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

Le 2010-11-08 00:35, Andy Brown a écrit :
> On Sun Nov 07 2010 19:28:29 GMT-0800 (PST) Marc Paré wrote:
> > Hi Andy and Dave:
> >
> > If you read the Ingots FAQ, you will probably find information that
> > will inform you more of their programme.
> >
> > One of the interesting FAQ states:
> >
> > "We will support training assessor trainers in any country in the
> > World, normally free of charge if the country demonstrates it has a
> > viable business plan to expand the INGOT programme and will support
> > translation of the web site, certificates and the handbook into their
> > language."
>
> A couple of key points, 1) viable business plan 2) country. In this case
> is a contradiction.
>
> > BTW .. if you would like to see an example of courses offered for OOo
> > go here: http://theingots.org/courses/course/category.php?id=3 . If
> > you are asked to login, just login as guest. Choose Introduction to
> > OpenOffice.org 2 for Win and Linxu
>
> The lesson outline looks good, would not take much to update for 3.2 or
> 3.3. The problem is that would good would their certificate do someone
> in the US, I have no idea how it may work for you.
>
> Andy

The certification would not mean too much in N. America, not sure for 
US, but in Canada, the responsibility of education falls under the 
jurisdiction of the provinces (and territories). I imagine it would mean 
something if you were to get some kind of ISO certification if it could 
apply here, but there is no section for ISO software (not at least that 
I know) that exist at all.

You could make arrangements for the creation of a 
certification/accreditation programme from a University. That could 
easily be arranged as an e-course, but the costs would definitely be 
LARGE as compared to those quoted on the Ingots site.

Another option would be a TDF-run certification programme very much like 
that of RedHat 
(https://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/Red_Hat_Training_Catalog.pdf). This is 
what I would favour. It could be run as a "for-profit" endeavour run 
under either the documentfoundation.ca or documentfoundation.us banner. 
This would eliminate any problems with associated with the 
not-for-profit documentfoundation.org. Putting up a Moodle LCMS site of 
our own as member of the TDF/LibO membership would not be beyond our 
expertise nor our membership capabilities. We have the membership and we 
have the experts. TDF/Certification

Running a certification programme always helps in defining and promoting 
the legitimacy of a company's software/hardware product confidence.

Marc


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