Hello, Le vendredi 6 février 2015, 17:34:46 Tim Sutton a écrit : > Hi All > > We will be holding a meeting on IRC to discuss QGIS training and > certification on Thursday 12 Feb 2015 and 14h00 GMT in the channel > #qgis-certification. > > If you have ideas about a certification programme for QGIS, please come > along and join us, or submit your ideas but email for discussion in the > meeting!
I will not be there tomorrow, and I just wanted to remind the points raised last June which were important to me. * The Certification Authority should be an independant, non-profit org, either OSGeo, or QGIS association * The certification platform should be under the CA responsibility but its operation be contracted to a private org after an open tender bid. The platform operator should not be allowed to give training. * The exam content should be under the responsibility of the CA, but it could be initially contracted to a private org after an open tender bid [1] * There should be an open process to apply as a "certified trainer", allowing to advertise "certification training" and invigilate exams * Certification should have either a fixed cost, or a cost relative to the GNP/mean salary of the country of origin of the trainee [2] [1] I would rather have an open collective process to build the exams, but could be harder to setup. [2] I would prefer the second option Questions : - do we want "certified trainers" or "certified training companies" ? That's mainly the points on my side, and I would be happy to see all of this take place. Vincent -- Vincent Picavet - Gérant Oslandia www.oslandia.com _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer