Fwd: Re: [Tugindia] Online Certification

[Tripta]

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Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Online Certification
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 05:56:51 +0000
From: Tripta  <tripta@sarai.net>
To: tugindia@tug.org

I think this is the way to go.

For this I think we should prepare a thorough agenda, approach and scehma and
at some levels standarize it and announce it at a national level provinding
links to websites.

We should plan out a course content.

<!--Please have a look at the following link. This is a similar sort of
intiative undertaken by the FSF-china academy.
http://www.rons.net.cn/
In particular, the following section: Hackerdom Training Program Frozen
http://www.rons.net.cn/MNM/training/hackerdom.-->

Once that is drwan out, we should think of conducting one day workshops at
various place and continue the conversations and efforts in this fashion.

In Delhi, there are specific punlishing schools and colleges and i intend to
approach these to begin with and then later look at the small publishing
enterprises.

Cheers
Tripta
TUGIndia-delhi

On Friday 11 Oct 2002 5:05 am, Radhakrishnan CV wrote:
> TUGIndia are contemplating to design and conduct an online
> certification program, which will provide an opportunity to people who
> want to have an authentic certificate to prove their credentials in
> TeX while seeking employment. Many agencies including Government of
> Kerala want TUGIndia to conduct such an examination.
>
> This will further help TUGIndia to mobilize the TeX manpower resources
> at various levels in the country. Quite often prospective employers
> ask us for list of developers and users in the country for appointment
> and we find it very difficult to oblige their request.
>
> TUGIndia server will provide facilities to register, attempt the
> examination online any number of times and see the results
> instaneously. Successful candidates will be awarded certificates and
> will be sent to them by snail mail.
>
> We might have three levels of examination -- a basic user level, an
> intermediate level and a developer level.
>
> Any thoughts?

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