[Ica-osgeo-labs] Certification

Tue Oct 20 03:45:37 PDT 2015

Hi,

Arnulf Christl had already put in place a certification process for 
Geospatial professionals [1]. Maybe we could take advantage of his 
knowledge and institute as an external organization to do the 
certification after the educational process in our 
universities/labs/etc. We might develop some kind of agreement/MOU with 
him (and OSGeo) to do local certification using the same process.

For foreign languages there are several institutes providing external 
examination like Goethe Institute, Cambridge English, HSK, etc, where 
students can get a professional diploma for their skills. We could do 
the same with Arnulf's metaspatial institute and OSGeo.

[1] http://www.metaspatial.net/downloads/metaspatial-institute-flyer.pdf

Regards,

Jorge

Às 11:14 de 20-10-2015, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska escreveu:
> Dear Franz-Josef, Tanzeel,
>
> Your conversation with Suchith it's quite similar to the one we did in
> Nodebo during the 1st QGIS Conference (then it was obviously related to
> QGIS only).
>
> I have two general questions...
> No. 1 What does it mean "FOSS4G/OsGeo certification"? What kind of
> competences should be covered by this certification - use of specific
> soft only (which one) or some broader knowledge & skills related to
> implementation of GI tools and spatial data?
> No. 2 How is your idea related to QGIS certification (mentioned in the
> email)?
>
> Regards,
> Ela
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> W dniu 2015-10-20 o 11:45, Franz-Josef Behr pisze:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *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
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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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