Chamilo LMS How to become an official provider process

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How to become an official provider process
This article also exists publicly at http://support.chamilo.org/projects/chamilo/wiki/Howto_become_an_official_provider
Becoming an effective member
Before becoming official providers, organizations must
- be registered as member of the Chamilo Association
- be a company (at this point, the association considers individual/freelance members cannot single-handedly represent the
Chamilo association in a way that is reliable enough)
Passing the exam
- employees have to pass it with minimum 75%. For small-size companies: 1 employee has to pass the exam; for medium-size
companies: 2 employees have to pass the exam; for large-size companies: 3 employees have to pass the exam.
- 50 questions (split into 5 categories), to be passed in 45 minutes time (web querying allowed)
- there is a registration cost of 50€/person for the exam, payable to the association's account with the mention: exam fee - [name
of company] - [name of person]. Would the person taking the exam fail, this registration cost has to be paid to the association's
account again. The registration cost covers the work implied by the revision of the exam's results by the secretary.
Contributing
The wannabe official provider has to provide one of the following (as a minimum)
- 50 pages original documentation in English, under Creative Commons BY-SA license
- 80 pages carefully translated existing documentation, under Creative Commons BY-SA license
- one considerably modified style (involves at least 100 modified lines in CSS from existing styles), under Creative Commons
BY-SA license
- one new plugin (minimum of 200 lines, real added value), GPLv3-licensed
- a modification to an existing plugin (real added value), GPLv3-licensed
- 20 patches to existing bugs in the software
This contribution will not be considered part of the retribution system but has to be approved by the board of directors.
Repetition
After the first acceptation as official provider, the proof has to be made, each year, that the official provider wants to contribute to the
project, so the same (almost) requirements have to be confirmed again, each year. The exam itself will be adapted each year to
ensure the official providers keep up to date with the Chamilo software's and Association's evolution.
It is a privilege of the Chamilo Association's board to decide whether an official provider, in view of his contributions of the last 12
months, can be spared from taking the renewal exam and providing an official contribution. It is understood that the normal
contribution is to be considered as a separate contribution to the ones that enter into account for the annual discounts to the official
providers fee.
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