[Qgis-community-team] Scottish QGIS user group write up

Tue May 20 10:30:00 PDT 2014

Hi,

The support page on qgis.org contains the key points Andreas mentioned:

http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html?highlight=user%20group#user-groups

Best wishes,
Anita

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Ross McDonald <ross at mixedbredie.net> wrote:
> Hi Andreas
>
> Thanks for that - it's really useful.  Looking forward to hearing more
> about it.
>
> Ross
>
> On 16/05/14 10:10, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Regarding user-group recommendations:
>>
>> A while ago (just after the Vienna hackfest) I forwarded some
>> recommendations to Anita to be discussed in the PSC meeting. I'll
>> forward my information to this list as well - but take care, this is not
>> yet fully discussed and sanctioned by the PSC:
>>
>>
>> ----------------------
>>
>> Goals of a user group:
>>
>> * Organization of user meetings
>> * Coordination of development, taking into account regional/national
>> standards and requirements
>> * QGIS information: meetings, articles in GIS magazines, QGIS
>> information on Twitter, GIS discussion boards, etc.
>> * Collection of case studies of local QGIS usage
>> * Sponsoring: a local user group could collect reasonable annual
>> membership fees (depending on the country). This collected funds could
>> be used to pay development of certain features, to help with bug-fixing
>> or as a donation to the international QGIS project.
>> * establishment of interest groups, e.g. surveying, urban planning,
>> server/web client, etc.
>> * initialization/coordination of application modules, e.g. surveying,
>> urban planning, server/web client, etc.
>>
>>
>> General assumptions/recommendations:
>>
>> * stay vendor/company neutral
>> * establish democratic structures for the steering committee, voting and
>> important decision
>> * stay transparent, esp. if you deal with membership-fees and how you
>> spend it
>> * inform the international project from time to time about your local
>> activities
>>
>>
>> Organization
>>
>> Depending on your country, a smaller legal entity, e.g. an association,
>> could be established. Depending on local legislation such an entity
>> implies that you meet at least once per year (general assembly), publish
>> a yearly report and make the financial report available to your members.
>> Often it also implies the creation of statutes.
>>
>> Statutes of the Swiss QGIS user group as an example:
>> * german (master):
>> http://www.qgis.ch/de/verein/statuten-der-qgis-anwendergruppe-schweiz
>> * english (translation):
>> http://www.qgis.ch/en/association/statutes-of-the-swiss-qgis-user-group
>> * french (translation):
>> http://www.qgis.ch/fr/association/statuts-du-groupe-d2019utilisateurs-qgis-suisse
>>
>> Membership application forms:
>> * german: http://www.qgis.ch/de/verein/beitrittserklaerung
>> * english:
>> http://www.qgis.ch/en/association/qgis-usergroup-switzerland-membership-application-form
>> * french: http://www.qgis.ch/fr/association/declaration-d2019adhesion
>>
>>
>> You can use these statutes and membership application forms as an idea
>> or reference and change them to your local situation.
>>
>>
>> Local Country domain qgis.xx:
>>
>> It is recommended to register your local country domains, e.g. qgis.ch
>> or qgis.uk. If the domain is already taken by someone other
>> organization, company or person please negotiate if you can transfer the
>> owner to the local QGIS user group. The QGIS international project has
>> registered QGIS as a trademark, which should help you during your
>> negotations.
>>
>>
>> Website:
>> The website should be used to publish any material in relation to the
>> information and management of the user group. Examples include the user
>> meetings, case study, shared material, discussion boards, etc. Public
>> material should be available without login requirements (e.g. do not
>> require interested people to be a member of a social media network like
>> Facebook or Google+). Usage of social media is recommended but should
>> not be the only channel of information. RSS feeds should be made
>> available at the Website of the QGIS user group.
>>
>>
>> Good luck with the organization of your local user group. Please inform
>> the international QGIS team by registering at the QGIS community list
>> and reporting about your progress. Please do not hesitate to ask
>> questions regarding the establishment and maintenance of your local user
>> group.
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> Am 16.05.2014 08:34, schrieb Saber Razmjooei:
>>> Hi Ross,
>>>
>>> The website looks great!
>>>
>>> These qgis domains are available to us:
>>> qgis.uk
>>> qgis.co.uk
>>> qgis.org.uk
>>>
>>> I can do that over the weekend.
>>>
>>> In terms of guidelines, haven't heard of anything. There was a PSC meeting
>>> last week, not sure if it was mentioned.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Saber
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ross McDonald [mailto:ross at mixedbredie.net]
>>> Sent: 15 May 2014 22:35
>>> To: Saber Razmjooei
>>> Cc: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Scottish QGIS user group write up
>>>
>>> Hi Saber
>>>
>>> Thanks for your PR to the UK QGIS site.
>>>
>>> At the moment the site is available at http://qgis-uk.github.io and we
>>> should be able to simply add a CNAME file to the root of the repo and then
>>> update the DNS entry for it.  What QGIS domains do you have available?  We
>>> were thinking the subdomain of http://uk.qgis.org/ would work for the GitHub
>>> hosted site.
>>>
>>> Is there any news on user group guidelines?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
>>> On 28 Mar 2014, at 15:50, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ross,
>>>>
>>>> We have purchased the uk qgis domains and happy to pass them to the
>>>> PSC or handle the domains in the way they deem appropriate.
>>>>
>>>> I think, during the HF, there was talk of drawing up some guidelines
>>>> on the QUGs and we will be soon made aware of the details.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Saber
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>
>>>> To: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org, Ross McDonald
>>>> <ross at mixedbredie.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Scottish QGIS user group write up
>>>> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:08:13 +0100
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ross
>>>>
>>>> Am 26.03.2014, 20:20 Uhr, schrieb Ross McDonald <ross at mixedbredie.net>:
>>>>> Are there guidelines as to what domain names we should use - should
>>>>> we try for qgis.org.uk
>>>>
>>>> It would of course be great if you could get your local domain.
>>>>
>>>>> or would we be able to get a subdomain of the main qgis.org site like
>>>>> uk.qgis.org or qgis.org/uk?
>>>>
>>>> We can set you up with a subdomain as well, it can the forward to
>>>> qgis.org.uk or whatever else you end up with.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Anita
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Not sure how DNS would
>>>>> work in this instance though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Ross
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26/03/14 15:07, Anita Graser wrote:
>>>>>> Am 25.03.2014, 23:43 Uhr, schrieb Ross McDonald <ross at mixedbredie.net>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wrote up a short account of what happened at the Scottish QGIS
>>>>>>> user group meeting last week.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://ukqgis.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/scottish-qgis-user-group-ove
>>>>>>> rview/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can this be put onto the main QGIS website or at least a link to it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ross,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please email Tim Sutton to get your blog added to QGIS Planet blog
>>>>>> aggregator.
>>>>>> This way, your latest posts will appear on the front page.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>> Anita
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ross
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