Hi Ian,
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 09:42 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
[...]
While ECDL/ICDL have been around for some time, they are rather old
fashioned in their approach and very expensive for developing countries.
Since Open Source is a fresh approach with its biggest market in
developing countries, a fresh approach to assessment might be a better
option for some people. That was the purpose of setting up the
International Grades in Office Technology (INGOTs) which now has a
presence in 18 countries, although rudimentary in a few cases. We are
getting into the final stages of getting UK government recognition and
as soon as that happens we know from market research that scores of
schools will join the programme. Once that is achieved we will be making
revised copies of the handbook available in English, Spanish, German and
Polish with other languages to follow. In the meantime, all the
materials on the web site are creative commons licensed so anyone can
download and use them. To award official certification you need to be a
trained assessor as that is the method of QA. While INGOTs are not
specific to OpenOffice.org they were developed with OOo in mind and they
also recognise Open Source community contributions and the income from
them supports open source projects.
I suggest you to join the right list for this which is the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] one. For my part I've
resigned from this project.
Kind regards
Sophie
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