[OSGeo Africa] Formation of a QGIS User Group - South Africa

[immob19 at gmail.com]

I've invited you to fill in the following form:
QGIS User Group - South Africa

To fill it in, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXMnHC_SkWuJViKjhNCCkvM8uBohQlojoBnLYOd48cR-Pqeg/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Dear OSGeo Member,

Being an active QGIS power user and great QGIS fan myself I, in  
collaboration with Kartoza (http://www.kartoza.com), have decided to  
investigate the feasibility of starting a QGIS user group for South Africa  
(maybe even Southern Africa) to promote the use of QGIS and other Free and  
Open-Source GIS (FOSSGIS) applications in the ever increasing market of  
closed-source and mostly expensive GIS software. The user group should be  
mainly focussed on the functionality of QGIS (presentation and discussion  
on new functions after new releases), the exchange of success stories,  
proposals for new functions/plug-ins, sharing of problems/bugs and  
workarounds and, last but not least, contributions (financial and/or  
development) for the great development team around the world.

To set up a user group is a huge task and requires a lot of organisation.  
The plan for now is to firstly gauge the support for such a group, which  
could start quite informal in the economic centres of Cape Town and  
surrounds and Gauteng, maybe twice a year, in the form of a get-together,  
mainly to get ideas on the format of the meetings and the number and  
background of interested QGIS users. Then a more formal structure could be  
set up by a number of volunteers to conform with rules and organisation of  
the other user groups around the world  
(http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html).

We are also planning an OSGeo + QGIS +++ conference for the end of June  
2017 in Johannesburg. So it would be great to have a few local QGIS user  
group meetings leading up to that. Our first informal get-together could  
therefore be in October or November this year already!

The purpose of this email is therefore to find out if you are interested in  
joining such a user group by filling in the short form below or clicking on  
the link at the top of the mail to fill in the form in your web browser.

Regards
Immo

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Immo F. Blecher
Street: 3 Briony Close, Noordhoek, Cape Town, South Africa
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