[BSDCert] "If you build it, they will come"

[Bill Moran]

Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I can 't say enough about the skill, determination and professionalism 
> of the people here in this list. Especially given an almost total lack 
> of financial resources, both the quality and quantity of work I've seen 
> has been extremely impressive.
> 
> Having said that, I ask sincerely (and I am not one to troll) -- does 
> anyone have any idea whether sufficient demand exists out there for a 
> BSD cert, beyond a collective hunch? Is there enough real interest to 
> even make the minimums that a VUE or Prometric would impose on a new 
> cert? Are there enough people out there who are ready to pay be tested, 
> sufficient to satisfy any business model that's not almost totally 
> dependent on sponsorship?
> 
> Here's what led to these questions... A few weeks ago I put up a 
> personal website based on Drupal, and included there a poll on "what new 
> open source certification is most needed"?
> 
> In the time since, there have been some visits and some people voting. I 
> have not gone out of my way to attract any particular kind of audience. 
> The sample size (19 to date) has not been staggering but the voting has 
> been interesting and varied.

I don't think 19 is a large enough sampling to even consider thinking about
the results.  Based on your rate of response, how long will it take before
you have a few hundred?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com