[Bf-education] Blender Certification - Pushing Forward

[Jason van Gumster]

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your input.  To account for cases such as yours, I think the
application form will offer the option to either upload a tutorial for
review or provide a link.  You would probably simply give a link or
upload the file, but indicate (via checkbox) that you do *not* wish to
have the file hosted on the Blender wiki.

Regarding the "what's in it for me" question, that's probably something
you'll have to answer for your self.  Certification in our case means
that you are "approved" by the Blender Foundation to train and instruct
people on how to use Blender.  It's an "I'm official" stamp that lends
you credibility by your association with the foundation and a credible
third-party reference.  Also, from a more shrewd perspective, it's an
external reference to you and your site from a site with heavy traffic.

I think the above things are worth paying for, don't you?  We intend
for these certifications to have value, to mean something.  If you have
any ideas on how we might do that even more, please share them.

Thanks!

  Jason

"Roy Simmons" <roytheartist at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have re-created my (fairly) succesfull Tutorial DVD into a form for
> the web. I hope I would be able to submit in this way, currently
> there is no advertising on the site, but there may be in future. I
> would be happy to be linked to, of course, but may not be so inclined
> for the flash tutorial course to be hosted elsewhere. Another point,
> that no-one seems to have addressed, if I have to pay for
> certification, whats in it for me? I am not sure if it would attract
> more visitors to my site, what do others think?
> http://learnblender3d.com/
> 
> Roy.