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For more information please visit website or email us at drkoi99@gmail.com
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BSD Certification Group: A Case Study in Open Source Certification
1. BSD Certification Group: A
Case Study in Open Source
Certification
Dru Lavigne
Chair, BSD Certification Group Inc.
MNN, October 9, 2009
2. Outline
Certification 101
Bridging the Open Source / Certification /
Academic Gap
BSD Certification Group (BSDCG)
BSDA (BSD Associate)
BSDP (BSD Professional)
Works in Progress
How You Can Help
3. Certification 101
Popularized in mid-90s by Novell, Microsoft, Cisco
Associated with braindumps, paper MCSEs
Very expensive to launch—domain of large,
established companies with alternate revenue
streams who can afford to wait ~2 yrs before
certification program starts making money
4. Certification 101
Traditional exam delivery costs: $75,000 USD
annually to participate, extra fees for changing
exam
Monopoly on exam delivery (VUE/Prometric) --this
is just starting to change
Exam delivery software is proprietary, currently no
open source solutions exist
5. Certification 101
LPI started out as commercial/community based,
current focus is commercial
Other Certification bodies: Zend for PHP,
EnterpriseDB for PostgreSQL, Canonical for
Ubuntu
Other open source communities (Apache,
Gnome) have expressed interest
Cost, time, and expertise are huge barriers
6. Gap: Open Source
Strengths: if you take away the “code”, what are
you left with?
Built-in mentorship opportunities for learning real-
world skills
Community of like-minded individuals
Networking with others of differing skill-levels from
across the globe in area of interest
7. Gap: Open Source
Weaknesses: provide a good measurement of a
community's maturity level
Focus is on code and developers, while other
community skills and resources are ignored
Processes and culture vary widely between
communities
Documentation is not considered important,
written processes and training materials are
virtually non-existent
8. Gap: Certification
Strengths: provide a good measure of the
quality/goals of a certification program
Assist employers by assessing a published set of
skills
Increase the recognition and use of a software
product
Provide job seekers with an advantage over other
applicants
9. Gap: Certification
Weaknesses: too many to fit on one slide :-)
Cost: to exam taker and certifying organization
Monopoly on exam delivery solutions (all
proprietary)
Rarely available in languages other than English
Difficult to keep exam content secure
Training is often boot-camp style to pass the
exam, not learn real-world skills or understanding
10. Gap: Academia
Strengths:
Time to learn understanding and skills in a larger
context
Institution must follow established guidelines for
student assessment
Institution provides reputation
11. Gap: Academia
Weaknesses: depend on type of program on type
of institution
Knowledge may be more theoretical than practical
Program may not include networking/placements
with potential employers
Institution may not have a global reputation
12. Bridging the Gap
Benefits to Open Source Community:
Increased exposure and reputation
New contributing members with varied skillsets
Reason to document processes and how to use
the software
13. Bridging the Gap
Benefits to Academic Institution: for both
undergraduate and thesis programs
Increased global exposure and reputation
Introduces students to potential employers and
colleagues
Provides students with hard and soft skills in a
non-artificial environment
Opens research and commercialization
opportunities
14. BSDCG
Registered non-profit incorporated in the state of
New Jersey in 2005
Mission is to create and maintain certifications to
assess skills of BSD system administrators
Community based with a legal governance
infrastructure
Relies on open source methodologies and
volunteer contributions of time and money
15. BSDCG
Internal Structure:
5 Board of Directors (voted in for a term)
21 BSDCG members with voting rights (volunteer
to join)
5 Advisory Board members (invited)
9 SMEs (subject matter experts)
1 (paid) psychometrician
Network of trusted exam proctors
16. BSDCG
Community Structure:
~700 subscribers to 2 mailing lists
147 members of 2 Linkedin groups
~90 translators for 22 languages
Donated hardware, bandwidth, system
administration, and web development
Ongoing relationships with other certification
bodies and educational institutions
17. BSDCG
Community Based:
Remains separate from, but supports the other
BSD projects and Foundations
Works closely with employers and sysadmins to
keep exam current and “real”
Advocates the integraton of exam objectives into
existing diploma programs (rather than bootcamp
style learning)
18. BSDCG
Psychometrically Valid:
Ensures exam is fair, unbiased, and
understandable, even if English is not your first
language
SMEs who are working sysadmins keep the exam
practical
Use of ongoing metrics keeps questions current
and spots anomalies
19. BSDCG
Exam goals:
Globally affordable ($75 USD) √
Available in local community, and where
warranted, in local language
Encourage local study groups and creation of
training materials (both open and commercial)
20. BSDA
Process:
Job Task Analysis (JTA): April - July 2005
Exam Requirements published: October 2005
Beta Period: May - August 2007
Angoff Session: January 2008
Available Since: February 2008
21. BSDA
Exam:
Target audience is junior sysadmin with 6 months
experience
Covers 7 knowledge domains
Scored for 100 questions
Passing score is 500 of scale between 200 and
700
22. BSDA
Venue:
Community based: exam events hosted by
conferences, user groups, employers, and
schools
Slowly building a network of trusted testing
centers who promote BSD (FreeBSD Brasil,
Systemics Poland)
23. BSDA
BSDA Candidates:
~1300 BSDCG IDs issued (residing in 104
countries)
121 have taken exam (residing in 16 countries)
78 have passed exam (some not scored yet)
average score: 68%
24. BSDP
Process:
JTA currently open (and waiting your input)
Expected time frame between Exam
Requirements through Beta Period to Angoff
Session is 9-12 months
Exam delivery expected to be virtualized lab-
based environment
25. Works in Progress
Improved Availability:
Building network of trusted testing centers
Working towards an online solution in a proctored
environment (preferably open source)
26. Works in Progress
Study Materials:
Wiki is available for user generated content
Exam objectives translated to more languages
(currently English, Russian, Spanish)
Creation of study labs
Formation of study groups
27. Works in Progress
Sponsorship Suggestions:
Fund to assist proctors' travel expenses
Purchase of DVD helps to fund creation of BSDP
($9,400 in psychometric costs)
Fund to assist exam candidates who can't afford
exam or travel costs to exam
Startup costs for an online test delivery solution
28. How You Can Help
Take the JTA!
Spread the word—tell your school, employer, user
group, write an article, blog, twitter, etc.
Read our publications
Take the exam
Donate time (assist with study materials,
marketing, etc.)
Donate $ (e.g. purchase study DVD)
29. How You Can Help
Host or proctor an exam event
Become an SME
Help us develop an open source exam delivery
solution