[Ica-osgeo-labs] On Certification

Thu Jun 11 11:28:49 PDT 2015

Hi Suchith,

Phil already is taking the lead on the certification issue in Como...
See the first item in [1]!

All, please review [1] and add any other discussion topics that might be
missing for Como at the bottom and I'll try and organize.

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_GeoForAll_Agenda

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Phil, Arnulf, thanks for the updates.
>
> Phil- may i request that you take lead on this and discuss ideas with all
> at Como meetings so we can move ahead on this.
>
> All - if you have suggestions/inputs, it will be great if you can send
> your ideas now on this.
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Davis [
> pdavis at delmar.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:05 PM
> To: Arnulf Christl; ICA OSGeo Labs (list)
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] On Certification
>
> We met with Tim Sutton of the QGIS Project in Copenhagen with Lene Fisher
> and others and have started a QGIS specific certification process.  We
> educators believe the developers need to create/control the certification
> process and we academics will provide the educational materials to get our
> students ready for both industry-wide and application-specific
> certification.
>
> Phil Davis
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Arnulf Christl [
> arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 8:55 AM
> To: ICA OSGeo Labs (list)
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] On Certification
>
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> Folks,
> after lots of talks and thoughts about certification nothing much
> really happened. I stopped to work on the individual certification
> program which I started three years ago because of a lack of support
> from the community and too many obvious potential areas of conflict.
> Thanks for the great initiative and work by Phillip Davis and the QGIS
> team for trying their best to find a viable option. I am sure
> eventually something really good is going to come out of this.
>
> And the topic is still hot as this news item shows, I recommend it as
> a good read in preparation for our BoF in Como in July:
> http://trajectorymagazine.com/defense-intelligence/item/1959-professiona
> lizing-the-geoint-workforce.html
>
> FYI: We have shifted our focus towards a certification program for
> businesses who have indicated a need for certified Open Source
> competency on an organizational level. We don't really know yet where
> this will get us but it seems to be a lot more straightforward than
> the individual certification we initially envisaged.
>
> Thanks again to those who tried hard to get something off the ground
> and sorry to drop the ball at this point but it has developed into a
> bottomless hole of time and money which I cannot maintain on my own.
>
> Have fun,
> Arnulf
>
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