Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 14:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990724143141.27774V-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <7ncu9r$1aku$1@twwells.com>
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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, T. William Wells wrote: > In article <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADAELMCKAA.gill@topsecret.net>, > James Gill <gill@topsecret.net> 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
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