Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Certification and accreditation

On 9 April 2013 20:29, Cor Nouws <oolst@nouenoff.nl> wrote:

> Ian Lynch wrote (09-04-13 12:44)
>
>  A point to note is we don't do courses. We quality assure the outcomes of
> > courses.
>
> Is the way you assure the quality of the outcomes something that we can
> learn from?


Possibly - it's agreed with the UK national regulators through the
Regulatory Conditions. They are at
http://www.theingots.org/community/OfqualA

Its a bit like an ISO 9000 system for Awarding Organisations. In essence we
deal with centres - Schools, Colleges and Adult Education orgs. We train
their staff as assessors and they sign professional agreements on the web
site to uphold professional standards. We sample their work and in some
cases use short on-line tests to verify standards. The methods depend on
the risk presented by the qualification in terms of the level and its
purpose. You can down load the handbook we use for schools at
https://theingots.org/community/handbook2 Click here in the first
paragraph. There is a model test in the book and some explanation of the
assessment methods.

 This means we do not have a lot of content to change and we leave
> > the teaching to the institutions professional preferences.
>
>  The only things to up date are the Logo link on the home page of the web
> > site
>
> Apart from what the board may decide, at least the use of the logo without
> TDF line is needed and is something you can do without delay.


>  and *if* it conforms with the TDF logo usage policy to put the logo on
> > any certificates issued to say this certificate was issued in the
> > context of LO.
>
> If any use of the LibreOffice logo is allowed, then it should be in a way
> that it makes clear that LibreOffice is supported, and not that there is an
> endorsement from TDF.

That really depends on a subjective judgement. Is putting a logo on a
certificate claiming endorsement or is it simply saying this certificate
was achieved using that product? I can see it could be interpreted either
way so before I did it I'd want specific authorisation to do it. That would
apply to any software not just LO. I would not want to start awarding
certificates and then find there was a problem some time later. It's easy
to remove a logo from the web site, it is not so easy to revoke
certificates. In fact we would also incur problems with Ofqual so that
would be far too big a risk to the business overall to chance it.

PS we have a partner in the Netherlands called Pro-work. We work with them
on EU projects.

Cheers,
> --
>  - Cor
>  - http://nl.libreoffice.org
>  - www.librelex.org
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Ian

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