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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Trevor,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We never really discussed that during the meeting, though it’s a good question. The meeting more went in an “assigning tasks” kind of direction, touching a few
questions here and there. I think one of the potential tasks was going to be about covering that sort of question. It’s also something I’ll try and work into the questionnaire I’m formulating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Trevor Wiens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robert Szczepanek<br>
<b>Cc:</b> qgis-community; qgis-developer; qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Thanks for the link. I would have liked to be involved but couldn't be there today.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I know this was discussed briefly before but I'm still unsure of the answer. Is the main push to test tool competency or is underlying knowledge of spatial problems and processes part of the purpose? I have materials from my GIS intro course I teach for
the University of Calgary that is more focused on understanding that uses QGIS. I am willing to share these but the how to sections are older and would need to be updated (I teach this course every 18 months).
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I realize that this will be QGIS focused and to provide something similar to commercial certification the focus needs to mostly focus on tool specific competency. I would however suggest that having a solid coverage of basic GIS knowledge would be a step
up over commercial certification programs where it is not uncommon to see people with credentials on paper who understand very little.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If someone can fill me in where we are at that level of specifics I would appreciate it.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>TSW<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 12, 2015 10:14 AM, "Robert Szczepanek" <<a href="mailto:robert@szczepanek.pl">robert@szczepanek.pl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Log from IRC meeting is available at:<br>
<a href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification" target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification</a><br>
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regards,<br>
Robert<br>
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W dniu 06.02.2015 o 16:34, Tim Sutton pisze:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi All<br>
<br>
We will be holding a meeting on IRC to discuss QGIS training and<br>
certification on Thursday 12 Feb 2015 and 14h00 GMT in the channel<br>
#qgis-certification.<br>
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If you have ideas about a certification programme for QGIS, please come<br>
along and join us, or submit your ideas but email for discussion in the<br>
meeting!<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
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