Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
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
Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
Hi Tim, I will try to participate too. BTW, here is old wiki page about QGIS certification https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/Certification I think it still contains some important topics to discuss. 2015-02-06 17:34 GMT+02:00 Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com: 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! Regards Tim -- -- 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 ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
Hi all, I will try to be there with you! Matteo Il giorno 11/feb/2015 19.51, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi Tim, I will try to participate too. BTW, here is old wiki page about QGIS certification https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/Certification I think it still contains some important topics to discuss. 2015-02-06 17:34 GMT+02:00 Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com: 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! Regards Tim -- -- 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 ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
Hi Vincent On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Vincent Picavet - ML vincent...@oslandia.com wrote: 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. Ok thanks for these points Vincent. In terms of focus for the meeting, I think we need to follow the QGIS PSC principle of sub/task groups self organizing and try to create a CA group with a mandate to see the CA come to being and focus the meeting more on the formation of a group with allocated responsibilities and less on the the details of how we do it. So my suggestion is that we get say 5 core member to volunteer (and try to include folks from education institutions in the mix since I think their outlook is quite different). And then get regular meetings in place to make sure things progress...say once every two weeks where we can then focus on the details of things that you have described above. Regards Tim Vincent -- Vincent Picavet - Gérant Oslandia www.oslandia.com -- -- 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 ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
Hi Tim, 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! will be there too. cheers! -- G -- ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
Thanks Tim, I'll try to be there. giovanni 2015-02-06 16:34 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com: 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! Regards Tim -- -- 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 ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Giovanni Allegri http://about.me/giovanniallegri Twitter: https://twitter.com/_giohappy_ blog: http://blog.spaziogis.it GEO+ geomatica in Italia http://bit.ly/GEOplus ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
[Qgis-developer] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
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! Regards Tim -- -- 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 ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
