While it's in very early development stage, Oregon State University is creating an Open Source certificate program that will address some of these issues. The certification as planned will grant Masters degree level course credits and will be offered online. Course content will include LAMP stack development knowledge, basics of the development tool chain (issue tracking, mailing lists, etc.), release practices, and will require a three month hands on 'internship' working with a FOSS project to gain certification. Oregon State University would work to match make between students and FOSS projects looking to on board new contributors as part of this internship requirement.