[Qgis-psc] Notes about certification

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,

Il 09/13/2018 01:18 AM, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
> My concern here -- in the name of "giving back", we're actually mainly
> just benefiting the "leaches".
lots of interesting thought in this thread, thanks to all.
Let me try to summarize:

* software and documentation are very similar, but not exactly the same
thing: when donating code (which is often paid anyway) we help primarily
users, so our customers; when donating docs we help more our competitors
* as a consequence, donating training material is feasible for those who
do mainly coding, less so for who live mostly on training
* our aim is to give a fair advantage to those who contribute to the project
* the requirement to show the training material comes primarily from the
need to check the quality of the training
* we all would like to see free training material, but nobody sees this
as a blocker (?)
* even if free, the material could be useless for us (e.g. extracting
content from pdf slides can be painful), and cheating is very easy
* we want to move forward.

A possible solution would be:
* require to submit the training material to the committee for
evaluation, which is a critical step in acceptance
* suggest to submit in a source, text form (rst or md) following our
documentation style, if possible
* require an explicit licence for the material, suggesting a CC-BY-SA
whenever possible.

As for the evaluation, we agreed that there are no good and simple
measures for contribution. Because of this we decided to let proponents
show what they have done, and evaluate each proposal.
I am not sure a bronze sponsorship is enough for this: in fact this
would equate to a cheap entry fee to be accepted. I would leave
sponsoring out of the evaluation.

All the best.

-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS.ORG Chair:
http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/