I'm calling for anyone interested in a means of generating a sustainable and substantial revenue for the new Foundation to attend a meeting at the end of January probably in Germany. This will be a preparatory meeting for submitting a Transfer of Innovation application to the EU for 300,000 Euro to support training and business development of LibreOffice certification. National Agencies in the EU will pay expenses up to 1000 Euros for attending the meeting. (Google for national agency Leonardo Da Vinci Transfer of Innovation in your country language) Ideally we would have a partner from each EU member state. We already have partners in Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain but others are welcome from these and other countries. Grants have to be applied for 8 weeks before any meeting which is why I'm proposing late January.
At this meeting we can decide the basic strategy and I will train all delegates as assessor trainers and how to use the technology to collect evidence and award certification. I will have accredited the certification through the UK regulators by this time (it's in progress but bureaucracy takes time :-) ) which also references it to the European Qualifications Framework which is the highest priority this year for the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. The impact depends on your support! This is how ECDL/ICDL started and they did 9 million certificates last year in 43 countries. This is easily enough to sustain the Foundation independently but we need it to scale and for that we need to extend to as many countries as possible as quickly as possible. If you ever dreamed of setting up your own business based on FOSS this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for. We can also provide help and support with market strategy. We have already been successful in getting 2 grants for INGOTs and certificating learners with Special Needs so we know what to do. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted