On 3/27/07, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marc, I forwarded your message to pgsql-advocacy list. The same situation in Russia ! I think, that the major problem here is lack of "official" training courses on PostgreSQL and certificates. "Official" mean something that was accepted by the PostgreSQL community. This is a real pity, since we (developers) are working on adding nice features, making porting popular software solutions to PostgreSQL easier, but there are no certified postgresql admins available on market. For example, I and Teodor last year participated in porting of very popular accounting enterprize solution from MS SQL to PostgreSQL and there are about 800,000 installations already, so in principle, we have big market, but people needed to be educated and certified, so company could decide to switch from MS SQL to PostgreSQL. Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write "PostgreSQL Administration handbook", which we (community) will accept, support and translate to different languages. I'm willing to contribute "Full Text Search" chapter, for example. AFAIK, we have enough people, already wrote PostgreSQL books. I like Corry's book, for example. I don't know how much it might costs, but I'm sure community has money for this. As for certificates, I see no real problem. We need to design nice certificate, translate to different languages, publish on www.postgresql and approve a list of people, who can sign certificate. We have many members of our community in different regions/countries, so this is not a problem. btw, probably, this project could be a nice introducing for PostgreSQL EU.
Hi Oleg, I agree with your question. I've just sent a message that question about the official certification from postgresql.org on the advocacy list. I hope that the european group can discuss about this important question and eventually create an european relationship structure (maybe at pgday ;) . Regards Federico
