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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Phillip Davis <pdavis at delmar.edu> wrote:

> Paolo, we academics are waiting on OSGeo and or QGIS Project to define the
> certification and then we can build our curriculum to meet the
> expectations.  This needs to be driven primarily by the developer community
> because they understand the technology better than anyone in education and
> should be the leaders of defining the knowledge skills and abilities.
> That's how we accomplished the Geospatial Technology Competency Model for
> the US Dept. of Labor.  I would be glad to offer our Adobe Connect meeting
> site to foster collaboration, but this effort cannot and should not be led
> by academics because the certification would not be respected by industry
> and why would students aspire to it if not?
>
>
​Paolo and anyone else interested, lets set up a meeting in the next two
weeks​ to try to get our next steps forward. Has everyone had a chance to
try out taotesting? Or is there some other platform others would like us to
evaluate as a testing platform? Or perhaps we need to take a different
approach to defining the curriculum?

And hey Arnulf & Jeff nice to see you CC'd in here!

Regards

Tim



> Cordially,
>
> Phillip Davis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Cavallini [mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:07 PM
> To: Phillip Davis; Tim Sutton; Lene Fischer
> Cc: matteo; qgis-community; Tim Sutton
> Subject: Re: What about the QGIS Certifications?
>
> Il 17/11/2014 18:34, Phillip Davis ha scritto:
> > This looks interesting.  A type of academic certificate that meets
> universal EU
>
> Hi all.
> Any progress on this?
> All the best.
>
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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