Hi Joshua, Yep, had a little talk about it with others. Will add it as soon as I have some free time. Regards, Richard
On 20/05/2019 22.01, Joshua wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I sent a reply direct to your email a couple of days ago but it may have > endned up in your spam folder. Sending it here again just in case. > > /Here is what I sent along with the Discord webhook URL.../ > > I too believe in open source principles and have been helping my son > contribute to Minetest (LGPL). There is a strong presence of Minetest > contributers on Discord so I set up an account there. The devs did not > want to make Discord an official communication HUB of Minetest, though > they understood it's importance to the community and allowed a Github > feed to be sent to there. There is an active presence of like minded > folks on the Minetest Discord where users discuss modding of the game, > ask for help from other members and share their works. > > I then looked for a QGIS Discord server but couldn't find one. I decided > to make one for other people who wanted the same thing. In just a couple > of days since launching the server we now have 28 members /(now 35)/. > > Discord currently has 130 million registered users and is growing. Many > people would happily join a Discord QGIS server because they already use > Discord and log in everyday. And many of these people would not join > other QGIS communication sites because it would be another app they need > to use or another website they need to log into each day. > > My vision for this server is to have it function much the same way it > does for Minetest. A place to hang out, ask questions, contribute and > showcase work. Having a Github feed would allow members to keep > appraised of the latest core development and perhaps inspire them to > contribute by making their own pull requests. I believe this Discord > server will have a net positive effect for QGIS. > > > Regards, > > Joshua > > > On 18/05/19 11:20 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: >> On 18/05/2019 04.28, Joshua wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I started an unofficial QGIS Discord server and would like one of our >>> channels to have a live feed of Github commits. A webhook would have to >>> be set up by a QGIS github admin. Is this possible? >>> >>> I can provide the Discord webhook in a direct email or Slack DM to the >>> admin who will need it. >>> >>> The discord server is at: https://discord.gg/9eA7P6U >> Hi Joshua, >> >> You can sent me the url ([email protected]), but maybe we first have to >> discuss here a little what would be the benefit (for us as QGIS community). >> >> I'm not familiar with Discord, but Wikipedia tells me: >> "Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application and digital >> distribution platform designed for video gaming communities..." >> >> I like the idea of non devs having some insight about what is going on >> (though we do have github itself, and gitter [1]), and which makes me >> wonder how many communication channels we want to serve), and if it >> would not be more appropriate to use some FOSS tool for this? >> >> Can you tell us a little more about your plans? >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard Duivenvoorde >> >> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software) >> [1] https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS >> _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
