[Ica-osgeo-labs] FW: QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015

Sat Feb 14 14:04:07 PST 2015

thanks.

I'm in touch with Elzbieta Godlewska from LPI, we were speaking about
certification programs and about possible collaboration and about their
model. I could provide you a link. We also agreed on, LPI representative
could come to Como to FOSS4G-Europe

J

Fri Feb 13 2015 at 12:11:36 odesílatel Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> napsal:

IRC log link at http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification
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> Feb, 2015
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> Hi, aby log?
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 11:03 Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
> I could not attend this but this might be of interest for those of you who
> are interested in the Training/ Certification ideas.
>
> Lene - as the organisor of QGIS Developer/Educator/User Conference i
> suggest that it will be helpful  if you can coordinate ideas on this.
> Thanks.
>
> Suchith
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> Thrus 12 Feb, 2015
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> Thanks for the link. I would have liked to be involved but couldn't be
> there today.
>
> I know this was discussed briefly before but I'm still unsure of the
> answer. Is the main push to test tool competency or is underlying knowledge
> of spatial problems and processes part of the purpose?  I have materials
> from my GIS intro course I teach for the University of Calgary that is more
> focused on understanding that uses QGIS. I am willing to share these but
> the how to sections are older and would need to be updated (I teach this
> course every 18 months).
>
> I realize that this will be QGIS focused and to provide something similar
> to commercial certification the focus needs to mostly focus on tool
> specific competency. I would however suggest that having a solid coverage
> of basic GIS knowledge would be a step up over commercial certification
> programs where it is not uncommon to see people with credentials on paper
> who understand very little.
>
> If someone can fill me in where we are at that level of specifics I would
> appreciate it.
>
> TSW
>
> On Feb 12, 2015 10:14 AM, "Robert Szczepanek" <robert at szczepanek.pl
> <mailto:robert at szczepanek.pl><mailto:robert at szczepanek.pl<mailto:robe
> rt at szczepanek.pl>>> wrote:
> Log from IRC meeting is available at:
> http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification
>
> regards,
> Robert
>
> W dniu 06.02.2015 o 16:34, Tim Sutton pisze:
> 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
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