[Ica-osgeo-labs] On Certification

[Phillip Davis]

This article, if I read it right, means USGIF is no longer limiting their certification to a dozen or so specialized GIS University programs responsible for educating America's GeoIntelligence "Spook" professionals.  Looks like the mean to compete with GISCI and become the generic certification in the industry.  USGIF is a well funded and well oiled organization and they must believe certification will be money-maker for them in the long run.  I suggest OSGeo double down and get their own FOSS certification accomplished and operational in 2016.

Phillip Davis
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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
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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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