I setup a quick google spreadsheet to collect emails in lieu of a mailing list for now.
https://docs.google.com/a/boundlessgeo.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AishiXFd06bHdGl4ZE92Y09TbkU1TVBKTm8zMmNmZmc&usp=drive_web#gid=0 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > It seems like a good time to get a US / North American User Group > going since there has been a serious uptick in interest in QGIS on > this side of the Atlantic. I've talked to quite a few people privately > about this, but figured now is the time to bring it to the wider user > community. > > So, my employer (Boundless Geo) would like to help organize an > inaugural User Group Meeting on April 11th, the day before the State > of the Map Conference in Washington DC. This seems like a good > opportunity to get everyone together when lots of spatially minded > people will be in town. The consensus is that we could arrange space > in the District during the day and have a happy hour nearby that > night. > > I'm not sure what the procedure is for organizing a User Group (or if > there even is one), but we can take on the tasks of setting up a > mailing list, website etc. If the PSC can let us know what hoops we > should jump through, or things we should think about, please let us > know. We will be reaching out to lots of people who are very excited > about QGIS but haven't really joined the community and try to get the > involved. > > Please contact me off-list if you are interested in helping with this > effort and as soon as we get a mailing list going I'll follow up with > a link here. > > Hoping to see some of you in DC in April! > > Jeff _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
