforts these other 
organizations placed in various areas during their start-up phase, 
and now that they are established and they can look back and see at 
least some of the things they'd do differently, what do they think 
they'd change, and how much effort do they think that they would 
instead have been better off spending elsewhere, and in what ways?

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