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[Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah and then there's the other consideration: not all skills are
technical.

I think the only way we can actually come up with a fair system is to put
together a rubric for each set of skills as a community.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/05/2016 04:41 PM, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Since Linux Padawan is a mentoring/learning system, I think we need a
> > way to grade ourselves on how well we know the skill that we have. The
> > first question is it (the system) really needed? And the second is how
> > should be it done.  As in, use the A - F system, 1 - 5 system, or
> > another one?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for you input on this.
>
> Hi,
>
> If there was some sort of independent system to produce the grade,
> rather than "I think I'm A++ because I wanna seem super awesome" I think
> it would be beneficial to both the learners as well as the teachers to
> challenge themselves to learn more about the skills/languages/etc..
>
> It might be possible to reach out to The Linux Foundation for some
> materials to do this for Linux system/network aspects, and perhaps even
> Bash/shell scripting.
>
> Or we could internally evaluate each others' code if a few of us share
> common programming languages, code does not lie (though it can be
> unclear, which could be an indication in of itself).
>
> Evaluation of general GNU/Linux (server/admin) skills will be harder
> without some sort of standard test, or exercise to give a concrete result.
>
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