[Qgis-psc] Notes about certification

[Régis Haubourg]

HI Alexandre,

this is close to what we proposed in march - see [0] - with a first
attempt of a template for reporting possible contributions.

I tend to agree that releasing material will not always help for all the
reasons mentionned previously. To me, just showing contribution prooves
each year should be enough.

However, I am not a huge fan of numbers. Some contributions are
enormous, but finally fall in a few commits. Some others are not
measurable, like getting involved in discussions, funding feature in the
long run, building and managing user groups. I think a general template
is enough to get an idea if a contributor is faking or not.

Best regards,

Régis



[0]
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Certification-and-contributions-tp5356357p5356365.html


On 12/09/2018 12:10, Alexandre Neto wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Here’s the take of the Portuguese User Group on this matter.
> (Disclaimer, we support Nyall and Richard's opinion).
>
>
> We have been talking (for the last year or more) about what we should
> consider to be an active contributing company. The outcome of the
> discussion is something like this:
>
>
> - Does the company is at least bronze sponsor, or the amount spent in
> donations and public crowdfundings sums 500€?
>
> - Does the company actively contributed with code to QGIS Core (how
> many commits?)
>
> - Does the company actively contributed with useful plugins to QGIS
> official Repo (how many new plugins?)
>
> - Does the company actively worked on documentation (how many commits?)
>
>
> Now, after your discussion we could also add:
>
> - Does the company publicly provides their original (and updated)
> training materials freely under a open license?
>
>
> We left the translation work out intentionally, as currently there is
> no way to measure a translator work.
>
>
> In our opinion, a company only needs to achieve one of the above
> topics ANNUALLY to be considered a QGIS friendly or QGIS supporter
> company. This should be reviewed every year, to make sure the company
> keeps helping the project year after year.
>
>
> For us, a company has always the option to support the project
> financially, in case they can’t or don’t want to contribute with work
> (time).
>
>
> We still have some doubts about the metrics for each topic. We have
> also concerns about companie's scale: how a small one man show company
> is compared with one with tens of people (What if the company has more
> than X employees then two topics should be required?).
>
>
> Still, we are willing to set some numbers and see how it works.
>
>
> For the Portuguese QGIS users,
>
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
>
> Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de <mailto:jef at norbit.de>> escreveu no
> dia terça, 11/09/2018 às 17:17:
>
>     Hi Tim,
>
>     On Tue, 11. Sep 2018 at 18:04:39 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>     > which seemed to get lost
>
>     No, it[0] didn't get lost.
>
>
>     Jürgen
>
>     [0]
>     https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2018-September/006527.html
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