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Dear Suchith,<br>
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thank you for your message and concerns. I'd like to bring in some
clarification.<br>
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<ol>
<li>Basically certification for FOSS should be based on the
community for the community. </li>
<li>Accreditation must be given by an acknowledged organisation
like OSGeo, as you mentioned, and perhaps other communities
(i.e. QGIS association [1]). This should be the "umbrella".</li>
<li>Examinations should be endorsed by acknowledged Universities
(i.e. Geo4All members). Here I am looking for supporters.<br>
</li>
<li>Education is provided by certified trainers (still further
work needed)</li>
<li>Organisational work and management has to be done by an
agency. This could be an opportunity for Tanzeel.</li>
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In my opinion FOSS4G/OSGeo certifications can be beneficial for all
participants:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>for the community</li>
<li>for the further dissemination of open tools, data, and
standards</li>
<li>for the trainees</li>
<li>for the trainers</li>
<li>for the companies looking for employees</li>
<li>for the organising agency</li>
<li>for Universities (offering education).</li>
</ul>
Similar to [1] certification should have either a fixed, moderate
cost, or a cost relative to the GDP/mean salary of the country of
origin of the trainee <br>
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Suchith and colleagues, I'd really appreciate your support and your
ideas.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Franz-Josef<br>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 19.10.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Suchith
Anand:<br>
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<div><font size="3">Thank you for the email and more
information. The idea of <span style="font-family: 'Times
New Roman'; ">open source certification model based on
geospatial technology competency model is good BUT i do
have concerns  on your  aim to </span><span
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this certification under the umberella of  a private
company. Â OSGeo Board should be the one who should be able
to take the decision on certification for OSGeo software
training.</span></font></div>
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size="3">I was not aware of your discussions with Jeff and
others on this that you mention in your mail . I am ccing
this to our education colleagues, so they can give an
informed answer and suggestions to this. I suggest that
you email the OSGeo Board with all details, so that they
will be able to give you suggestions on the best way for
this.</font></span></div>
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color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b>
tanzeel rehman [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tanzeelrehman130@hotmail.com">tanzeelrehman130@hotmail.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 19, 2015 2:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:suchith.anand@nottingham.ac.uk">suchith.anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] STDF Grant for
Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) UK-Egypt
Newton-Mosharafa Program<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Suchith<br>
<br>
Thanks for concerns .yes it is my master thesis and I
develop an open source certification model based on
geospatial technology competency model. I preseneted
this topic in FOSS4g Como pre conference and it was
highly appriciated even some of guys were really
intrested. We had a meeting also for accereditation and
approval for this model and jeff suggested that it
should be project based certifocation. Now a days me in
spokane for gis pro confernece because i want to
commercialise this certification under the umberella of
my new born company spatial junction <br>
And my second supervisor phillip davis  appriciated
alot.<br>
I need support and suggesstions from all of you to
uplift the OSgeo model<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tanzeelrehman130@hotmail.com">tanzeelrehman130@hotmail.com</a><br>
CC: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] STDF Grant for Leaders in
Innovation Fellowships (LIF) UK-Egypt Newton-Mosharafa
Program<br>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:45:14 +0000<br>
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color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Hi Tanzeel,
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<div>Apologies i could not understand the background
discussion on the topic on certification. From
Frans-Josef email some time back i understand this
is something related to your Masters Thesis. Is this
correct? Did you discuss this with the OSGeo Board?
 If it is related to OSGeo certification then you
should get approval from the OSGeo Board first.</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>Suchith</div>
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