[Asterisk-Dev] RE: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisktraining andcertification :: AstriconTraining

[Daniel Pocock]

>
> Lastly, a specific question for Daniel Pocock: Your message seems to 
> indicate that you are a contractor. In your win-win-win situation, how 
> would you react if your employer/contractee decided that, although 
> your work for them was/is exceptional, they were only going to award 
> subsequent contracts to a dCAP certified individual or organization?
>

I wouldn't be bothered, because:
a) I try and give enough value to a company that they are getting more 
back than what they are paying me - in such a situation, wouldn't they 
be foolish to cut me off just because I don't have some letters after my 
name?
b) I don't rely on any one single company as my main source of income.  
This minimises the financial risk to me if something bad did happen (eg, 
if a client had a management changeover, or went into liquidation)

Also, in response to comments that this is just a 'get rich quick 
scheme', I would like to say that I fully support the concept in 
principal, even though I may not fully support some of the details of 
this scheme.  Good on you to those who are thinking this stuff up - but 
please try and keep the development community on side.

In practice, a lot of the money spent on training comes from people who 
are employees of big corporates or even better, public servants, who 
have compulsory training budgets that have to be spent.  If some of 
these people can push some of this money into companies that are 
supporting Asterisk, some of it might get spent on more contributions to 
the open source community, improved code, extra open source 
documentation.  Wouldn't it be great to have as much online 
documentation as Cisco, a company that has a very widely known 
certification program.