The purpose of the Guild is to further professionalize the front-end programming discipline within the Netherlands (and possibly in other Dutch-speaking regions of the world; but I’m not going to do that without some kind of local initiative. I’m busy enough as it is). The most important (or at least most visible) part of this professionalisation will be our certification. We want to issue certificates to good, standards-aware front-end programmers, so that non-specialists can easily see whether a certain person knows what he’s doing. (That means we have to decide what knowledge and skills a good front-ender needs; more on this below.)

Separating out the bozos of web dev is long overdue.

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