[Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire

Sat Feb 28 06:58:21 PST 2015

Hello everyone, I am glad you approved the online form, now I will double
check if there are no limits of replies, if so I'll design in another
platform. Will come back with this in a few hours,
Best Regards

Carlos R.
 El 27/02/2015 23:54, "Tim Sutton" <tim at kartoza.com> escribió:

> Hi All
>
>
> I would be happy to go with the one hosted by Carlos. We should organise
> with Richard to get it linked to from the QGIS front page and publicise it
> on all our mailing lists etc. in order to maximise the response levels.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Carlos Rivas <carlosrsuazo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have designed the questionaire and is not limited to any number of
>> questions and can be found here
>> <http://www.jotform.co/form/50573680504858>, this is linked to a
>> googledoc spreadsheet that anyone can see (or edit if you want me to do
>> that, will need gmails) here
>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GH-KkF37_bPCbd1M-wmsK_0kA-elRGKzAuJsE57hkeA/edit?usp=sharing>
>> .
>>
>> I added a couple of suggestions (gender/region of work), please feel free
>> to use or ask me for changes if you want.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>
>>
>> Regards from Nicaragua.
>>
>> *Carlos Rivas S*
>> Especialista SIG, Medioambiente y Turismo
>> www.linkedin.com/in/crivas/es
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Jonathan Moules <
>> J.Moules at hrwallingford.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  (Re-sent as the previous message appears to have been held up with the
>>> list moderators.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>>   If we want to do it with Google Docs, can you (or someone else) do it?
>>> I don’t have a GDocs account.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that Survey Monkey’s free service has a limit of 100 responses
>>> too (not sure if we’ll get that many, but still).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Randal Hale [mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
>>> <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>]
>>> *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2015 1:42 PM
>>> *To:* Jonathan Moules
>>> *Cc:* 'qgis-community (qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org)'
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS
>>> Certification questionnaire
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Google docs might allow more "flexibility" in answering. You could set
>>> up a form - and allow answering by people who receive the link. Granted
>>> it's not as slick as Survey monkey - but it works.
>>>
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Tim Sutton [mailto:tim at kartoza.com <tim at kartoza.com>]
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:50 PM
>>> *To:* Jonathan Moules
>>> *Cc:* QGIS Developer Mailing List
>>> *Subject:* Re: Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PS might be nicer to discuss / cross post this to the QGIS community
>>> list - I have been trying to marshall QGIS certification discussions there
>>> and a number of edut folks are subscribed to it I think.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Jonathan Moules <
>>> J.Moules at hrwallingford.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Tim (and all),
>>> Per the IRC meeting, I've come up with a possible questionnaire that we
>>> can spam. Currently it's all text, but it can be converted easily enough.
>>> What platform should we stick it on for the question/answers? I can do a
>>> free surveymonkey unless someone has something better to suggest.
>>>
>>> Suggestions as to questions/answers welcome from all. It is a first
>>> draft.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> ===============
>>>
>>>
>>> The QGIS development community is interested in creating a set of QGIS
>>> Certifications. We're interested in feedback from the entire community as
>>> to what you'd like/use.
>>>
>>> The following is a set of prospective certificates; open to change.
>>>         QGIS User - Can operate QGIS to a functional level.
>>>         QGIS Professional - An expert user.
>>>         QGIS Developer - (Core or Plugins?)
>>>         QGIS Trainer - Can train for and test for certifications.
>>>
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> As a GIS professional, would you be interested in getting a QGIS
>>> Certification?
>>>         [Yes / No]
>>>
>>>
>>> If No, why not?
>>>         [Open question]
>>>
>>>
>>> As a GIS Employer, would you be more interested in candidates who have a
>>> QGIS Certification?
>>>         [Yes / No / Not an Employer]
>>>
>>>
>>> If No, why not?
>>>         [Open question]
>>>
>>>
>>> Rank these in the order you think they're important in a QGIS
>>> Certification?
>>>         [Rank]
>>>         Knowledge of GIS Concepts
>>>         Familiarity with QGIS
>>>         Time using QGIS
>>>         Exposure to different areas of QGIS
>>>         Community participation
>>>         Other [Open answer]
>>>
>>>
>>> Which of these would interest you:
>>>         [Choices for each: Not at all, Mildly, Definitely]
>>>         QGIS User - Can operate QGIS to a functional level.
>>>         QGIS Professional - An expert user.
>>>         QGIS Developer - (Core or Plugins?)
>>>         QGIS Trainer - Can train for and test for certifications.
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you agree/disagree with the proposed certificates? If you disagree,
>>> what certificates would you suggest?
>>>         [Open question]
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think would be a good way of measuring suitability for a
>>> certificate:
>>>         [Rank]
>>>         Community participation track record
>>>         Exam
>>>         Portfolio of work
>>>         Professional experience
>>>         Academic qualifications
>>>
>>>
>>> Any comments or feedback?
>>>         [Open question]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So I think this sounds fine. I noted Trevor's comments below, but I
>>> think it will be fine to go ahead with these Questions and see what kind of
>>> feedback we get.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for working on this!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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