Ubuntu Engineer certification

[Thomas Hood]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:49:55 +0200, Adi Attar wrote:
> Some of us at Ubuntu are currently working on an engineer certification
> programme, a system administration type certification, based on the LPI
> certification.

Please note that the designation 'engineer' is legally protected in some
jurisdictions.  In Canada, for example, no one can call him/herself an
engineer who is not a member of a professional organization.  To become
a member of one of the recognized professional organizations the
candidate must have a university degree and other qualifications.

Microsoft has lost a series of cases on this issue, most recently in
Quebec Superior Court.

   http://www.oiq.qc.ca/whatsnew/afficher-communiques.html?441

The professional organizations say that they intend to protect the title
'engineer' to the full extent of the law.

In any case, system administrators are not engineers in the usual sense
of the term.  They are operators or technicians.  Of course, these days
everyone wants to have a job with a cool job title and since science
and engineering have good reputations, everyone wants to be a Foo
Scientist or a Baz Engineer.

Please try to be less stupid than Microsoft and Novell on this issue.
If you want to certify someone's abilities as a technician then give
them a Ubuntu Technician certificate.  The words 'Professional',
'Craftsman', 'Magician', etc. are all freely available too.

-- 
Thomas Hood