{"id":290,"date":"2011-04-03T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T20:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2011-04-03T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T20:28:22","slug":"my-role-in-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/my-role-in-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"My Role in Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I could raise a bit of controversy by announcing that I\u2019ll be spending a reasonable chunk of my time working on certifications.I teased the twitter-verse with a few hints, wondering if the wolves would pounce on me, but 1) I don\u2019t have that many followers, and 2) since I\u2019m always pissing people off, I don\u2019t think anybody really cared that much.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t talk that much about what I do in my day job on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/lync\">Lync<\/a> team. Among a variety of other things (that I really should get to in future blog posts), I\u2019ve recently committed to some significant certification work.<\/p>\n<p>No \u2013 not tester certifications \u2013 did anyone bite?<\/p>\n<p>I recently accepted the role of chair of the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucif.org\">UCIF<\/a>) working group on testing and certification. Basically, that means I\u2019m going to work on testing tools and ideas (and eventually some sort of certification) for making sure UC software and devices from different vendors play nice with each other. I did some work with self-certification of embedded hardware when I worked on Windows CE, so although the work is a bit outside of my normal realm, at least I have an inkling of what\u2019s in store for me. The rest of the working group members all (I assume) have a lot more experience in UC, but I\u2019m hoping I can rely on my testing experience to help us figure out exactly what needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>If anything significant happens (including me being de-chaired for ineptitude), I\u2019ll post it here. I\u2019ll go back to my normal rants shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I could raise a bit of controversy by announcing that I\u2019ll be spending a reasonable chunk of my time working on certifications.I teased the twitter-verse with a few hints, wondering if the wolves would pounce on me, but 1) I don\u2019t have that many followers, and 2) since I\u2019m always pissing people off,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}