After reading the certification overview I'm a little puzzled as to where I (and lots of others) exactly fit in. I'm not a master or journeyer because I don't contribute enough time to open source. Yet labeling myself as an apprentice is self degrading as I'm considered a master coder by my peers and colleagues, its just applied to the proprietary day job moreso than the open source world.
So for now I remain an observer.
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