Certification In Cuba - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

> Im not sure that certification has much use apart from such
> commercial details.  I would not personally be willing to spend time
> developing curriculum for a certification unless somebody paid me to
> do it.  And the only reason that I can imagine somebody paying me to
> do it is if it increased the value of a training class which the
> person or organization paying that money was also providing.
>
> Now, it could be that I just need a better imagination.  However, in
> my experience, curriculum development is a lot of work.  If it's done
> for free, I think it's not likely to be high quality.  And if it's
> high quality, I think it will be because people with experience in
> both PostgreSQL and curriculum development got paid to spend a lot of
> time creating it, and then more time updating it each time a new
> release comes out.  I would be very happy if someone volunteered to do
> all of that work on an ongoing basis for no money and then did a great
> job.  I would be even happier if some company volunteered to fund that
> work on an ongoing basis in a way that benefited not only that company
> but the whole community.  Although I would be happy about those
> outcomes, I do not think that they are likely.  We can seek volunteers
> for small tasks, but for things that take really large chunks of time
> people usually need to be paid.

The Cuba proposal

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Abstract— Cuba is betting on business efficiency as a vital weapon to
tackle the current worldwide economic crisis. Today the work on
enterprises or entities is not conceived without the informatics
applications that help in processes, resources, products management and
decisions-making, increasing performance and efficiency; applications that
are supported, generally, by a database. Currently the brakes on growth in
the use of open source databases management for handling them, is the lack
of knowledge by Cuban specialists in handling these types of technologies.
The Cuban university, as being essential to the development of society,
should develop strategies to support the migration to open source software
and with it, the gradual use of technologies that generate no charges for
the use of proprietary technologies and to achieve the country
technological sovereignty. This article presents, in line with this
necessity, the results of the first edition of the diploma in PostgreSQL
databases technologies, tool for the training of specialists in the
correct use of databases technologies and solutions related to this
manager, and the immediate projections to it perfect accord to the country
needed.
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This is ready


Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba