[Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire

Yves Jacolin yjacolin at free.fr
Sun Mar 1 02:58:28 PST 2015


Hello,

OSGeo-fr hosts is own limesurvey application. If you need an account, I think 
we can host it.

Let me know, if you want to do a test.

Y.
Le samedi 28 février 2015, 16:29:40 Carlos Rivas a écrit :
> Dear all,
> Unfortunately JotForm only allowed me to receive 100 replies/month, so I
> look for other options, and I found an option that has unlimited replies,
> by now I can only embedded in a site, I can share the code for embedding in
> Qgis site. For the meantime I have publish a site
> <http://carlosrsuazo.wix.com/qgis>to host the form.
> The replies can be exported to Excel.
> 
> Please try this new option
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Carlos Rivas.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:12 AM, David Forel <davidforel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Folks -
> > 
> > I don't understand what sex has to do with being a QGIS user.  Why not
> > also ask whether people are single or married ?
> > 
> > Regards, David
> > 
> >  ------------------------------
> >  *From:* Carlos Rivas <carlosrsuazo at gmail.com>
> > 
> > *To:* Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>
> > *Cc:* "qgis-community (qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org)" <
> > qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org>
> > *Sent:* Saturday, February 28, 2015 7:58 AM
> > 
> > *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS
> > Certification questionnaire
> > 
> > Hello everyone, I am glad you approved the online form, now I will double
> > check if there are no limits of replies, if so I'll design in another
> > platform. Will come back with this in a few hours,
> > Best Regards
> > Carlos R.
> > 
> > 
> > El 27/02/2015 23:54, "Tim Sutton" <tim at kartoza.com> escribió:
> > 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > 
> > I would be happy to go with the one hosted by Carlos. We should organise
> > with Richard to get it linked to from the QGIS front page and publicise it
> > on all our mailing lists etc. in order to maximise the response levels.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Carlos Rivas <carlosrsuazo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I have designed the questionaire and is not limited to any number of
> > questions and can be found here
> > <http://www.jotform.co/form/50573680504858>, this is linked to a
> > googledoc spreadsheet that anyone can see (or edit if you want me to do
> > that, will need gmails) here
> > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GH-KkF37_bPCbd1M-wmsK_0kA-elRGKzA
> > uJsE57hkeA/edit?usp=sharing> .
> > 
> > I added a couple of suggestions (gender/region of work), please feel free
> > to use or ask me for changes if you want.
> > 
> > I hope this helps,
> > 
> > 
> > Regards from Nicaragua.
> > 
> > *Carlos Rivas S*
> > Especialista SIG, Medioambiente y Turismo
> > www.linkedin.com/in/crivas/es
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Jonathan Moules <
> > 
> > J.Moules at hrwallingford.com> wrote:
> >  (Re-sent as the previous message appears to have been held up with the
> > 
> > list moderators.)
> > 
> > Hi Randy,
> > 
> >   If we want to do it with Google Docs, can you (or someone else) do it? I
> > 
> > don’t have a GDocs account.
> > 
> > It seems that Survey Monkey’s free service has a limit of 100 responses
> > too (not sure if we’ll get that many, but still).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan
> > 
> >  *From:* Randal Hale [mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
> > 
> > <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>]
> > *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2015 1:42 PM
> > *To:* Jonathan Moules
> > *Cc:* 'qgis-community (qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org)'
> > *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS
> > Certification questionnaire
> > 
> > Google docs might allow more "flexibility" in answering. You could set up
> > a form - and allow answering by people who receive the link. Granted it's
> > not as slick as Survey monkey - but it works.
> > 
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > 
> > *From:* Tim Sutton [mailto:tim at kartoza.com <tim at kartoza.com>]
> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:50 PM
> > *To:* Jonathan Moules
> > *Cc:* QGIS Developer Mailing List
> > *Subject:* Re: Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire
> > 
> >  Hi Jonathan
> >  
> >  
> >  PS might be nicer to discuss / cross post this to the QGIS community
> > 
> > list - I have been trying to marshall QGIS certification discussions there
> > and a number of edut folks are subscribed to it I think.
> > 
> >  On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Jonathan Moules <
> > 
> > J.Moules at hrwallingford.com> wrote:
> > Hi Tim (and all),
> > Per the IRC meeting, I've come up with a possible questionnaire that we
> > can spam. Currently it's all text, but it can be converted easily enough.
> > What platform should we stick it on for the question/answers? I can do a
> > free surveymonkey unless someone has something better to suggest.
> > 
> > Suggestions as to questions/answers welcome from all. It is a first draft.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan
> > 
> > 
> > ===============
> > 
> > 
> > The QGIS development community is interested in creating a set of QGIS
> > Certifications. We're interested in feedback from the entire community as
> > to what you'd like/use.
> > 
> > The following is a set of prospective certificates; open to change.
> > 
> >         QGIS User - Can operate QGIS to a functional level.
> >         QGIS Professional - An expert user.
> >         QGIS Developer - (Core or Plugins?)
> >         QGIS Trainer - Can train for and test for certifications.
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > As a GIS professional, would you be interested in getting a QGIS
> > Certification?
> > 
> >         [Yes / No]
> > 
> > If No, why not?
> > 
> >         [Open question]
> > 
> > As a GIS Employer, would you be more interested in candidates who have a
> > QGIS Certification?
> > 
> >         [Yes / No / Not an Employer]
> > 
> > If No, why not?
> > 
> >         [Open question]
> > 
> > Rank these in the order you think they're important in a QGIS
> > Certification?
> > 
> >         [Rank]
> >         Knowledge of GIS Concepts
> >         Familiarity with QGIS
> >         Time using QGIS
> >         Exposure to different areas of QGIS
> >         Community participation
> >         Other [Open answer]
> > 
> > Which of these would interest you:
> >         [Choices for each: Not at all, Mildly, Definitely]
> >         QGIS User - Can operate QGIS to a functional level.
> >         QGIS Professional - An expert user.
> >         QGIS Developer - (Core or Plugins?)
> >         QGIS Trainer - Can train for and test for certifications.
> > 
> > Do you agree/disagree with the proposed certificates? If you disagree,
> > what certificates would you suggest?
> > 
> >         [Open question]
> > 
> > What do you think would be a good way of measuring suitability for a
> > 
> > certificate:
> >         [Rank]
> >         Community participation track record
> >         Exam
> >         Portfolio of work
> >         Professional experience
> >         Academic qualifications
> > 
> > Any comments or feedback?
> > 
> >         [Open question]
> >   
> >   So I think this sounds fine. I noted Trevor's comments below, but I
> > 
> > think it will be fine to go ahead with these Questions and see what kind
> > of
> > feedback we get.
> > 
> >  Thanks for working on this!
> >  
> >  Regards
> >  
> >  Tim ​
> > 
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> > Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:
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