[Qgis-developer] QGIS certification

[Trevor Wiens]

Thanks Tim. That looks like a good planfor long term releases. I'll sign
onto that list to see how I can contribute on the training side.

TSW
On Oct 14, 2014 4:10 PM, "Tim Sutton" <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Trevor Wiens <tsw.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that certification is a good idea and that some standard training
>> materials tied to that make sense. On that effort I have two points.
>>
>> First, I would suggest that if there is an effort to have QGIS
>> certification, then this should be coupled with a discussion a while back
>> to stable releases where effort is made on bug squashing and not new
>> features. The reason for this is that certification on commercial platforms
>> is tied to specific versions and thus companies investing in certification
>> for their staff will expect the same type of effort. In my mind this seems
>> naturally tied to an effort to put forward QGIS as a viable alternative to
>> commercial tools for governments, NGOs and companies.
>>
>
> We have detailed a plan for this during the Essen hackfest - please see
>
>
> https://github.com/timlinux/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/master/QEP-3-QGIS_Long_Term_Releases.rst
>
> I hope that we can make 2.8 the first LTR release.
>
>
>>
>> Second, I use QGIS to teach a Intro GIS course at the University of
>> Calgary's Continuing Education department. Much of those materials are
>> targeted toward using QGIS as a means to teach GIS not the particular
>> features of QGIS. That said if there was an effort to setup standard QGIS
>> educational materials I would be willing to contribute whatever parts of
>> those materials that would be useful.
>>
>> Yes there are efforts towards this. We already have some resources and we
> have been in discussions to build on these. Perhaps we can start using the
> mostly unused QGIS-Edu mailing list to coordinate and collaborate - it
> would be great to have your inputs (and anyone else interested in this
> topic).
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-edu/
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> TSW
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:31 AM, matteo <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> as pointed out in Essen, in a (I hope quick) future there will be the
>>> change to some people to give official QGIS certificates.
>>> These people should be authorized by the "core team" and the
>>> certification money will go to QGIS.
>>>
>>> So, for example, I'm authorized and I made a course by myself with my
>>> company to 10 people. 3 of them are interested to have an official QGIS
>>> certification, they pay something and that's all, right?
>>>
>>> In the Internet I found this website:
>>>
>>> https://www.coursera.org/
>>>
>>> it offers courses for free with scheduled homeworks, tutorials, videos,
>>> data, etc...
>>> So I can join the class for free, attend the lessons and do all the
>>> quizzes and assignments. But, if I want a "Coursera" certification that
>>> proves that I attended successfully the course I have to pay for this
>>> certification (around 50 bucks).
>>>
>>> Do you think that this method can also fit for QGIS? I mean, maybe a
>>> section in the website (or somewhere else) where you can do a course and
>>> earn an official certificate?
>>>
>>> Suggestions are welcome!!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>> Matteo
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Trevor Wiens
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>> Calgary, Alberta
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>>
>
>
>
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