[Qgis-psc] Notes about certification

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 23:37, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:

> I'm a huge FOSS fan, I'm fully dedicated to open access courseware AND I
> hope QGIS is socially uplifting countries/people :-)
> And having some discussion here around me, I'm getting more into your
> poition, but still have the feeling that docs are different from code.
>
> I do agree though that 'giving back' is an important thing.

My concern here -- in the name of "giving back", we're actually mainly
just benefiting the "leaches". In Australia at least there are a
number of training organisations who offer QGIS training, yet have
never contributed a single line of code or cent of funding back to the
project. I don't see how requiring an open license on materials will
help at all here. Instead, I suspect these organisations will just
take other's open training materials, submit these for the
certification, and continue not to contribute anything back to the
project OR shared training material.

Nyall


>
> But as said: let's move on! I also think about full disclosure of
> material now, but not to the rest of the world, but only to "the
> community", as in
> - what you propose: the certifying body
> - or bigger: the "QGIS training material writers group". So at least
> QGIS/community can reuse the material into the writing of a really open
> training material.
>
> And we already have (both yours) "A Gentle Introduction to GIS" and
> https://docs.qgis.org/2.18/en/docs/training_manual/ off course, being
> rewritten now via a Grant by Matteo.
>
> Hans vd Kwast was also tweeting about his QGIS OpenCourseWare:
> https://twitter.com/hansakwast/status/1039044047837581312
>
> I also really like the https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy labs
> (http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/)
>
> Groet,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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