[Qgis-community-team] What about the QGIS Certifications?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Lene Fischer <lfi at ign.ku.dk> wrote:

>  Hi Tim,
>
> Could I be at the sideline at the moment. I´m working on the meeting in
> Nødebo in May and have a lot of projects in process/progress:
> Developersmeeting, Usersconference/workshops and Academic Curriculum
> meeting.
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> On Wednesday I´m having a meeting with my local colleges planning the
> practical event and on Thursday/Friday I´m going to the Danish
> mappingconference – more than 600 participants – (GIS geeks), giving a
> small speech about using OpenSource in education.
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> At the conference I´ve called for a meeting with Danish QGIS users
> /developers– to plan participation both in May and a danish meeting I June
> – In June we would try to form a danish QGIS usergroup.
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> So my head and calendar is a bit full right now – no room for
> certification at the moment.
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> BTW I have set 3 applications to FORSTER:
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> The 3 applications are for:
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> ·        LiveStraming and videorecording/upload of 2*3 workshops in May –
> as at FOSS4G in Portland
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> ·        Travel expenses for the participants at the Academic Curriculum
> at Nødebo in May
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> ·        Travel expenses for the writers at a web GIS course/academic
> curriculum. We meet at Skype, but also like to meet twice – in July and
> October. (Como and Developermeeting in ?)
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>
> ….. and tomorrow I start a 9 week GIS course with 60 students – and my
> computerlab is not yet installed ….. The IT dept did f… it up. .. Glad
> using QGIS – the student
>
can just install it on their own computers J
>

​Hehe ok your plate indeed looks full!Great to see all the stuff you have
going on!

Paolo & Giovanni I think we could still start pressing on with some of our
other agenda points - in particular spending time to finish evaluating the
certification platform and starting to formulate some question clusters per
modules. What do you think?

Regards

Tim​



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> Kind regards
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> *Lene Fischer*
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> Associate Professor
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> *Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management*
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> University of Copenhagen
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> MOB +45 40115084
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> lfi at ign.ku.dk
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> *Fra:* Tim Sutton [mailto:tim at kartoza.com]
> *Sendt:* 16. november 2014 18:54
> *Til:* Paolo Cavallini; Lene Fischer; Phillip Davis
> *Cc:* matteo; qgis-community; Tim Sutton
> *Emne:* Re: What about the QGIS Certifications?
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> Hi
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> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
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> Il 14/11/2014 16:54, matteo ha scritto:
> > Hi guys,
> > in Essen we have talk about a possible QGIS Certification material to do
> (exercises
> > and more..)
> >
> > Any development out there?
>
> Not here: Tim?
> I think it would be important not to miss the momentum we impressed while
> in Essen.
> Although complex, this would be a major achievement for the project.
> All the best.
>
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> ​Agreed - Lene and Phillip could we do a follow up call (including Paolo
> and Giovanni Manghi this time too and any other interested parties) so that
> we can plot our course to certification nirvana? May 2015 is rapidly
> approaching....
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> Regards
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> Tim​
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> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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