[Qgis-psc] QGIS Polska

[Robert Szczepanek]

W dniu 15.12.2010 11:54, Tim Sutton pisze:
> 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.

Thank you Tim for those comments - that's exactly the point. The only 
problem is time, so we try to find now some temporary solutions.

For target certification we will prepare preliminary schedule and road 
map proposals. In 1-2 weeks we can present it for disussion. Send it to 
'psc' mailing list or directly to 'edu'?

regards,
Robert