[Board] Open Source Geospatial Certification

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm taking a previous email thread which started covering Open Source 
Geospatial into the public OSGeo Board list.

An idea floated was that the OSGeo Foundation could/should possibly get 
involved in the OSGeo Certification process, possibly by certifying the 
certifiers.

My thoughts are:
* OSGeo certification is a worthy idea
* The running of OSGeo certification program will be time consuming, and 
should be run by private enterprise, according to open processes (as 
already outlined).
* The OSGeo Foundation could potentially endorse the process, although 
the OSGeo Foundation needs to be wary of providing favours to one 
business over another.
* There is some cross over between the Open Source GeoSpatial 
Certification program and OSGeo Advocates List, in that both provide a 
way to advertise and rate OSGeo experience. I feel there is opportunity 
for synergies between the two, with the potential for them to be merged 
under one banner.

As Arnulf has originally proposed the business model, I'm interested to 
hear his thoughts.

[1] http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate

On 10/10/2013 6:11 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Actually better / more info here:
>
> http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute


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