[Local-chapters] Editable Servers

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 12:35:42 GMT 2010


This talk of OSM certification seems outside the scope of what local
chapters are all about.

There's the osm-professional mailing list if you want to discuss
certifications: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osm-professional/


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jaak Laineste <jaak at nutiteq.com> wrote:

> > > expensive) courses and tests to become DB Master, actually also
> > > Wikipedia has a system of admin levels. My understanding is that OSM
> > > is very centralized, only a couple of really core technical people
> > > having more than normal editor permissions? I would like to have the
> > > "OSM certified professional" badge.
> >
> > While this is a good idea, the courses/certifications, but I don't think
> this
> > should be enforced on LC's.
>
> I have here actually several suggestions here:
> 1) it would be nice to have certification system for technical (and
> non-technical) expertise on OSM, and related/required technologies
> (PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Mapnik, JOSM etc)
> 2) people with proven expertise (certification) could safely have extra
> permissions. E.g. highest level could have direct access to the main
> PostgreSQL database, lowest level could come with just 1000 edits.
> 3) LCs could be rated by what certifications does its members have.
> 4) LC qualification could be based not only number of members, but also
> based on their certifications. Small LC consisting from 5 top-level
> OSM-experts in Latvia could be equal to one with 25 basic contributors in
> Indonesia.
>
>  The certification could be also additional revenue source for OSMF and for
> some of the most active experts.
>
>  Hard requirement to have x number of x level certified experts in every LC
> would be possible only after certification system has proved to work well
> for some time; and this would take 12 month at least.
>
> Jaak
>
>
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