Hi! I am sad to say that I disagree strongly with the views expressed in some replies to my earlier post.
I am a kid of 63 who has found that Facebook and Twitter are important and invaluable sources and platforms for both communication and information. And kids of a younger age are, and must be our target audience. I do not know about you abroad, but in Sweden there is an alarming lack of students and graduates in the geospatial sciences. It is now hard to find educated young people to fill the gaps when us old kids retire. I try to evangelize QGIS as good as I can and have opportunity to, and an FB page needs no explanation, while mailing lists are an unknown entity. Among younger kids, i mean. Second, I am a volunteer. I run a Facebook page for QGIS in swedish, and try to pick up news on QGIS development and QGIS use of a general interest. Time is a factor, of course, but using FB I need not spend any time to maintain userlists, login procedures, web servers etc. I can spend the time I can offer to maintain the content of the page, which is what should matter in the end. An I do not think that 20000+ FB QGIS likers deserve to be so lightly disregarded. Cheers, Mats.E 2016-07-18 14:20 GMT+02:00 Mats Elfström <mats.elfst...@giskraft.com>: > Hi! > I am sad to say that I disagree strongly with the views expressed in some > replies to my post. > > I am a kid of 63 who has found that Facebook and Twitter are invaluable > sources and platforms for both communication and information. > And kids of a younger age are, and must be our target audience. I do not > know about you abroad, but in Sweden there is an alarming lack of students > and graduates in the geospatial sciences. It is now hard to find educated > young people to fill the gaps when us old kids retire. > > Second, I am a volunteer. I run a Facebook page for QGIS in swedish, and > try to pick up news on QGIS development and QGIS use of a general interest. > Time is a factor, of course, but using FB I need not spend any time to > maintain userlists, login procedures, web servers etc. I can spend the time > I can offer to maintain the content of the page, which is what should > matter in the end. > An I do not think that 20000 FB users deserve to be so easily disregarded. > > Cheers, Mats.E > > 2016-07-18 13:02 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com>: > >> I, along with some others, manage the Facebook and Twitter accounts. It's >> not normally a issue I have just been a bit slow with it lately. >> >> Both are updated now. >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neum...@carto.net> >> wrote: >> >>> I am not sure if Facebook is our target audience. Isn't this more for >>> the kids? >>> >>> However, if someone volunteers to work on that - feel free to do it. >>> >>> On Twitter there is probably more news on QGIS - but I agree with Strk >>> that the mailing lists should be our primary channels - properly archive - >>> no restrictions - free for everyone without having to pay with your >>> personal data. >>> >>> Andreas >>> >>> On 2016-07-18 11:51, Mats Elfström wrote: >>> >>> >>> This is what 20 774 QGIS likers on Facebook get as QGIS news. >>> >>> >>> Surely they are entitled to a bit more attention? >>> Why do you cling to old century mailing lists and bulletin board >>> technology? >>> How many subscribe to this list? >>> >>> Regards, Mats.E >>> -- >>> >>> >>> *GisKraft*, GIS och webbkonsult >>> Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden >>> tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-user mailing list >>> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >>> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-user mailing list >>> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >>> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > > > -- > > > *GisKraft*, GIS och webbkonsult > Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden > tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com > -- *GisKraft*, GIS och webbkonsult Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com
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