Rails Maturity Model

The problem with RMM is that it sets someone up as the judge and jury. And no one likes to be judged. Also we have seen things like this fail so many times. To get people on board, Obie needs to address the fears that are cropping up:

* How will it be different than getting java certified?
* Customers and employers have been burned those java certs, how will RMM avoid those problems?
* How will you keep shops from labeling themselves Tops in RMM when they haven't yet been judged?

Cisco certification came to mind when I started thinking about certifications that had meaning. It is a very rigorous test that is difficult to pass, and expensive. RMM would have to be all of those things but... Is it really worth it?

The top dogs in our industry are well known because they all speak at conferences or have open sourced their work. It is the "lesser well known but still provide great coders" companies that could be helped by this. But I think there is a much better way. How many contributions has the company made to OpenSource projects?

Provide a way for companies to publish who their developers are and then look in different repositories to see how much that company has contributed. This would be a much better tool to determine the merits of a company.