[OSGeo-Edu] Certification of Gary's course

[watry at steam.coaps.fsu.edu]

Good Morning

The first course work goes out on Friday

It will have the logo of the group who wrote the software, Our 
University, Our research center, the GIS certification Institute, and a 
statement that the certification institute accepts this course as 
meeting the educational requirements for certification or 
recertification. All I wanted was permission to use the OSGeo Logo and 
a statement that this was recognized by the OSGeo Foundation.

Maybe, I can add the OSGeo Logo after it goes through all the Hoops.

But the course work is still copyrighted for reuse and modification by 
anyone, just give COAPS-FSU and the program makers their credit.

Quoting Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:

> P Kishor wrote:
>>> One important question, do we (the education committee) have a say in
>>> approving the use of OSGeo logo or is this something that requires the
>>> board's approval?
>
> Folks,
>
> We are working on a logo use policy.  In the meantime, I'd suggest that
> you forward your recommendation to the board for final approval.  If/when
> you have a policy on how to decide these things, and get the board to
> approve that, it should be fine for this committee to make future decisions
> according to the policy without board involvement.
>
>> Well, that is not clear to me. Gary's request bounced to Frank, who
>> put in our court, and we've been batting around with it since then
>> (ok. enough cricket metaphors already).
>>
>>
>> I would think that "legal" (if there were such a thing) would have to
>> have a say in this, or perhaps the certification committee... are
>> their licensing implications wrt the tools being used in the course,
>> for example. This whole licensing thing is a minefield that looks very
>> murky to me. Which is why determining what "putting a logo" symbolizes
>> might be helpful -- recognize vs. certify vs. endorse, etc. etc. I
>> think a logo with the appropriate disclaimer would be perfectly fine
>> by me.
>
> Right, we hope to work this out in more detail.  In the meantime if
> you folks are happy with some level of support for Gary's course, and
> would like to authorize his use of the logo, just forward a motion to
> me to get approved at the next board meeting.
>
>> Gary's course would get an additional button, and the button in
>> question would get additional  eyballs.
>
> I'd add, as news editor this is the sort of thing I'd love to feature
> on the news page.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
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