Hi On 10/16/2016 09:06 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi > >> On 06 Oct 2016, at 10:26 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it >> <mailto:cavall...@faunalia.it>> wrote: >> >> >> One more thing we have been discussing is to include a link to that info >> directly in the QGIS interface, for an easier discovery by the hundreds >> of thousands users that never visit our blogs, ML, etc. >> Of course we should find the right balance between visibility and >> unobtrusiveness. > > Given how effective our post-download pop up is on the web site, I think > that using our first open page to 'speak' to our users is definitely > something to resurrect. It would be great to provide: > > * a list of recent projects (as we have now) > * a list of recent blog articles from planet.qgis.org > <http://planet.qgis.org>
The original welcome page had that but it wasn't well received, so I removed it again in https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/95c377a607757b4cc9d03a6e399b5516d0b44dcd > * a list of current crowd funding projects and their funding progress > * a panel for us to directly send notifications to users e.g. 'QGIS > 2.14.7 is out, please upgrade!' That's already in place. Information is read from https://ubuntu.qgis.org/version.txt It could be improved to fetch different files based on LTR/Non-LTR. > * links for funding and sponsoring QGIS In general I am in favor of adding all this to the welcome page. It can be used to unobtrusively raise awareness and it's easy to disable if some people don't like it. Matthias > > I think it is also worth speaking to Nyall about his crowd funding > experiences - last I chatted to him he had some doubts as to whether it > is a really effective tool at the moment. Perhaps getting the publicity > on the app opening view might fix that.... > > Regards > > Tim > > > > >> All the best. >> >> -- >> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://www.faunalia.eu/> >> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html >> https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > — > > > > > > > > > *Tim Sutton* > > *Co-founder:* Kartoza > *Project chair:* QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org> > > Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open > source: > > Desktop GIS programming services > Geospatial web development > GIS Training > Consulting Services > > *Skype*: timlinux > *IRC:* timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net <http://freenode.net> > > Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer