+1 with Otto, many many trainers do still almost all material from scratch, we loose a lot of good contributors, and we loose money also (as a funder).
We started courses last year and pushed the will to have teachers contribute to bugtracking and contribute to open source version of the docs. This is a change for most trainers that live and gain contracts with their own material (pdf, slides...). Collaborative open source philosophy has not yet touched most of them! Our first attempt of contribution was to translate in French the QGIS tutorial. Now that we have transifex on, that sounds al lot more feasable for non dev's trainers. Anyway, we had to change a lot the manual and training course because our internal use cas is very specific. So, for generic courses, this seems reasonable as a funder to add a small amount of money for modification and translation of QGIS courses. Still, that requires english speakers, time, and a compatible schedule for QGIS doc builds.. For more specific courses, I'm more in favor of a catalog hosting them in qgis.org, with a mandatory open source licence, so that they could be freely reused. I also think that our Governement has its own training services, and could push their materials in QGIS doc infrastructure? That need some thinking for sure, maybe not pushing english as default langage for some use cases, which could allow reuse and translation only for those who need it.. Ideas on how to have trainers contribute and share, from all langages, for all kind of courses ? Régis -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Stress-about-release-plans-tp5152191p5152393.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer