<div dir="ltr">Hi<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Trevor Wiens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tsw.web@gmail.com" target="_blank">tsw.web@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think that certification is a good idea and that some standard training materials tied to that make sense. On that effort I have two points.<br></div><div><br>First, I would suggest that if there is an effort to have QGIS certification, then this should be coupled with a discussion a while back to stable releases where effort is made on bug squashing and not new features. The reason for this is that certification on commercial platforms is tied to specific versions and thus companies investing in certification for their staff will expect the same type of effort. In my mind this seems naturally tied to an effort to put forward QGIS as a viable alternative to commercial tools for governments, NGOs and companies.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We have detailed a plan for this during the Essen hackfest - please see</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/timlinux/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/master/QEP-3-QGIS_Long_Term_Releases.rst">https://github.com/timlinux/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/master/QEP-3-QGIS_Long_Term_Releases.rst</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope that we can make 2.8 the first LTR release.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Second, I use QGIS to teach a Intro GIS course at the University of Calgary's Continuing Education department. Much of those materials are targeted toward using QGIS as a means to teach GIS not the particular features of QGIS. That said if there was an effort to setup standard QGIS educational materials I would be willing to contribute whatever parts of those materials that would be useful. <br><br></div></blockquote><div>Yes there are efforts towards this. We already have some resources and we have been in discussions to build on these. Perhaps we can start using the mostly unused QGIS-Edu mailing list to coordinate and collaborate - it would be great to have your inputs (and anyone else interested in this topic).</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-edu/">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-edu/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">TSW<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:31 AM, matteo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matteo.ghetta@gmail.com" target="_blank">matteo.ghetta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Hi all,<br>
as pointed out in Essen, in a (I hope quick) future there will be the change to some people to give official QGIS certificates.<br>
These people should be authorized by the "core team" and the certification money will go to QGIS.<br>
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So, for example, I'm authorized and I made a course by myself with my company to 10 people. 3 of them are interested to have an official QGIS certification, they pay something and that's all, right?<br>
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In the Internet I found this website:<br>
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<a href="https://www.coursera.org/" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/</a><br>
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it offers courses for free with scheduled homeworks, tutorials, videos, data, etc...<br>
So I can join the class for free, attend the lessons and do all the quizzes and assignments. But, if I want a "Coursera" certification that proves that I attended successfully the course I have to pay for this certification (around 50 bucks).<br>
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Do you think that this method can also fit for QGIS? I mean, maybe a section in the website (or somewhere else) where you can do a course and earn an official certificate?<br>
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Suggestions are welcome!!<br>
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Cheers</div></div><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Matteo<br>
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