[Ica-osgeo-labs] Certification

[Franz-Josef Behr]

Dear Suchith,

thank you for your message and concerns. I'd like to bring in some 
clarification.

 1. Basically certification for FOSS should be based on the community
    for the community.
 2. Accreditation must be given by an acknowledged organisation like
    OSGeo, as you mentioned, and perhaps other communities (i.e. QGIS
    association [1]). This should be the "umbrella".
 3. Examinations should be endorsed by acknowledged Universities (i.e.
    Geo4All members). Here I am looking for supporters.
 4. Education is provided by certified trainers (still further work needed)
 5. Organisational work and management has to be done by an agency. This
    could be an opportunity for Tanzeel.


In my opinion FOSS4G/OSGeo certifications can be beneficial for all 
participants:

  * for the community
  * for the further dissemination of open tools, data, and standards
  * for the trainees
  * for the trainers
  * for the companies looking for employees
  * for the organising agency
  * for Universities (offering education).

Similar to [1] certification should have either a fixed, moderate cost, 
or a cost relative to the  GDP/mean salary of the country of origin of 
the trainee

Suchith and colleagues, I'd really appreciate your support and your ideas.

Regards
Franz-Josef
[1] http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification

Am 19.10.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Suchith Anand:
> Dear Tanzeel,
>
> Thank you for the email and more information. The idea of open source 
> certification model based on geospatial technology competency model is 
> good BUT i do have concerns  on your  aim to commercialise this 
> certification under the umberella of  a private company.  OSGeo Board 
> should be the one who should be able to take the decision on 
> certification for OSGeo software training.
>
> I was not aware of your discussions with Jeff and others on this that 
> you mention in your mail . I am ccing this to our education 
> colleagues, so they can give an informed answer and suggestions to 
> this. I suggest that you email the OSGeo Board with all details, so 
> that they will be able to give you suggestions on the best way for this.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* tanzeel rehman [tanzeelrehman130 at hotmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2015 2:20 PM
> *To:* suchith.anand at nottingham.ac.uk
> *Subject:* RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] STDF Grant for Leaders in Innovation 
> Fellowships (LIF) UK-Egypt Newton-Mosharafa Program
>
> Dear Suchith
>
> Thanks for concerns .yes it is my master thesis and I develop an open 
> source certification model based on geospatial technology competency 
> model. I preseneted this topic in FOSS4g Como pre conference and it 
> was highly appriciated even some of guys were really intrested. We had 
> a meeting also for accereditation and approval for this model and jeff 
> suggested that it should be project based certifocation. Now a days me 
> in spokane for gis pro confernece because i want to commercialise this 
> certification under the umberella of my new born company spatial junction
> And my second supervisor phillip davis  appriciated alot.
> I need support and suggesstions from all of you to uplift the OSgeo model
> Thanks
>
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> From: Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: tanzeelrehman130 at hotmail.com
> CC: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [Ica-osgeo-labs] STDF Grant for Leaders in Innovation 
> Fellowships (LIF) UK-Egypt Newton-Mosharafa Program
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:45:14 +0000
>
> Hi Tanzeel,
>
> Apologies i could not understand the background discussion on the 
> topic on certification. From Frans-Josef email some time back i 
> understand this is something related to your Masters Thesis. Is this 
> correct? Did you discuss this with the OSGeo Board?  If it is related 
> to OSGeo certification then you should get approval from the OSGeo 
> Board first.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>

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