[Gllug] Pooling talent

[Jim Bailey]

Hi all,

this idea is attractive on a number of levels but will need some very 
careful planning and implementation, I believe something similar was 
recently abandoned in the US.  There is a need for a register of 
reputable, techies, sys admins and gurus, though I am not sure that I 
could ever be described as reputable. ;-)

The eventual goal would be for people employed in a position able to do 
the day to day tasks unless it is for a specialist project, I don't 
think it is a very good idea to have people constantly crossing London 
or using ssh with root access on servers I am administering.  Imagine 
the problems if someone who has been given access to a number of 
machines is cracked, careless or just unlucky not only would one company 
be compromised but businesses and organizations across London.

A solution I am proposing is to use the LPI or Sarn even Red Hat as a 
method of measuring competence the former are vendor non specific, it 
also means that Gllug doesn't have to start awarding its own certs. why 
duplicate a good working system?  Areas of expertise and interest can be 
listed along side the certification without warranty.  As a part of this 
we would also need to look into training opportunities for this 
gathering together as much free training and resources into a single 
place things like linux.org's 101 and the recent primers on SQL 
immediately spring to mind as well as the Gllug talks.  Neither myself 
or my company can really afford to shell out for the  "Professional 
Training" on offer and I am a pretty well paid for my level and in a 
solvent company.

Some people may remember the Jobix project to set up a secure and 
anonymous job site for the community started on this list some months 
ago which is still active, this maybe something that they maybe able to 
help with though they will have to speak for them selves.  it would seem 
to be a suitable side project to the main Jobix task of creating a 
community job site.

Well that is my opinion on the subject I am enthusiastic but also very 
wary please feel free to criticize or build upon anything I have 
said. :-)

Cheers Jim

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