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

[Phillip Davis]

It would be more authoritative if we got OSGeo Board blessing for this group to be the decider of who can issue the certs and precisely what they mean.  It would give the GeoForAll project a definitive purpose directly related to our academic orientation.  It might be a nice little proposal to NSF to fund an international meeting of educators to discuss it.
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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Franz-Josef Behr [franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:27 AM
To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [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:

***
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.
***

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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     Configuration
     Creating and Managing Databases
     Introduction to PSQL
     pgAdmin III
     Security basics
     SQL
     Backup and Recovery
     Point-in Time Recovery
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     Postgres Data Dictionary
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[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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