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

On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 20:18 -0600, Dave Johnson wrote:
> Ian, I wanted to get certified via the "theingots.org" web-page but
> alas I cannot. I am in the United States. How cam I get certified so I
> can effectively market LibO here in the United States? I want to offer
> training and support to my customers.

Contact Bryant Patten at the National Center for Open Source in
Education. He is trained as an INGOT assessor trainer and is based in
the NE of the USA (Hanover).  Web site at http://www.ncose.org/ has
contact details top right.

If this isn't going to work for you get back to me and I'll see what can
be done. 

Gabriel Gurley who is also involved with the certification project is US
based and trained as an assessor trainer.

If you are outside Europe and can't make the meeting on the 28th
January, don't worry, we will find ways to include you. The meeting on
the 28th is simply a focus to pull a critical mass together, it is not
essential in order to participate.

> What can I do?
>
> On Nov 7, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Ian wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:14 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > > Can folks outside of Europe help?
> > >
> > > Is there going to be any remote-participation capacity? At least a
> > > skype group call with a mic and speakers in the room?
> > >
> > > - Evan Leibovitch
> >
> > Hi Evan,
> >
> > We want everyone possible to participate. The main reason for holding
> > the meeting in Berlin is that it is central to more people who have a
> > chance of getting EU funding to pay their expenses to attend. It would
> > be great to get people from other parts of the world to attend but
> > unfortunately we have no finance at this point to pay for expenses. We
> > certainly can have skype at minimum. I'm waiting for Manfred Reiter to
> > come back on the venue. As soon as we know I'll work out what conference
> > facilities we can do - Maybe a video stream to the web. I'll also draw
> > up a draft agenda so others can contribute too.
> >
> > I reiterate that we want people in Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, India,
> > Africa, Australia etc etc. This will only work as a means of
> > significantly funding developers if we can make it a global effort and
> > we can devise a means of sustaining the people doing the training and
> > assessing.
> >
> > > On 30 October 2010 17:53, Ian <ian.lynch@theingots.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 15:34 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 17:47 +0100, Ian wrote:
> > > > > > http://theingots.org/community/LO_OOo_cert
> > > > > Hi Ian,
> > > > >
> > > > > I think what you have been doing is wonderful and really think you are
> > > > > correct to pursue this as including members from both the OOo and LO
> > > > > communities.
> > > >
> > > > The logic is that we will be certificating a common set of skills and
> > > > knowledge so there is no real reason to make a distinction. We might
> > > > also do K-Office :-).
> > > >
> > > > The thing is to try and get to anyone who is interested in training and
> > > > related support so if anyone reading this says "this isn't for me"
> > > > please consider if you know someone who might be interested please pass
> > > > the message on. Networking is the power of the community!
> > > >
> > > > > Best wishes for your success,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your kind words.
> > > >
> > > > > Drew
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