[Qgis-community-team] A certificate for certificator?

Thu Jan 28 12:26:50 PST 2021

---- Attivato gio, 28 gen 2021 13:11:59 +0100 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> ha scritto ----

Hi Roberto

Yes agreed we understand these are currently limitations and it is on our roadmap to one day address this. We had to build the certification platform incrementally and it was already incredibly difficult and time consuming to get where we are now, but improvements will surely come in the future.

Obviously I understand and appreciate your work. I know it is not simple and thanks for all your effort. I only do a proposal, but obviously I know that it is time consuming and we can all wait ;-)  

 If you have web developers in your company who are able to help, feel free to reach out and we can involve you in the process.

We are not expert on django even if we develop python plugin and script. I try to monitorate the https://github.com/kartoza/prj.app repository and if possible to give support. 

Cheers, 
Roberto

Regards

Tim

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:19 AM Roberto Marzocchi <mailto:roberto.marzocchi at gter.it> wrote:

Thanks for all your answer (Tudor, Kurt and Tim).

We have see the certificate for company and we understand your doubt.

Anyway IMHO I still think it's useful to have a cartificate for "QGIS Trainer" (as Tim correctly described it). 

To be more clear I try to give you two examples. 

Example 1 - Company and trainer

My company is one of the company able to give QGIS certificate. Why? Essentially for two reason:

1) for the quality of our course

2) for the support of 2/3 employees ( about 40 % of the company) on the QGIS project. The 60% of other employess occasionally use QGIS and in general GIS SW (focus on web developmemt, GNSS tool, administratve area, etc.)

Actually there isn't any connection between company and people who deal with QGIS project. If tomorrow I and my colleagues which are connected to QGIS project will change company (today it is just an unreal hypothesis, but it is possible), my old company will continue to have certification, but I think it is not correct.  I think it is useful to have a certificate for "QGIS Trainer" and that is mandatory for company to have one or more trainer in its organization chart. How? probably the same rules of company certification can be used (to actively contribute to community and project). 

Example 2 - Trainer and student

We have completed our first course with certification. Actually a student which follow a course of 30h and an exam about QGIS have a certificate for his CV. I and my colleagues which work every day with QGIS do not have any certificate or we can "buy" a certificate for ourselves, but IMHO it is not clear the difference between trainer and student and it is not nice. 

Cheers, 

R

Eng. Roberto Marzocchi, PhD

CTO - Chief Technology Officer

Gter srl (Unige spin-off)

Via Ruffini 9R - 16128 Genova 

http://P.IVA/CF 01998770992 

ph: 010-0899150 - mob: 349-8786575 

E-mail: mailto:roberto.marzocchi at gter.it -  http://www.gter.it 

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---- Attivato mer, 27 gen 2021 06:39:15 +0100 Tim Sutton <mailto:tim at kartoza.com> ha scritto ----

Hi

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, 07:57 Roberto Marzocchi, <mailto:roberto.marzocchi at gter.it> wrote:

Dear Community, 

my company (Gter srl) has been recently admitted in the QGIS certification program for Italy and this week we had the first exam at the end of a our first online course with certification (october - december 2020).

So we are really excited to be able to issue these first certificates!

Anyway I have a doubt. What about a certificate for certificator? Obviously I can buy also three more certificates for me and my colleagues which are involved in the QGIS courses, but IMHO we could think about a dedicated certificate. 

We have already discussed with Matteo Ghetta, the responsible of training for the italian community and Matteo suggested us to write in this mailing list

Just to follow up on this thread which we also covered elsewhere I think, currently there is no certification for trainers, and if we do introduce it one day, it would not be for presenting a course but for having attended some kind of Certified QGIS Trainer course.

Regards

Tim

Cheers, 

R

Eng. Roberto Marzocchi, PhD

CTO - Chief Technology Officer

Gter srl (Unige spin-off)

Via Ruffini 9R - 16128 Genova 

http://P.IVA/CF 01998770992 

ph: 010-0899150 - mob: 349-8786575 

E-mail: mailto:roberto.marzocchi at gter.it http://www.gter.it 

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