But it is not about qualifications, there aren't any "formal" linux qualifications, only those offered by commercial entities such as RH (which is actual rather meaningless anyway).
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It's not as simple as that. We have to actually get the people who sit on the examboard panel to recognise the need that Linux is growing. I doubt very much creating a course would do any good -- it doesn't actually help them in what they need to know.
Doh! Isn't this a tad contradictory? IMHO the people who sit on exam boards are primarily if not solely interested in creating 'invented by us' academic qualifications. So if it's not about qualifications, then tell me please what is it about? OK, so let's not get into a fruitless circular argument about the meaningfulness of qualifications. Perhaps what we ought to be focusing on is creating genuinely useful Linux courses, irrespective of the 'qualification' that's to be awarded at the end of the course. In fact why not simply award a 'certificate of participation' in the first instance, and then build on this later once such courses are well established and accepted as being genuinely useful. I for one would love to systematically work through a series of well designed Linux courses, principally for the purpose of pulling my knowledge of Linux into a coherent whole and plugging any gaps in my self-learned knowledge. Now where on the web (or elsewhere) can I find such a course? I'd really love to know. Or if such courses don't already exist then where can I find out about assisting in their creation? David Bowles