<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 31 May 2016, at 11:33, Vincent Picavet (ml) <<a href="mailto:vincent.ml@oslandia.com" class="">vincent.ml@oslandia.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">On 31/05/2016 07:45, Neumann, Andreas wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Hi Vincent,<br class=""><br class="">Wow - 20 to 50 companies offering QGIS courses in France. How comes -<br class="">these companies do not contribute more to QGIS?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">They usually offer QGIS training courses as well as other software,<br class="">mostly proprietary. Almost all companies initially providing MapInfo<br class="">training now offer some kind of QGIS training.<br class=""><br class="">I totally agree that they should contribute in some way to QGIS, at the<br class="">very least file bugs and feedback from their trainings. Language barrier<br class="">is probably an explanation, but definitely not a reason.<br class=""><br class="">Thinking about a way to raise awareness on contribution from their part<br class="">may be something important, but I do not have a lot of ideas on how this<br class="">would be done at best.<br class="">Among some ideas :<br class="">* Having a dedicated page for these with a link on the download page<br class="">* Inserting a specific text on this in the "QGIS tips & tricks" window<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I was initially thinking that we should allow course announcements to<br class="">the users list, but I now, if I hear how many companies are offering<br class="">these courses, I agree that it would be too much. Maybe the mailing<br class="">lists of the local user groups are the better vehicle in this case. In<br class="">the Swiss QGIS user group we have a calendar of events and announce<br class="">courses on the Swiss QGIS users mailing list.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Local chapter can be a good option indeed.</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes hearing that there are so many training course providers sounds like we might have a spam fest! Here is another idea: Why don’t we make an ‘upcoming events’ page where we can let people register their upcoming course? Something like the commercial support page. That would make it easy for people to find an upcoming course near to them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Otherwise for now, yes lets keep these announcements off the list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="65" width="59" apple-inline="yes" id="1798A40C-9104-4E16-AA40-10798ADBF8C0" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:879A6E78-CA46-47B2-AA0E-1810BD833229" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---<br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>