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

[Philip James]

A really interesting idea.  From our perspective with a largely diverse Undergraduate intake who access jobs across the spectrum of the geospatial and surveying industries it would make sense to also consider a broader, perhaps less technical perspective towards certification  I was thinking along the lines of the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) for OSGEO products - demonstrating to potential employers an awareness and a certain level of competence in core open source geo technologies.   There would be potential here for institutions to substitute their own preferred OSGEO software (eg. QGIS or GVSIG) whilst maintaining the same level of accreditation.  For our current professional accreditation of our programmes we provide evidence periodically (every 3 or 5 years) to demonstrate that our courses are suitable to be accredited by external bodies.   Something along these lines with OSGEO would be an ideal scenario.

Phil

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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
Sent: 24 September 2014 14:28
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:

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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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     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
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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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