<div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>In QGIS Indonesia we have several channels:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Telegram, the most active one, and the discussion are healthy. There are some spammers, but adding a bot really helps.</div><div>2. Facebook group. There is one official (from QGIS ID), and there are some unofficial. One of them even has ~4800 members. The contents mostly are people sharing their YouTube/blog tutorials, selling course, data, software, etc. But, there are some good discussions also (1 in 20 probably).</div><div>3. Twitter and Instagram, mostly for sharing events or news but sometimes people contact us from these two channels. Surprisingly, Instagram has a better "reach" compared to Twitter in our case. We even make a mapping competition through Instagram.</div><div>4. Mailing list. Not working at all here :D</div><div>5. WhatsApp is not enough for us</div><div>6. YouTube, we do some talk and tutorial about QGIS from our community. I think we also use Facebook Live for streaming.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:58 PM Martin Dobias <<a href="mailto:wonder.sk@gmail.com">wonder.sk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div>Here in Slovakia there has also been increased interest to form a QGIS user group, and I was wondering if other user groups had any thoughts on what channels work for them and what channels don't.</div><div><br></div><div>Mailing lists seem to work fine for the "core" QGIS community, but they are perhaps seen as too old fashioned for many people :-) Facebook is a place where many people are already, making it easier to gather a community and get news to the people - but of course with all the cons that Andreas mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>So I am curious - what do others use? Slack? Discord? Telegram? WhatsApp? Gitter? Instagram? TikTok? :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Martin</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 10:56 AM Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:andreas@qgis.org" target="_blank">andreas@qgis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Ben Hur,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your efforts in maintaining an "unofficial" QGIS user group in the Philippines - and for your willingness to turn this effort into an "official" user group.</div><div><br></div><div>Some important things:</div><ul><li>It would be great if you could organize a group of active people driving the effort besides you, e.g. form a small board of dedicated people. It would be good if the work could be distributed between several people besides you</li><li>Please try to register the country level QGIS domain - <a href="http://qgis.ph" target="_blank">qgis.ph</a> - make sure that this domain is not "owned" by a company, but by the local user group.<br></li><li>Try to establish regular meetings (currently probably primarily online, but later also "in person" meetings) with presentations and workshops<br></li><li>If feasible and doable it would be good to establish a local official association (or similar) and hand over ownership of the domain name to that association</li><li>Facebook is ok to use, but please don't use it as the "only" channel. Facebook is quite restrictive and politically not neutral at all (at multiple occasions Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that they would oppose the Democrats in the US, because they would want to put regulations on data privacy and probably start antitrust measurements). It is also really problematic regarding privacy (collecting user data without their consent). Ideally you could find an alternative channel besides Facebook for your discussion (don't know if this is feasible).</li><li>Finally: please send the name and contact of the "official contact" of your group to Marco Bernasocchi (<a href="mailto:marco@qgis.org" target="_blank">marco@qgis.org</a>). That would probably be you?<br></li></ul><div>Let us know if you want further assistance and greetings,</div><div>Andreas<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 04:16, Ben Hur Pintor <<a href="mailto:bnhr.xyz@gmail.com" target="_blank">bnhr.xyz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<br><br>I hope this email finds you all in good health and in good spirits.<br><br>My name is Ben Hur and I'm a QGIS user and FOSS4G advocate from the Philippines. I'm the creator and admin of an unofficial QGIS User Group Philippines on Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/qgis.ph" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/qgis.ph</a>) which I created to have a safe and open avenue for Filipino QGIS users, developers, and enthusiasts to share their knowledge and love for QGIS and FOSS4G. Our group has around 2K members and is still growing. Aside from this, I organize and volunteer for local FOSS4G and QGIS-related initiatives here in the Philippines like Pista ng Mapa (<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/events/pista-ng-mapa/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/events/pista-ng-mapa/</a>) and MaptimeDiliman (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/maptimediliman" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/maptimediliman</a>). I'm also the proprietor of BNHR -- a Small QGIS Sustaining Member and Certifying Organization.<br><br>I'm sending this email on behalf of my community because we've long planned to organize ourselves as an official user group. Recently, I was inspired by our Southeast Asian neighbors from Indonesia and believe that we can bring another perspective to the global community.<br><br>I read <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html" target="_blank">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html</a> and would like to ask for guidance on what steps to take next.<br><br>Your help and replies would be greatly appreciated.<br><br><i>Maraming salamat! </i>(Thank you very much!)<br><br>All the best,<br>Ben Hur<br><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>---</div><div><font face="monospace"><b>Ben Hur S. 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