On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 06:33, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks Tim, PSC This looks great to me. Thanks for taking the time and effort to work through the concerns! Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
