[QGIS-Developer] Certification approval

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

Following the PSC meeting tonight it was agreed to use the following text for defining Certifying Organisation acceptance criteria (see below). The requirement for sharing training course documentation is softened which hopefully removes the main point of contention.

Regards

Tim



Proposed Certification website text


The QGIS Certificate Program is designed to promote both community involvement in the QGIS project and quality education for QGIS software. As such the application process requires applicants to both detail their contributions to the QGIS project and make their training materials available for review. Contributions to the QGIS project include activities such as:

	• Development/commits to QGIS
	• Contributions to the QGIS documentation and training materials
	• Translation of QGIS materials
	• Authoring plugins
	• Filing bug reports
	• Financially supporting new feature development
	• Financial contributions to and sponsorship of QGIS
	• Involvement in your local QGIS User Group
	• Publication of open QGIS course ware
	• Authoring QGIS books

You may be required to provide for review the training material for each of your courses. This includes exercises, lectures and data. This material will be reviewed by the certification programme leads for currentness, accurate representation of the QGIS project and overall quality. If the material is not of adequate quality, this can be cause for refusal.

Following an initial review, the application will be sent to local QGIS groups for their opinion. This portion of the review should take place in less than one month. If there is not a local QGIS user group in your country or region, the QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) will make a determination based on material provided and your reputation in the community. In this latter case you are encouraged to establish a local QGIS User Group. If you are not deemed to be a member of the QGIS community in good standing this can be cause for refusal.

The PSC will make the final determination as to whether your organization may issue official QGIS Certificates. If accepted as a QGIS Certified Organization your contributions to the project may be published for transparency.

If approved you are required to make a €20 donation to the QGIS project for each certificate. This creates a mechanism for financial support of the project.  

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Tim Sutton

Co-founder: Kartoza
Ex Project chair: QGIS.org

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