[Asterisk-Users] Another Asterisk Certification

[Voip Business]

Guys I think I DONT GET THE POINT ,, or all of us didnt get the point.

there is too much diference between

Certified training and learning course of asterisk.....

and 

Course to be certified in asterisk.....

yes I also know order of factors do not afect the result :)


to the guys of metrotel,, to avoid this kinda topics can you place a
Index or agenda , so all of usundestandwhat you really mean.


regards

HA



On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:17:50 -0500, Alexander Lopez
<alex.lopez at opsys.com> wrote:
> Agreed, You have a strong point about the Monopoly aspect of the whole
> thing. My .02 would be to have this be a Digium product. Heck, Mark DID
> invent the thing and HE holds the copyright to it.  I have faith in Mark
> and what he can do when he gets back from France.
> 
> When I taught Sun and SCO classes (flame throwers down, please) it was
> SCO corporate that provided the Certification, albeit outsourced but it
> was from the same people that put out the OS.  In order to be an
> instructor you needed to have taken the course or have 'tested out' and
> had to have a score above 90 on your exam. (70 was passing). This allows
> the certification program to grow as your instructors know the course
> material and will be able to teach students with real world situations.
> You would purchase the course materials at a 60% discount. For the 40%
> they would handle certs, and testing at Sylvan.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian West
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:48 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Another Asterisk Certification
> 
> > What started out as a good thing for the community has veared it ugly
> > head and will come back to bite us in the ass. I give my respect to
> the
> > two companies that decided to put themselves 'out there' and attempted
> > to bring 'real world' certifications of knowledge in an area that is
> > unregulated, open, and currently has no measurement of how much one
> > person has over another.
> 
> I never said this was a bad idea...  And I'm not against it at all if
> people
> wish to pay for it that's fine.  I don't however feel that Steve and the
> boys should have a monopoly on it.  From what I was told you'll have to
> go
> to Steve and the boys to buy a franchise to become a trainer and pay ...
> and
> you think $3,275 USD was a lot... just think what they would charge to
> become a dCap trainer?!?!?!?  That's one problem with this... ANY
> company
> should be able to signup to become dCap trainers.  The way the whole
> thing
> was presented was what the problem was... things were left out and over
> looked that's what I had the most problem with.   Now to be honest if
> you
> were going to pay the 3k for the course you should walk out with a
> something
> like a Dell 420SC and a T1 card for that price.  I feel that would be
> the
> only way to really make it balance at that price.
> 
> bkw
> 
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