<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi All</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Carlos Rivas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carlosrsuazo@gmail.com" target="_blank">carlosrsuazo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br><div>I have designed the questionaire and is not limited to any number of questions and can be found <a href="http://www.jotform.co/form/50573680504858" target="_blank">here</a>, this is linked to a googledoc spreadsheet that anyone can see (or edit if you want me to do that, will need gmails) <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GH-KkF37_bPCbd1M-wmsK_0kA-elRGKzAuJsE57hkeA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>I added a couple of suggestions (gender/region of work), please feel free to use or ask me for changes if you want. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards from Nicaragua.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Carlos Rivas S</b></div></div><div>Especialista SIG, Medioambiente y Turismo</div><div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/crivas/es" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/crivas/es</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Jonathan Moules <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.Moules@hrwallingford.com" target="_blank">J.Moules@hrwallingford.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> If we want to do it with Google Docs, can you (or someone else) do it? I don’t have a GDocs account.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.
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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
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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.<br>
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QGIS User - Can operate QGIS to a functional level.<br>
QGIS Professional - An expert user.<br>
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QGIS Trainer - Can train for and test for certifications.<br>
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As a GIS professional, would you be interested in getting a QGIS Certification?<br>
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Rank these in the order you think they're important in a QGIS Certification?<br>
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Knowledge of GIS Concepts<br>
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Time using QGIS<br>
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Community participation<br>
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Which of these would interest you:<br>
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QGIS User - Can operate QGIS to a functional level.<br>
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What do you think would be a good way of measuring suitability for a certificate:<br>
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Community participation track record<br>
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Academic qualifications<br>
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