[Qgis-psc] QGIS Education / Certification BoF Notes
Tim Sutton
tim at kartoza.com
Thu Apr 20 14:19:47 PDT 2023
Thanks Ben, and yes of course have been tracking the wonderful work you do,
please feel free to be involved.
Regards
Tim
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 7:10 PM Ben Hur Pintor <bnhr.xyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all and thanks Tim for the update.
>
> I think this is a worthwhile initiative and I'd love to help or be
> involved if possible.
>
> I'm a long-time FOSS4G user and educator. I've been doing training and
> building QGIS learning resources—most of which in the open—for quite some
> time and around 2020, my consulting business BNHR, became a QGIS Certifying
> organization—the first here in the Philippines at the time.
>
> During my tenure as part of the Open Knowledge Foundation from 2020 to
> 2022, I had the privilege to design, develop, and deliver a series of open
> geodata training for government and non-government organizations on how to
> use QGIS. These events were attended by more than 200 participants from 20
> countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. See:
> https://school-of-data.github.io/okf-events-a/series/open-geodata-programme/
> <https://school-of-data.github.io/okf-events-a/series/open-geodata-programme/)>.
> For the training program, I implemented and improved on an innovative
> two-phase training format that includes a remote mentoring phase where
> participants are guided by mentors on a simple QGIS/mapping project over
> the course of a few weeks—an approach that I've since adopted even in my
> own training activities.
>
> As part of that program, I also helped develop, co-authored, and currently
> maintain an open source QGIS curriculum that is localized for 16 countries
> and available in 7 languages (Amharic, Arabic, English, German, Portuguese,
> Spanish, and Vietnamese). See:
> https://school-of-data.github.io/open-geodata-curriculum/en and
> https://github.com/school-of-data/open-geodata-curriculum
>
> Thank you and kindly keep me in the loop.
>
> All the best,
> Ben Hur
>
> ---
> *BNHR <https://bnhr.xyz>*
> bnhr.xyz
> hi at bnhr.xyz
>
>
> *BNHR*
> liberty. data. geospatial.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:16 AM Tim Sutton via QGIS-PSC <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends
>>
>> Attached below are my rough notes from our BoF session on education (&
>> certification) that we held today at the QGIS conference. Please note that
>> this is an open discussion and not a bunch of mandates. We will groom our
>> thoughts into a document which properly describes our plans in a more
>> concrete way, and then ask the PSC for a mandate to continue.
>>
>> Please feel free to pick up a discussion here in this thread if you would
>> like more context or you would like to provide more information.
>>
>> I have created a document
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JoN8ShzLQ5sF6BEYJCiOPZMAWw5sg9l3zt5Jo7OkXjA/edit?usp=sharing> that
>> we can use to compose our combined thoughts in a structured manner.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> - QGIS Education Bof
>> - Present:
>> - Andre Mano - GIS Expert a.dasilvamano at utwente.nl
>> - Kurt Menke - Certification Team - kurt at septima.dk
>> - Yneke van Iersel -trainee at Geodan yneke.van.iersel at geodan.nl
>> - Mark Terlien - Educator m.terlien at has.nl
>> - Linda Angulo Lopez - Natural History Museum in Paris
>> angulo.linda at gmail.com
>> - Marco Bernasocchi - PSC Chair marco at qgis.org
>> - David van Winsum - incompany Educator
>> david.vanwinsum at anteagroup.nl
>> - Marielle Geers - Educator geersplasmans at hotmail.com
>> - Open Science Initiative - EU funded programmes
>> - Discussion point how to convince departments to adopt QGIS with
>> or instead of ESRI
>> - Needs a 'gently gently' approach rather than hard mandates
>> - Internship market place - discussed idea of pair EU and e.g. SA
>> interns
>> - Possibly Erasmus funding if the partner org is in EU e.g.
>> Kartoza EU
>> - Possibly add new flavour of QGIS certificate specific for
>> internships
>> - Discussed more the idea of getting certification as a trainer
>> rather as an org
>> - Perhaps the trainer can have more specific enrollment
>> requirement
>> - how will we measure competency? Various options discussed:
>> - language issue
>> - standardised course via annointed teachers to bootstrap
>> - Possible starting group of 'annointed trainers'
>> - Giovanni
>> - Ujaval
>> - Hans
>> - Three parts to the programme:
>> - Didactic skills
>> - Technical skills
>> - Ecosystem - how OS and community involvement works,
>> release schedule
>> - Clear criteria for class
>> - Marielle & Mark volunteering to help to develop didactic
>> criteria
>> - Technical skills requirements criteria developed by
>> Giovanni
>> - Ecosystem criteria - Andre Mano to develop criteria
>> - Certification maintenance:
>> - How long will certification last? Criteria like minimum
>> number of certificates to issue over a period (with system implementation
>> to flag these automatically)
>> - Cost for trainer certificate:
>> - Needs to attend the training of an official train the
>> trainer who sets the price himself for the course
>> - QGIS Contribution part of the certification - price TBD
>> - Big mac index pricing for certification?
>> - Need to ensure we spread the grandfathered in train the
>> traininer corps around the globe so that there is good chance to find a
>> trainer course at an equitable fee
>> - Each certified org needs to have at least one certified
>> trainer
>> - Having at least one certified trainer by certified
>> organization, however the certificates can still be issued by non-certified
>> trainers as long as the signature of a certified trainer is also included
>> in the certificate.
>> -
>> - Tim to get Dimas to implement big mac based system and train
>> the traininer system under current QGIS funding (we have about 8 days
>> available TBC). Other technical implementations
>> - Platform may only issue course certificates attached to a
>> certified trainer
>> - Modify the certificates to include the :
>> - Org logo
>> - Training presenter signature (they do not need to be a
>> certified trainer)
>> -
>> - Next steps:
>> - *Tim* to set up a requirements doc and invite all
>> participants to share their ideas with a deadline
>> - Three coordinators to lead the sections in the user facing
>> docs on what the curriculum requirements are (and add them to the
>> requirements doc)
>> - *Marielle & Mark* volunteering to help to develop
>> didactic criteria
>> - Technical skills requirements criteria developed by
>> *Giovanni* (first need to chat to him)
>> - Ecosystem criteria - *Andre Mano* to develop criteria
>> - *Marco:* List of grandfathered certifiers to be identified
>> and agreed with PSC
>> - Communicate to the broader community
>> - *Tim* to put Marielle in contact with Seabilwe and Bridget
>> to share ideas on how to introduce QGIS into schools
>> -
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>>
>> --
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Tim Sutton
>> Kartoza Co-Founder
>> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:
>> * Desktop GIS programming services
>> * Geospatial web development
>> * GIS Training
>> * Consulting Services
>> Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee
>>
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Tim Sutton
Kartoza Co-Founder
Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:
* Desktop GIS programming services
* Geospatial web development
* GIS Training
* Consulting Services
Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee
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