[Ica-osgeo-labs] BOF in Portland: Some Ideas of certification

[Strobl Josef]

Interesting discussion, and I am glad to see it popping up again - a good indicator that it might not just turn into a fluke ...

My view is that a certification with 'open' as a defining criterion is hard to argue and justify - the only area where I could see this to work is in open specs like in OGC. Overall, individuals might be certified in software-specific competences (of course these can be FOSS), or in generic geospatial skills, knowledge and competences (this already is being done, though). Thus individual products, technologies and architectures, or workflows (implementation of services-based workflows, integrated portals etc) could be suitable targets for certification, but not so much their 'open' characteristics per se ...

Avoiding 'open' as _the_ defining characteristic also would help navigating a terrain with sometimes fuzzy boundaries. 

.josef

Prof. Dr. Josef Strobl | Josef.Strobl at sbg.ac.at 
University of Salzburg | Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS
Phone: +43 (0)662 8044 7503 | http://jstrobl.zgis.net 





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Von: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. September 2014 15:28
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Betreff: [Ica-osgeo-labs] BOF in Portland: Some Ideas of certification

Dear colleagues,

during the BoF meeting in Portland we discussed the topic of FOSS4G certification and Arnulf shared some of his thoughts and insights (see also his talk/discussion [2] which I unfortunately missed, the slides at
[3].)

After the BoF meeting I had a further informal discussion with Philip Davis.

One idea:

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The participating Universities (faculty members) could elaborate a set of prerequisites to award an FOSS4G certification and try to achieve an agreement amongst the academians as well with the OSGeo foundation.
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The certificates could point out that they are acknowledged by the faculties/Unviersities who joined the Ica-osgeo-lab movement plus OSGeo.

The certificate could be granted by these Universities (for their respective students/for participants in courses9 and by other acknowledged institutions (i.e. MetaSpatial).

I found some keywords for Postgres certification [1], see below. Such keywords could be transfered easily to our aimed fields of certification.

Arnulf lists some types of certification [4]:

     Open Source Geospatial Software Developer
     Open Source Geospatial Software Professional
     Open Geospatial Standards Expert
     Open Geospatial Data Expert
     Open Geospatial Consultant

Further/other types could be:

     Certified OS GIS Technologist
     Certified QGIS/... developer
     Certified Web GIS solution architect
     Certified PostGIS Associate ...

We could start with one of them...!?

Regards

Franz-Josef
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Postgres Plus Associate Certification


     PostgreSQL System Architecture
     Installation
     Configuration
     Creating and Managing Databases
     Introduction to PSQL
     pgAdmin III
     Security basics
     SQL
     Backup and Recovery
     Point-in Time Recovery
     Routine Maintenance
     Postgres Data Dictionary
     Moving Data

Postgres Plus Professional Certification

     PostgreSQL System Architecture
     Transactions and Concurrency
     Performance Tuning
     Table Partitioning
     High Availability & Replication
     Connection Pooling
     Monitoring
     Procedural Languages
     Add on Utilities - Contrib


[1] http://www.daseq.de/schulungen/enterprisedb/edb-pgac/
[2] http://vimeo.com/106231984
[3] http://www.metaspatial.net/conferences/metaspatial-institute.html#/3
[4] http://www.metaspatial.net/conferences/metaspatial-institute.html#/8
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