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Re: [openstack-community] OpenStack Teacher /Student Certification

 

Hi,

There is a free "certification" program called CloudU that Rackspace is
prompting.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/cloudu/curriculum

This is a free program as far as I know. It has some 10-sih lesson? The
content is about Cloud rather than Openstack, but worth looking at it. Why
don't you send an email Ben Kepes?
http://www.itcertificationmaster.com/free-cloud-training-and-certification/

He started CloudU, maybe he would be interested in getting involved with
your certification program as well. Note that Rackspace does provide OS
certification, but they cost money; you understand where I am going even if
Mr. Ben Kepes finds that interesting. Also, you have to consider what
certification means to people and to your students. If this were just some
workshop I think you can get away with it (but definitely can't use OS
trademark without asking the Foundation, that's pretty obvious). But if you
are charging fee and expecting people to claim to be OS certified (that's
what certification is about) and is used as a document for employment, you
have to make it very clear that your certification is nothing more than
self-evaluation. I don't have a good word for it so let's keep it that way.

You should actually contact local college and see if they are interested in
setting one up with you.

John






On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Frans Thamura <frans@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tim
>
> Glad you do a smiliar work with me.
>
> Yes. Agree. Curriculum is more.important.
>
> My experience. For student handout step by step also a good way to teach.
>
> I will share.my ToC.of openstack content that we develop asap. Because it
> is Indonesian language. It is open content witg creative.license.
>
> I think global work for this work will be awesome to groq commmunity and
> also standard.
>
> Frans
> On Apr 28, 2013 8:19 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Frans,
>>
>> I work in the Higher Education (HE) sector at Cork Institute of
>> Technology (CIT), Ireland (www.cit.ie) and I'm also the organiser of
>> OpenStack Ireland meetups (http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/). At
>> CIT we run various cloud related academic programmes (http://cloud.cit.ie)
>> which are delivered online to a global audience. For sometime now I have
>> been thinking about offering an online course related to OpenStack and
>> would be delighted to hear views from you and others about this suggestion.
>> Your ideas about certification are great but we probably would need to
>> focus on the curriculum first.
>>
>> One idea that I have had is to explore the possibility of setting up and
>> running a free MOOC (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course) similar to
>> https://www.coursera.org/. This would allow us to reach a scalable
>> global audience. Coming from the HE sector I can help with certification
>> and have extensive knowledge of online delivery, that's my day job!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28 Apr 2013, at 12:50, Frans Thamura <frans@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> hi all
>>
>> I am working with Education, take a look www.jeni-academy.org
>>
>> now i am thinking to create OpenSTack + CLoudFoundry certification,
>> that we will give to the teacher in every school (targeting vocational
>> highschool/secondary school and polytechnics).
>>
>> any one can work together for this? because I want to put logo in our
>> certification
>>
>> for OpenStack, where is the place i can ask for this permission?
>>
>> this program usually part of my experience create user group,
>>
>> every school or region of state will become regional academy = state
>> based user group,
>>
>>
>> I love to work together with anyone outside Indonesia, for smiliar
>> work, so we can create one content, one program, and better result.
>>
>>
>> West JAva State only, have 263 schools , and around 12.000 school
>> target all over Indonesia, that will be interesting work, around
>> 500.000 student.
>>
>> right now they focus is "IaaS", and our focus in JAva User Group/JENI is
>> PaaS.
>>
>> Microsoft asks me to put Azure, but they cannot provide the license
>> for education, so I give the rest of the network to OpenStack.. plus
>> CloudFoundry
>>
>>
>> Right now we use Ubuntu..
>>
>> NB: I wish Redhat interest with this, but I email to RH SEA, no
>> program for this yet in our region.
>>
>>
>>
>> We have create a free material to setup, deploy, setup OpenSTack and
>> CloudFoundry, the missing thing is
>> --
>> Frans Thamura (曽志胜)
>> Shadow Master and Lead Investor
>> Meruvian.
>> Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
>>
>> Mobile: +628557888699
>> Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
>>
>> FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian
>> TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian
>> Website: http://www.meruvian.org
>>
>> "We grow because we share the same belief."
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Community mailing list
>> Community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *TIM HORGAN*
>> Head of Online Delivery
>> Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
>> phone: +353 214335120 <callto:+353%2021%204335120> | mobile: +353 87
>> 9439333 <callto:+353%2087%209439333>
>> twitter: @timhorgan <https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan> | skype:
>> timothy.horgan <https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan>
>> linkedin: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/timhorgan | web: http://cloud.cit.ie
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Tom Fifield <fifieldt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi all,
> (apologies to the many lists - I'm not sure if all of you are
> interested, but wanted to keep the original CCs just in case)
>
> I'm also working on content for a masters-level course involving OpenStack.
>
> Since so many are interested, perhaps we should have a meeting to
> discuss aims and potential pooled efforts? (or just start an etherpad?)
>
> It's important to note that there are different levels at which this can
> be pitched. That is, from teaching until being 'able to use' an
> OpenStack cloud, through to being 'able to develop' the middleware - and
> at various degrees within each level. Of course, a lot of content is
> common and any such academic effort should see how it ties in with the
> recent questions about training material. Perhaps the first step is to
> collate our various plans and see where compatibilities are ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 28/04/13 23:34, Frans Thamura wrote:
> > Tim
> >
> > Glad you do a smiliar work with me.
> >
> > Yes. Agree. Curriculum is more.important.
> >
> > My experience. For student handout step by step also a good way to teach.
> >
> > I will share.my ToC.of openstack content that we develop asap. Because
> > it is Indonesian language. It is open content witg creative.license.
> >
> > I think global work for this work will be awesome to groq commmunity and
> > also standard.
> >
> > Frans
> >
> > On Apr 28, 2013 8:19 PM, "Tim Horgan" <tim.horgan@xxxxxx
> > <mailto:tim.horgan@xxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Frans,
> >
> >     I work in the Higher Education (HE) sector at Cork Institute of
> >     Technology (CIT), Ireland (www.cit.ie <http://www.cit.ie>) and I'm
> >     also the organiser of OpenStack Ireland meetups
> >     (http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/). At CIT we run various
> >     cloud related academic programmes (http://cloud.cit.ie) which are
> >     delivered online to a global audience. For sometime now I have been
> >     thinking about offering an online course related to OpenStack and
> >     would be delighted to hear views from you and others about this
> >     suggestion. Your ideas about certification are great but we probably
> >     would need to focus on the curriculum first.
> >
> >     One idea that I have had is to explore the possibility of setting up
> >     and running a free MOOC
> >     (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course) similar to
> >     https://www.coursera.org/. This would allow us to reach a scalable
> >     global audience. Coming from the HE sector I can help with
> >     certification and have extensive knowledge of online delivery,
> >     that's my day job!
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 28 Apr 2013, at 12:50, Frans Thamura <frans@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:frans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >>     hi all
> >>
> >>     I am working with Education, take a look www.jeni-academy.org
> >>     <http://www.jeni-academy.org>
> >>
> >>     now i am thinking to create OpenSTack + CLoudFoundry certification,
> >>     that we will give to the teacher in every school (targeting
> vocational
> >>     highschool/secondary school and polytechnics).
> >>
> >>     any one can work together for this? because I want to put logo in
> our
> >>     certification
> >>
> >>     for OpenStack, where is the place i can ask for this permission?
> >>
> >>     this program usually part of my experience create user group,
> >>
> >>     every school or region of state will become regional academy = state
> >>     based user group,
> >>
> >>
> >>     I love to work together with anyone outside Indonesia, for smiliar
> >>     work, so we can create one content, one program, and better result.
> >>
> >>
> >>     West JAva State only, have 263 schools , and around 12.000 school
> >>     target all over Indonesia, that will be interesting work, around
> >>     500.000 student.
> >>
> >>     right now they focus is "IaaS", and our focus in JAva User
> >>     Group/JENI is PaaS.
> >>
> >>     Microsoft asks me to put Azure, but they cannot provide the license
> >>     for education, so I give the rest of the network to OpenStack.. plus
> >>     CloudFoundry
> >>
> >>
> >>     Right now we use Ubuntu..
> >>
> >>     NB: I wish Redhat interest with this, but I email to RH SEA, no
> >>     program for this yet in our region.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     We have create a free material to setup, deploy, setup OpenSTack and
> >>     CloudFoundry, the missing thing is
> >>     --
> >>     Frans Thamura (曽志胜)
> >>     Shadow Master and Lead Investor
> >>     Meruvian.
> >>     Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
> >>
> >>     Mobile: +628557888699 <tel:%2B628557888699>
> >>     Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
> >>
> >>     FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian
> >>     TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian
> >>     Website: http://www.meruvian.org
> >>
> >>     "We grow because we share the same belief."
> >>
> >>     _______________________________________________
> >>     Community mailing list
> >>     Community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >>     http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
> >
> >
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     *TIM HORGAN*
> >     Head of Online Delivery
> >     Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
> >     phone: +353 214335120 <callto:+353%2021%204335120> | mobile: +353 87
> >     9439333 <callto:+353%2087%209439333>
> >     twitter: @timhorgan
> >     <https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan> | skype: timothy.horgan
> >     <https://twitter.com/#%21/timhorgan>
> >     linkedin: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/timhorgan | web:
> http://cloud.cit.ie
> >     <http://cloud.cit.ie/>
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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