No formal certifications? CUE the Ubuntu skills testing scheme

Canonical is working on a new training and skills-testing scheme, currently codenamed CUE, to help people without formal certifications to show that they've got what it takes. In a talk titled The Problem of "Street Cred" at this week's Ubuntu Summit in Prague, Adrianna Frick from Canonical's credentials and curriculum team …

[doesnothingwell]

Monetize

Put a fricken employment poll on every article, make it pointless, make them all them same, pester your followers they're just a burden anyway.Where the hell is Dabsey?

[VoiceOfTruth]

A sort of unofficial certification

-> the syllabuses often include lots of irrelevant or obsolete material

Amen.

I like the idea and definitely learned more by practice over the years than any courses or course books have taught me. One thing though: if this is Ubuntu only it is problematic because it is the UNIX wars all over again. Ubuntu is not the same as Redhat. Ubuntu (semi-)certified vs Redhat. Which to choose?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: A sort of unofficial certification

Red hat, SUSE and Ubuntu all have cert programs now

Unix wars...? What the real division is, is all the shitty package managers being developed by children (apparently).

[thejoelr]

Certified snap ttechnician

Yeah, no thanks. It would be a moneymaker if someone like Debian did certs though.

[Anonymous Coward]

Canonical claimed a profit of $175 million in 2021 and Shuttleworth expects to do an IPO in 2023.

Then " .... biggest concern ... is to find the balance between preserving what I think people really love about Ubuntu and Canonical and also continuing to step up to the responsibilities that I think we now have in the global tech market".

Is Shuttleworth going to retain a controlling portion? Otherwise, his concerns might not be important - he might not even be CEO any more.