Hi On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Trevor Wiens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that certification is a good idea and that some standard training > materials tied to that make sense. On that effort I have two points. > > First, I would suggest that if there is an effort to have QGIS > certification, then this should be coupled with a discussion a while back > to stable releases where effort is made on bug squashing and not new > features. The reason for this is that certification on commercial platforms > is tied to specific versions and thus companies investing in certification > for their staff will expect the same type of effort. In my mind this seems > naturally tied to an effort to put forward QGIS as a viable alternative to > commercial tools for governments, NGOs and companies. > We have detailed a plan for this during the Essen hackfest - please see https://github.com/timlinux/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/master/QEP-3-QGIS_Long_Term_Releases.rst I hope that we can make 2.8 the first LTR release. > > Second, I use QGIS to teach a Intro GIS course at the University of > Calgary's Continuing Education department. Much of those materials are > targeted toward using QGIS as a means to teach GIS not the particular > features of QGIS. That said if there was an effort to setup standard QGIS > educational materials I would be willing to contribute whatever parts of > those materials that would be useful. > > Yes there are efforts towards this. We already have some resources and we have been in discussions to build on these. Perhaps we can start using the mostly unused QGIS-Edu mailing list to coordinate and collaborate - it would be great to have your inputs (and anyone else interested in this topic). http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-edu/ Regards Tim > TSW > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:31 AM, matteo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> as pointed out in Essen, in a (I hope quick) future there will be the >> change to some people to give official QGIS certificates. >> These people should be authorized by the "core team" and the >> certification money will go to QGIS. >> >> So, for example, I'm authorized and I made a course by myself with my >> company to 10 people. 3 of them are interested to have an official QGIS >> certification, they pay something and that's all, right? >> >> In the Internet I found this website: >> >> https://www.coursera.org/ >> >> it offers courses for free with scheduled homeworks, tutorials, videos, >> data, etc... >> So I can join the class for free, attend the lessons and do all the >> quizzes and assignments. But, if I want a "Coursera" certification that >> proves that I attended successfully the course I have to pay for this >> certification (around 50 bucks). >> >> Do you think that this method can also fit for QGIS? I mean, maybe a >> section in the website (or somewhere else) where you can do a course and >> earn an official certificate? >> >> Suggestions are welcome!! >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Matteo >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > > -- > Trevor Wiens > Apropos Information Systems > aproposinfosystems.com > Calgary, Alberta > Ph. 403-973-5901 > Fax 780-666-4580 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Sutton Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: * Desktop GIS programming services * Geospatial web development * GIS Training * Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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