Re: [certification] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO/OOo certification

Le 2010-10-31 04:42, Ian a écrit :
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 00:21 -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
>>
>> Congrats to you and whoever else who are behind the certification project.
>>
>> Is the certification process all on-line? Or are the parts of the
>> process where the people attaining certification will have face-to-face
>> contact to complete their certification programme.
>
> There is some need for face to face otherwise quality assurance doesn't
> work. How would you know it was that person's work? We train trusted
> assessors locally and check their work remotely - this is also an
> advantage because they can make money from training locally that leads
> to an official certification. There are many large training companies
> around the world, many use external certification companies so there is
> no conflict of interest. Governments use external certification as a way
> of verifying that government funded training actually takes place. We
> can work with community members setting up their own training businesses
> or working in established companies. Most of the system is on-line
> though because it is a lot less expensive. If you want to see how our
> systems work and a wider picture go to
>
> http://theingots.org/community/KL
>
> Lots of links demonstrating how things work.
>
>> I don't think that there is anything in N. America.
>
> Our partner in the USA is Bryant Patten of the National Center for Open
> Source in Education. Other community members involved include Gabriel
> Gurley from the USA and Evan Leibovitch from Canada, Alexandro Colorado
> in Mexico. Anyone else is very welcome. Main focus in Europe initially
> is simply because there is potential funding from the EU to get started
> and we already have more partners in the EU trained as assessors and
> using the technology.
>

Thanks for the note Ian. I may look into this in Canada.

Marc