Why COA exam is being retired?
Reading the info in the COA site [0] says the following* "The OpenStack Foundation is winding down the administration of the COA exam".* Is there any reason for retiring the exam? I've tried to find a notice in the mailing list but not found anything at all. [0] https://www.openstack.org/coa/ Regards
That's an interesting question if anyone could elaborate On 21/01/2019 14:24, Eduardo Gonzalez wrote:
Reading the info in the COA site [0] says the following/"The OpenStack Foundation is winding down the administration of the COA exam"./ / / Is there any reason for retiring the exam? I've tried to find a notice in the mailing list but not found anything//at all.
[0] https://www.openstack.org/coa/
Regards/ / --
Alexandros, I got this question from someone else the other day and reached out to the Foundation for answers. The response I got was that they had been providing this to support the community in the past but no longer felt it was necessary as other companies in the community had started their own offerings. So, they were choosing to remove their COA exam given that there were now good alternatives available. Hope this information helps. Thanks! Jay (jungleboyj) On 1/25/2019 2:19 AM, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
That's an interesting question if anyone could elaborate
On 21/01/2019 14:24, Eduardo Gonzalez wrote:
Reading the info in the COA site [0] says the following/"The OpenStack Foundation is winding down the administration of the COA exam"./ / / Is there any reason for retiring the exam? I've tried to find a notice in the mailing list but not found anything//at all.
[0] https://www.openstack.org/coa/
Regards/ / --
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:58 AM Jay Bryant <jungleboyj@gmail.com wrote:
Alexandros,
I got this question from someone else the other day and reached out to the Foundation for answers.
The response I got was that they had been providing this to support the community in the past but no longer felt it was necessary as other companies in the community had started their own offerings. So, they were choosing to remove their COA exam given that there were now good alternatives available.
That's sad. I really appreciated having a non-vendory, ubiased, community-driven option. If a vendor folds or moves on from Openstack, your certification becomes worthless. Presumably, so long as there is Openstack, there will be the foundation at its core. I hope they might reconsider. -Erik
Hope this information helps.
Thanks!
Jay
(jungleboyj) On 1/25/2019 2:19 AM, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
That's an interesting question if anyone could elaborate
On 21/01/2019 14:24, Eduardo Gonzalez wrote:
Reading the info in the COA site [0] says the following* "The OpenStack Foundation is winding down the administration of the COA exam".*
Is there any reason for retiring the exam? I've tried to find a notice in the mailing list but not found anything at all.
[0] https://www.openstack.org/coa/
Regards
--
On 01/25/2019 09:09 AM, Erik McCormick wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:58 AM Jay Bryant <jungleboyj@gmail.com <mailto:jungleboyj@gmail.com> wrote:
Alexandros,
I got this question from someone else the other day and reached out to the Foundation for answers.
The response I got was that they had been providing this to support the community in the past but no longer felt it was necessary as other companies in the community had started their own offerings. So, they were choosing to remove their COA exam given that there were now good alternatives available.
That's sad. I really appreciated having a non-vendory, ubiased, community-driven option.
+10
If a vendor folds or moves on from Openstack, your certification becomes worthless. Presumably, so long as there is Openstack, there will be the foundation at its core. I hope they might reconsider.
+100 -jay
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:09:04AM -0500, Jay Pipes wrote: :On 01/25/2019 09:09 AM, Erik McCormick wrote: :> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:58 AM Jay Bryant <jungleboyj@gmail.com :> That's sad. I really appreciated having a non-vendory, ubiased, :> community-driven option. : :+10 : :> If a vendor folds or moves on from Openstack, your certification :> becomes worthless. Presumably, so long as there is Openstack, there :> will be the foundation at its core. I hope they might reconsider. : :+100 So to clarify is the COA certifiaction going away or is the Foundation just no longer administerign the exam? It would be a shame to loose a standard unbiased certification, but if this is a transition away from directly providing the training and only providing the exam specification that may be reasonable. -Jon
On 1/25/2019 9:27 AM, Jonathan Proulx wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:09:04AM -0500, Jay Pipes wrote: :On 01/25/2019 09:09 AM, Erik McCormick wrote: :> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:58 AM Jay Bryant <jungleboyj@gmail.com
:> That's sad. I really appreciated having a non-vendory, ubiased, :> community-driven option. : :+10 : :> If a vendor folds or moves on from Openstack, your certification :> becomes worthless. Presumably, so long as there is Openstack, there :> will be the foundation at its core. I hope they might reconsider. : :+100
So to clarify is the COA certifiaction going away or is the Foundation just no longer administerign the exam?
It would be a shame to loose a standard unbiased certification, but if this is a transition away from directly providing the training and only providing the exam specification that may be reasonable.
-Jon
When Allison e-mailed me last week they said they were having meetings to figure out how to go forward with the COA. The foundations partners were going to be offering the exam through September and they were working on communicating the status of things to the community. So, probably best to not jump to conclusions and wait for the official word from the community. - Jay
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Alexandros Soumplis
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Eduardo Gonzalez
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Erik McCormick
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Jay Bryant
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Jay Pipes
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Jonathan Proulx