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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And my question was not directed to a particular person. It was just an observation. Anyhow I was expecting that kind of response.
Apologies if anyone was offended. And I ask that my questions be ignored. I am well answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00B0F0">Luxon
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tim Sutton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 September 2015 01:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Africa local chapter discussions <africa@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) <<a href="mailto:L.Nhamo@cgiar.org" target="_blank">L.Nhamo@cgiar.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This seems more like a splinter/ elitist QGIS forum being formed here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Haha I guess QGIS is maturing...its the first time we were ever called elitist in my living memory...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sorry if my observations are wrong but what are the aims of this new group which are different from the current group?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There is no new group, only new and diverse channels of comunication....its good to use different channels - some people like the immediacy of online chat, some like the ability to digest their
convesations via email. I was only pointing to the QGIS channel by way of example of what we would get if we would get if osgeo-africa formed a chat room on
<a href="http://gitter.im" target="_blank">gitter.im</a> (and also similar to what you would get on slack since the experience is almost the same).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Is it still affiliated to GISSA? </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And by the way forming special interest groups is not a bad thing (I'm not sure why you used such pejorative language above) - if people want to share experiences and dive into detail in
one particular topic area it's just a normal and healthy process of a community. osgeo-africa list is itself an example of this - otherwise we would all be subscribed to the parent osgeo list and not have regional chapters. And yes I believe there is still
some affiliation with GISSA - Gavin could probably answer better exactly what that is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Have a good weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sent:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">To:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Subject:
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those wanting to join the gitter QGIS chat room, you can go here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If there is interest I could set up an osgeo africa one (sorry to usurp your Slack promulgation Jeff haha :-) ). The reason I don't like slack is that their subscription fees are terribly expensive - or at the least pretty confusing… <a href="https://slack.com/pricing" target="_blank">https://slack.com/pricing</a>
whereas gitter is linked right into github which is nice and is free for public repos).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:34, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I don't monitor this list frequently so please e-mail me directly.<br>
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On Thursday, September 3, 2015, Jeff McKenna<br>
<<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>>><br>
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On 2015-09-03 9:04 AM, Charles Rethman wrote:<br>
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Hi everybody,<br>
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This list has been really quiet lately… I’m wondering why? Is it<br>
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email is so last-century and we all moved over to Slack? If so,<br>
how do I<br>
join? If not, isn’t it time to set up a Team or a channel on a<br>
team like<br>
ZA Tech?<br>
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Charles Rethman<o:p></o:p></p>
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