Hi Joshua Out of curiosity, what is the link between minetest and QGIS? I have seen tools to create Minecraft worlds with QGIS / GIS layers, are you doing something similar with Minetest? If so could you share your workflows for doing that?
Regards Tim > On 20 May 2019, at 21:01, Joshua <[email protected]> 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 >>> <https://discord.gg/9eA7P6U> >> Hi Joshua, >> >> You can sent me the url ([email protected] <mailto:[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) >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software)> >> [1] https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS <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 — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Ex Project chair: 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 I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link <https://calendly.com/timlinux> to make finding time easy.
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