Hi all
Following the PSC meeting tonight it was agreed to use the following text for
defining Certifying Organisation acceptance criteria (see below). The
requirement for sharing training course documentation is softened which
hopefully removes the main point of contention.
Regards
Tim
Proposed Certification website text
The QGIS Certificate Program is designed to promote both community involvement
in the QGIS project and quality education for QGIS software. As such the
application process requires applicants to both detail their contributions to
the QGIS project and make their training materials available for review.
Contributions to the QGIS project include activities such as:
• Development/commits to QGIS
• Contributions to the QGIS documentation and training materials
• Translation of QGIS materials
• Authoring plugins
• Filing bug reports
• Financially supporting new feature development
• Financial contributions to and sponsorship of QGIS
• Involvement in your local QGIS User Group
• Publication of open QGIS course ware
• Authoring QGIS books
You may be required to provide for review the training material for each of
your courses. This includes exercises, lectures and data. This material will be
reviewed by the certification programme leads for currentness, accurate
representation of the QGIS project and overall quality. If the material is not
of adequate quality, this can be cause for refusal.
Following an initial review, the application will be sent to local QGIS groups
for their opinion. This portion of the review should take place in less than
one month. If there is not a local QGIS user group in your country or region,
the QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) will make a determination based on
material provided and your reputation in the community. In this latter case you
are encouraged to establish a local QGIS User Group. If you are not deemed to
be a member of the QGIS community in good standing this can be cause for
refusal.
The PSC will make the final determination as to whether your organization may
issue official QGIS Certificates. If accepted as a QGIS Certified Organization
your contributions to the project may be published for transparency.
If approved you are required to make a €20 donation to the QGIS project for
each certificate. This creates a mechanism for financial support of the
project.
—
Tim Sutton
Co-founder: Kartoza
Ex Project chair: QGIS.org
Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source:
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