Talk:Schoolforge-UK SysAdmin Qualifications
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SysAdmin qualification
Looking at the sysadmin bit, why does it have to be just thin-client....feel a bit left out now :(
Jo Harris 18 Apr 2005
- Maybe we'll call them "modules" instead of "levels". I reckon networking is far and away the biggest area to cover, maybe that needs to be broken down into separate modules too.
John Ingleby 18 Apr 2005
- I sort of agree with Jo, although it's worth covering things in a course even if you don't deal with them every day at work. I know from my experience of studying for the LPI qualifications that I've picked up a few useful tips in areas that I don't regularly have to deal with. Personally, I don't have any thin client systems here, but would be interested in learning about them for the future - be it here or in another job. Especially if you get a qualification out of it as well.
- Actually, the LPI model of modules with different weightings would be a reasonable way to shape this new qualification. At least, until we refine it to some other shape.
- I've made a small addition to the software section - adding multimedia apps. I was thinking Audacity, Kino, Rosegarden etc.
- I was wondering about adding an advocacy section - how to present FLOSS projects to your school management, how to fairly balance FLOSS against propriatory software etc. etc. Perhaps it would be a low-weighted module, but useful.
- I was wondering about adding an advocacy section - how to present FLOSS projects to your school management, how to fairly balance FLOSS against propriatory software etc. etc. Perhaps it would be a low-weighted module, but useful.
Tony Whitmore 18 Apr 22005
LPI modules
I wonder how the LPI modules stack up against the range of knowledge and skills needed in a school? Could we adopt/adapt them?
John Ingleby 18 Apr 2005
- Well, I've taken LPI101 and am (sometimes) studying for LPI102. TBH, it's general sysadmin stuff - kernels, filesystem, basic network services, X. Printing is LPRng-based - barely looks at CUPS. There may be some parts that are transferable, but I was more referring to the way the scheme is structured.
- Having said that, we could encorporate LPI into the SchoolForge sysadmin qualification. So either holiding an LPI Level 1 Cert would automatically count as a qualification for some SchoolForge modules, and leave the candidate to take the remaining modules, or we could make use of the existing scheme and say that SchoolForge's qualification is essentially LPI Level 1 + these additional modules specifcially related to school activities.
Tony Whitmore 18 Apr 22005
- Just to let you know that I have good contacts with the LPI people if it helps. I was talking to Evan Lieberovich on Wednesday and we have some possibilities of cooperating over eg development of the Platinum INGOT and general marketing.
- It would be good to get the LPI exams as an element of the SST sponsorship but I'm not sure how LPI would view that.
- It would be good to get the LPI exams as an element of the SST sponsorship but I'm not sure how LPI would view that.
Ian Lynch 5:14, 19 Apr 2005
Practice-based qualifications?
I wonder if the qualifications could be practiced-based? For example, to qualify in X, I would submit documentation (or URLs) describing:
- The problem to be solved
- What alternative approaches I studied
- Why I chose the selected approach
- How it was implemented
- How it will be supported in future
- Certificate and commendation signed by school authority
Not only would this provide excellent documentation for the school, it would also provide Schoolforge-UK very comprehensive HOW-TOs, which could in turn be adapted and updated by the experience of applicants. All we would need is an authoritative group of examiners to judge the qualifications.
JohnIngleby
