[Bf-education] Blender Certification - Pushing Forward

[Jason van Gumster]

We're stagnating a bit here,

I think that - for now - in the interest of getting more people
involved and applying for certification, we should make hosting on the
wiki an optional thing.  The Certification Team can still maintain
records of submission materials and discussions regarding certification
for future review and people wishing to gain publicity by adding to the
educational material we have available can do so if they please.

Of course, if this doesn't work out or ends up being unmanageable,
we'll find that out and make revisions as necessary.

In the meantime, I'll go and update the wiki to reflect the direction
we're going and what remains to be done (that way we can also better
track what kind of progress we've made, too).  I'll notify the list when
that's set and we can get this baby off the ground.

Wheeee!

  -Jason

"Rui Campos" <rcampos at fusemail.com> wrote:

> Heya all,
> 
> My idea was that we could keep the videos/written tutorials online as
> way to get more educational content and at the same time show the
> trainer abilities (this would also work as publicity for them).
> 
> The Wiki surely wouldn't become a mess, at least if there is a
> specific place to upload the files and links. Most of this work would
> have to be done by the applicant himself, so I see no big hassle for
> the bf-education team on this.
> 
> Keeping things on blender.org server would mean we keep a record of
> everything. Although its easy to publish things online these days, you
> cannot really manage if they will keep online in the future or not.
> 
> As for people that want to make money out of their tutorials, I
> encourage them and would like to see more and more of these. But, for
> the certification itself, they could provide a small part of this and
> make it publicly available, most of them already do this as
> publicity, having just a small part of their videos downloadable.
> 
> Still, its not that big of a deal, its just that we could benefit from
> having more educational material online and surely it will be good
> material as these are supposed teachers/professionals who are
> applying.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> 
> -- Rui --
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender Certification - Pushing Forward
> Date: Wed, June 6, 2007 9:53
> From: "Ton Roosendaal" <ton at blender.org>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm all in for freedom of choice here. It's not a core value for a
> > trainer/training support program to demand all members to submit
> > open content. We should encourage it though, and definitely *only*
> > accept free/open content in our own wiki and download or hosting
> > service.
> >
> > How about that?
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> >
> > On 6 Jun, 2007, at 9:48, macouno wrote:
> >
> > > "So, here's a question to the whole list: do we require that
> > > submitted materials be made public or should that be an option
> > > that the trainer chooses once he or she is certified?"
> > >
> > > Personally I think making everything public would be more trouble
> > > than it's
> > > worth. I imagine lots of different types of materials to be
> > > submitted, which
> > > would subsequently make the wiki a mess. But I would 'reserve the
> > > right to
> > > publish submitted materials', just in case... that way you can
> > > judge it on a
> > > case by case basis, or change your mind. I would not emphasize
> > > publication
> > > though. Its easy enough for someone to publish their things online
> > > already,
> > > that does not need to be the job of the education board.
> > >
> > > BTW, I sense somehow that people consider the certification
> > > process to be
> > > rather fast. As if people who register/pay, would have the
> > > materials pre-made and ready to submit. I expect that some
> > > enthusiastic people would
> > > register, and then realise they have to submit something...
> > > educators are
> > > like everyone else and don't read websites any better either. I
> > > would build
> > > in a 1 month buffer between registration & submission of
> materials, so
> > > that
> > > those that don't have it ready get some time to make something.
> > >
> > > Dolf
> > >
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> >
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