Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Sorry the rant was not clear; I expect the test taker to be proficient at QGIS. I was just taking the time to describe how the test would be different from a normal certification test. The actual testing criteria would need to be set by those offering training courses; or perhaps by the QGIS PM

Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Training and certification

2011-06-13 Thread Bob Basques
All, My thoughts on the Incubation process (which are in the archives over the years) was generally that it was too big a step in many cases for projects to take. I've always wondered about some sort of process that could last much longer and with many more steps in it before being declared

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 6/13/2011 4:41 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to keep OSGeo going. This is also interesting: currently we are using the surplus from courses to partly finance our (mainly QGIS) development. I do not think redirecting these reso

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help Collecting 2010 Annual Reports for the OSGeo Journal

2011-06-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Just to follow up on this Landon: I was going to raise a "issue" for the geotools project to mark annual report down as a task. Do you have any details, or deadlines which I can fill in? Or should I wait for someone to contact me. Jody On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Sunburned Surveyor < sunburne

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for putting up with my rant(s); I gave up on email and assembled this stuff into a blog post: - http://how2map.blogspot.com/2011/06/osgeo-stay-out-of-training-pros-and.html Jody ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Jody Garnett
> > Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to > > keep > > OSGeo going. > This is also interesting: currently we are using the surplus from courses to > partly > finance our (mainly QGIS) development. I do not think redirecting these > resources to > OSGeo would

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Certification only; stay out of training :-)

2011-06-13 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 12/06/2011 16:56, Jody Garnett ha scritto: > Indeed the main benefit of certification here would be as an income draw to > keep > OSGeo going. This is also interesting: currently we are using the surplus from courses to partly finance our (mainly QGIS) development. I do not think redirecting