[BSDCert] International Extension and general invasion.

[David Crosswell]

Hello,

As a first post, I thought I would just provide a copy and paste of
something I sent to the Dragonfly list, by way of introduction:

"I have a project in mind.

I recently qualified, here in Australia, as a Cert. IV, Trainer/Assessor.
This is the course featured here, which will give you some idea of what that
involves:

http://www.carson.com.au/course_TAE40110.php

I've been involved with Debian for some years, so not entirely new to the
Open Source area.
I'm running PC-BSD at present, just having a look, although posting this
from a Windows piece of filth in an internet cafe
because I'm moving house and don't have 'net access at present.

What I'm looking at doing is getting up and running with the new BSD
certification programme, as featured recently in BSDMag,
forming that up into a registered training package in a similar format to
those featured here:

http://www.ntis.gov.au/

and training others up on that, while doing server installations into
commercial situations to keep my head above water.
Doing the BSD cert up as a registered training package would do a number of
things, not least in having it accepted as
an established 'qualification' here in conventional 'establishment' eyes,
but also in facilitating a greater exposure of Dragonfly
into a wider training environment and ongoing adoption into areas such as
large corporate and govt. projects.

I thought I'd contact the list to find out if there would be people here
that would be interested in assisting me with getting my
knowledge within the DragonflyBSD environment up and running as quickly as
possible in order to achieve this.
I'd be classified as a bit of a newbie, but I've been round the lists for a
while so I know I don't fit into the luser category.
I don't expect anybody to do it for me."
Regards,

Dave Crosswell.

[Jim B.]

Post by David Crosswell
Hello,
As a first post, I thought I would just provide a copy and paste of

Welcome!

Post by David Crosswell
"I have a project in mind.
I recently qualified, here in Australia, as a Cert. IV, Trainer/Assessor.
This is the course featured here, which will give you some idea of what that
http://www.carson.com.au/course_TAE40110.php
I've been involved with Debian for some years, so not entirely new to the
Open Source area.
I'm running PC-BSD at present, just having a look, although posting this
from a Windows piece of filth in an internet cafe
because I'm moving house and don't have 'net access at present.
What I'm looking at doing is getting up and running with the new BSD
certification programme, as featured recently in BSDMag,
forming that up into a registered training package in a similar format to
http://www.ntis.gov.au/
and training others up on that, while doing server installations into
commercial situations to keep my head above water.

Great project, and sorely needed. We get a number of requests
for training, and do not have the resources right now
to develop a comprehensive program.

Post by David Crosswell
Doing the BSD cert up as a registered training package would do a number of
things, not least in having it accepted as
an established 'qualification' here in conventional 'establishment' eyes,
but also in facilitating a greater exposure of Dragonfly
into a wider training environment and ongoing adoption into areas such as
large corporate and govt. projects.

There are several things to consider. Hit me up off list.

Post by David Crosswell
I thought I'd contact the list to find out if there would be people here
that would be interested in assisting me with getting my
knowledge within the DragonflyBSD environment up and running as quickly as
possible in order to achieve this.
I'd be classified as a bit of a newbie, but I've been round the lists for a
while so I know I don't fit into the luser category.
I don't expect anybody to do it for me."
Regards,
Dave Crosswell.

This weekend is the NYCBSDCon conference so a fair number
of BSDCert people will be busy. If you don't get a lots
of replies, that's probably why. We are definitely interested
though.

Best Regards,
Jim B.