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

Fri Feb 27 22:47:56 PST 2015

Hi -
What conclusion are you trying to get by asking about sex ?  I don't see a reason for this question regarding any aspect of QGIS.

Regards, David
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David's cell  +1.303.956.2138
      From: Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>
 To: Carlos Rivas <carlosrsuazo at gmail.com> 
Cc: "qgis-community (qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org)" <qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org> 
 Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:54 PM
 Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] FW: Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire

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, this is linked to a googledoc spreadsheet that anyone can see (or edit if you want me to do that, will need gmails) here.
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 SEspecialista SIG, Medioambiente y Turismowww.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]
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]
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

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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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