Mark Schoonover has asked me to take over the LinkedIn Group for MySQL Certified Professionals. We are still working out the details but I would like to ask the almost 200 members of that group and any potentially interested others what they would like to see this professional community become.
Personally, I am going to need a platoon of MySQL Exam beta test guinea pigs and this group looks like a great source for talent people.
But what do the members want?
Cisco gives accounts with CCIEs on staff a percentage discount on support contracts? They also get an escallated queue for any support calls. The logic behind that is that a CCIE would not call on something trival and would have triaged the problem. Is this something for this group?
Or do we need t-shirts? Mugs? A special room (rubber padded, drool absorbant carpet) [Read more...]