<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:L.Nhamo@cgiar.org" target="_blank">L.Nhamo@cgiar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This seems more like a splinter/ elitist QGIS forum being formed here.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Haha I guess QGIS is maturing...its the first time we were ever called elitist in my living memory...</div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Sorry if my observations are wrong but what are the aims of this new group which are different from the current group? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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).</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Is it still affiliated to GISSA? <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Have a good weekend!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
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<div><b>From: </b>Tim Sutton</div>
<div><b>Sent: </b>Thursday 3 September 2015 23:47</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">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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On 2015-09-03 4:09 PM, Jea Munda wrote:<br>
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I want to join.<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<br>
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