This article describes the goals and objectives behind a community effort to build a testing and certification system for "HPC" skills.  As the profession of  Research Facilitation grows there is a clear benefit to having a common testing and certification framework to help define the technical skills needed in the profession. The article motivates the need for this system and encourages further reading in two referenced articles.  Some noticeable aspects of the approach laid out in the article include:
Although a good overview, the lack of details in the article makes it difficult for the reader to know exactly what is intended.  For example, when reading the article I found myself asking these general question:
As this article is an introduction to the project and lacks a lot of details,  leaving the reader with a lot of questions which is both bad and good.    I think part of the goal of the article is to peek the readers interest and provide just enough information to consider going out and learning more.  However,  there also such a lack of details that leaves more questions than answers.  
The following are some suggestions to improve the article: