I agree with Alex, about the mailing list; splitting lists = splitting and losing knowledge, information and solutions;
Best regards Pedro Monteiro 2014-01-28 Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > On 01/22/2014 02:01 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > > 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. > >> > > There really isn't a procedure that I've seen. I think most people are > served by local user groups of FOSS or GIS origin. North America might > even be too big of a geographic area for what many traditionally call a > user group. I see a good role being to help ensure Birds of a > Feather/Local meets whenever good related conferences roll into town: > FOSS4G, FOSS4GNA, NACIS, State of the Map, URISA (e.g. WAURISA, CalGIS) > etc... > > Note the comparison in the EU is the hackfests which is really a lot of > developers and power users getting together to work on QGIS. > > >> 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 > > My personal opinion is that beyond meetups coinciding with other confs, > and possibly organizing QGIS hackfests (can be user oriented) that most > other functions of such a group overlap either with QGIS' existing > infrastructure (e.g. do we really need our own mailing list since the > main QGIS ones are in English except to discuss regional events?) or > OSGeo chapters. > > Guess I'm mostly hesitant about splitting the FOSS4G community > mindshare, I don't use QGIS in isolation and never would (unlike some > monolithic software packages), so to me leaving out Postgis, Spatialite, > GRASS, (Everything else in Processing) kinda misses the mark. > > But I do get the notion that some things simplified can be more > attractive to a general audience (ie hook in the QGIS users out there > somehow). > > Thanks, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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