[Qgis-psc] QGIS Polska

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Robert Szczepanek
<robert at szczepanek.pl> wrote:
> Hi Tim and PSC,
>
> W dniu 15.12.2010 10:34, Tim Sutton pisze:
>>>>
>>>> We started organizing QGIS courses and our question is as follows:
>>>> Can we sign attendance certificates as "QGIS Polska", confirming them
>>>> with
>>>> our names?
>>
>> My opinion is that we should wait until we have the proper
>> acreditation in place - we can fast track this part but if we end up
>> with unofficial QGIS certificates and official QGIS certificates (with
>> serial numbers etc.) its going to get very confusing. If necessary we
>> (...)
>> Hope above made sense....
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>
> There are two different issues/certificates.
>
> First one is skills certificate.
> This was our proposal at hackfest. Centralized serial numbers, etc. As I
> understand, all your comments Tim are related to this certificate. And I
> agree with you in 100%.
>
> Second one is course attendance certificate.
> Our post was related to this 'minor', local issue.
> This part is much harder to centralize, as MANY firms/persons provide such
> courses already running all around the world. Can/should it be centralized?
> If so, some policy should be ready in advance.
>

Yes I understand. I still think though that if people want to brand
their courses as in some way official QGIS courses (and hence use the
logo etc on it) the course convenors should at least have a
certificate of competence and e.g. write on the course certificate
something like this:

"This is to certify that Joe Bloggs has attended the course
Introduction to QGIS a presented by Borys Jurgiel (QGIS Accredited
Trainer #1234) on 5 January 2010"

Ie. that we can demonstrate that the course was conducted by someone
who actually knows the topic of QGIS. Let me add to this by saying
that I

+1

vote for you and Milena to be grandfathered (grandmothered :-) into
the QGIS project as trainers and I'm not trying to stop you giving out
a nice government friendly cert. I'm more concerned that QGIS training
as a branded certificate can be prevented from being meaningless
because anyone can simply cut and paste the logo onto a certificate.

Regards

Tim

> regards,
> Robert
>



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