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Fedora Ambassadors Statistics

16 Feb, 2008 1 Comment

Today I’ve spent some hours to write a very “quick and dirty” python script to create some automatic statistics to show how Fedora ambassadors grow up fast.

For the moment script produce a simple command separated value file, useful to be opened with OpenOffice and make some charts.

Here you are a simple chart that shows number of ambassadors during last 10 months.

The script (for the moment) produce a table with months as rows and world area as columns. It takes data from fedora wiki.

Here you are some examples:

Ambassadors Country List

And here you are a chart only for South Europe Area:

Ambassadors Contry List - South Europe

As soon as possible I’ll write some classes to produce chart directly, without need to pass through OpenOffice, and (of course) put all scripts online.

RHCA is one of the most interesting certification I’ve never seen in information technology marketplace. To pass all exams you’ve got to DO what you have to know, not only make a check into multiple choice questions.

It was hard, but I’m happy because yesterday I received the result of my last exam: passed!

Today, I am RHCA!

For the first time I think to have a “valid” certification to show my own skills In Italy it’s pretty unusual. University degrees, certifications and so on are usually not related to practically experiences: you can have a master degree in information technology or computer science without know how using your mouse…

Changing this point of view is hard, but I think it’s not impossible. RHCA is a reality. I hope other companies will follow RedHat way. I think it’s the right way.