Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
Personally I would like to strongly encourage to put any tutorial style articles into our QGIS-Documentation project as there are a number of advantages: I clearly like that idea, but I guess the blog might be good for a first version and to get more exposure, and then, with a bit of polishing, the most interesting posts can be moved to the documentation project. I am thinking about doing it once I have a few tutorials, maybe modifying them to be linked somehow, so as to get somekind of bigger tutorial/workshop. Thanks for the suggestion! Victor ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
Hi On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: For the main part of your proposal, are you thinking of something in the manner of www.r-bloggers.com? It's a really useful resource, with enough posts from enough varied sources to be really worth following. qgis.org/planet/ could fit the bill - with more content from more sites. Well, that is a rather big thing! I am not thinking of an aggregator, but more like a blog written by several people, with a common standard of quality and a common subject (In my case, as I said, i would like to incude tipstrick for QGIS, not just any QGIS-related news) I see it more like a book of chapters with different authors and an editor (in this case all contributors would be editors, but there will be some reviewing or some guidelines, etc) Spanish readers might be familiar with the amazings.es blog, which is the reference blog in terms of science in Spain, and which is written by a group of science bloggers that collaborate on this while they also write their own blogs. I was thinking about something like that... Thanks for the interest Sorry for th elate reply to this thread. We actually used to have blog.qgis.org where developers could (and did) write blog posts too. Its now defunct because we found it easier to write to our own blogs and use the aggregator. Personally I would like to strongly encourage to put any tutorial style articles into our QGIS-Documentation project as there are a number of advantages: - the articles can form part of formal training materials - the content can be maintained and updated to reflect new versions of QGIS/SEXTANTE - it will automatically become part of the translation framework - the information can become part of context help within QGIS in the future Of course this does not work well for casual 'ah look at this cool thing I did today' type posts, but it is really good for any more systematic documentation and tutorial materials. Regards Tim Regards Seems like the QGIS wiki needs serious editorial leadership and editing (and probably some search-engine optimisation) more than anything else; I personally find it horrible to use the Redmine system, too. Maybe that's the best place to focus efforts? -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Proposal-for-QGIS-related-blog-tp5008549p5008816.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) == Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
For the main part of your proposal, are you thinking of something in the manner of www.r-bloggers.com? It's a really useful resource, with enough posts from enough varied sources to be really worth following. qgis.org/planet/ could fit the bill - with more content from more sites. Well, that is a rather big thing! I am not thinking of an aggregator, but more like a blog written by several people, with a common standard of quality and a common subject (In my case, as I said, i would like to incude tipstrick for QGIS, not just any QGIS-related news) I see it more like a book of chapters with different authors and an editor (in this case all contributors would be editors, but there will be some reviewing or some guidelines, etc) Spanish readers might be familiar with the amazings.es blog, which is the reference blog in terms of science in Spain, and which is written by a group of science bloggers that collaborate on this while they also write their own blogs. I was thinking about something like that... Thanks for the interest Regards Seems like the QGIS wiki needs serious editorial leadership and editing (and probably some search-engine optimisation) more than anything else; I personally find it horrible to use the Redmine system, too. Maybe that's the best place to focus efforts? -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Proposal-for-QGIS-related-blog-tp5008549p5008816.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
Hi Thanks for you replies! I am aware of the QGIS planet, but the idea I had was a bit different. It does not replace the aggregator, of course, it is just another blog, but created by a group of people instead of just one, which would allow to have a more homogeneous stlye (not just in terms of appearance, as the aggregator can do, but in terms of approach, quality, etc). I have seen that idea in other fields, where several bloggers (in many cases, having themselves very popular blogs that they keep on writing in parallel) associate to create a new one. Anyway, I have ideas for many posts and I would like to start this kind of QGIS cookbook blog, so if anyone is intererested in joining, just let me know. And of course, please keep on writing in your blogs, you are all doing an awesome work :-) Best Victor 2012/10/15 Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at: Hi, I would opt to stick with our current solution of distributed blogs and the planet aggregator. From where I stand, it makes no sense for me to start posting my QGIS posts somewhere else than on my blog. I think others feel the same way. Also, it would blow up our web infrastructure one again ... Best wishes, Anita On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:33 AM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: If you go forward, don't forget to ask to have it added to planetgs.com and planet osgeo. On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about other things, but since there are other people doing something similar (and writing really great posts), I think it would be a good idea to coordinate this a bit. To make it short...anyone fancy the idea of creating a collective blog to write small tutorials, recipes, etc, about QGIS? I think that would be good for the QGIS community, and it should not be hard to manage. It wouldn't be an official thing (by the way, is the official QGIS blog dead?), but with all the people that writes about QGIS, and with a little effort to make good posts and give them some homogeneity, it can become a reference point for the community of QGIS users and developers. It might be just a silly idea, so feel free to tell me your opinion on this. Cheers Victor ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
On 10/15/2012 01:28 AM, Vincent Picavet wrote: Isn't the QGIS Planet intention to be exactly that ? http://qgis.org/planet/ By the way, that one is different from this one: http://planet.qgis.org/planet/ Are these two different applications (the number of aggregated blogs are different for both). http://planet.qgis.org/planet/ is showing some minor css issues here with me in Firefox. Richard ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
The planet is a REALLY useful resource of experts knowledge and should not only be maintained but also be extended if possible: I also have a candidate proposal: http://press.underdiverwaterman.com/feed/ He has nice little techy articles which could help a lot for getting deeper into complex things. Cheers Bernd Am 15.10.2012, 07:51 Uhr, schrieb Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at: Hi, I would opt to stick with our current solution of distributed blogs and the planet aggregator. From where I stand, it makes no sense for me to start posting my QGIS posts somewhere else than on my blog. I think others feel the same way. Also, it would blow up our web infrastructure one again ... Best wishes, Anita On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:33 AM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: If you go forward, don't forget to ask to have it added to planetgs.com and planet osgeo. On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about other things, but since there are other people doing something similar (and writing really great posts), I think it would be a good idea to coordinate this a bit. To make it short...anyone fancy the idea of creating a collective blog to write small tutorials, recipes, etc, about QGIS? I think that would be good for the QGIS community, and it should not be hard to manage. It wouldn't be an official thing (by the way, is the official QGIS blog dead?), but with all the people that writes about QGIS, and with a little effort to make good posts and give them some homogeneity, it can become a reference point for the community of QGIS users and developers. It might be just a silly idea, so feel free to tell me your opinion on this. Cheers Victor ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Bernd Vogelgesang * Siedlerstrasse 2 * 91083 Baiersdorf * +49-9133-825374 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
For the main part of your proposal, are you thinking of something in the manner of www.r-bloggers.com? It's a really useful resource, with enough posts from enough varied sources to be really worth following. qgis.org/planet/ could fit the bill - with more content from more sites. Seems like the QGIS wiki needs serious editorial leadership and editing (and probably some search-engine optimisation) more than anything else; I personally find it horrible to use the Redmine system, too. Maybe that's the best place to focus efforts? -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Proposal-for-QGIS-related-blog-tp5008549p5008816.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
Hi all I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about other things, but since there are other people doing something similar (and writing really great posts), I think it would be a good idea to coordinate this a bit. To make it short...anyone fancy the idea of creating a collective blog to write small tutorials, recipes, etc, about QGIS? I think that would be good for the QGIS community, and it should not be hard to manage. It wouldn't be an official thing (by the way, is the official QGIS blog dead?), but with all the people that writes about QGIS, and with a little effort to make good posts and give them some homogeneity, it can become a reference point for the community of QGIS users and developers. It might be just a silly idea, so feel free to tell me your opinion on this. Cheers Victor ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
Hi Victor, I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about other things, but since there are other people doing something similar (and writing really great posts), I think it would be a good idea to coordinate this a bit. To make it short...anyone fancy the idea of creating a collective blog to write small tutorials, recipes, etc, about QGIS? I think that would be good for the QGIS community, and it should not be hard to manage. It wouldn't be an official thing (by the way, is the official QGIS blog dead?), but with all the people that writes about QGIS, and with a little effort to make good posts and give them some homogeneity, it can become a reference point for the community of QGIS users and developers. Isn't the QGIS Planet intention to be exactly that ? http://qgis.org/planet/ Only difference is that posts are only aggregated there, avoiding the need of yet another one dedicated tool. Vincent ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
If you go forward, don't forget to ask to have it added to planetgs.com and planet osgeo. On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about other things, but since there are other people doing something similar (and writing really great posts), I think it would be a good idea to coordinate this a bit. To make it short...anyone fancy the idea of creating a collective blog to write small tutorials, recipes, etc, about QGIS? I think that would be good for the QGIS community, and it should not be hard to manage. It wouldn't be an official thing (by the way, is the official QGIS blog dead?), but with all the people that writes about QGIS, and with a little effort to make good posts and give them some homogeneity, it can become a reference point for the community of QGIS users and developers. It might be just a silly idea, so feel free to tell me your opinion on this. Cheers Victor ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog
Hi, I would opt to stick with our current solution of distributed blogs and the planet aggregator. From where I stand, it makes no sense for me to start posting my QGIS posts somewhere else than on my blog. I think others feel the same way. Also, it would blow up our web infrastructure one again ... Best wishes, Anita On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:33 AM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: If you go forward, don't forget to ask to have it added to planetgs.com and planet osgeo. On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about other things, but since there are other people doing something similar (and writing really great posts), I think it would be a good idea to coordinate this a bit. To make it short...anyone fancy the idea of creating a collective blog to write small tutorials, recipes, etc, about QGIS? I think that would be good for the QGIS community, and it should not be hard to manage. It wouldn't be an official thing (by the way, is the official QGIS blog dead?), but with all the people that writes about QGIS, and with a little effort to make good posts and give them some homogeneity, it can become a reference point for the community of QGIS users and developers. It might be just a silly idea, so feel free to tell me your opinion on this. Cheers Victor ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
