<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Phillip Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pdavis@delmar.edu" target="_blank">pdavis@delmar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Paolo, we academics are waiting on OSGeo and or QGIS Project to define the certification and then we can build our curriculum to meet the expectations. This needs to be driven primarily by the developer community because they understand the technology better than anyone in education and should be the leaders of defining the knowledge skills and abilities. That's how we accomplished the Geospatial Technology Competency Model for the US Dept. of Labor. I would be glad to offer our Adobe Connect meeting site to foster collaboration, but this effort cannot and should not be led by academics because the certification would not be respected by industry and why would students aspire to it if not?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Paolo and anyone else interested, lets set up a meeting in the next two weeks to try to get our next steps forward. Has everyone had a chance to try out taotesting? Or is there some other platform others would like us to evaluate as a testing platform? Or perhaps we need to take a different approach to defining the curriculum?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">And hey Arnulf & Jeff nice to see you CC'd in here!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Tim</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Cordially,<br>
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Phillip Davis<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Subject: Re: What about the QGIS Certifications?<br>
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Il 17/11/2014 18:34, Phillip Davis ha scritto:<br>
> This looks interesting. A type of academic certificate that meets universal EU<br>
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Hi all.<br>
Any progress on this?<br>
All the best.<br>
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