On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Mats Elfström <mats.elfst...@giskraft.com> wrote:
> 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. > > > Mats, what's the problem here? No need for flames. Does anybody refused your help in spreading the word on FB? I'm not on FB and I will probably never be, but I've absolutely nothing against you promoting QGIS on FB, if you feel like doing it, just do it. What I don't understand is why you criticize this ML, if you don't find it useful or you don't like it, just unsubscribe. -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it
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