[Qgis-user] Organizing a US / North American User Group

[Pedro Machado Monteiro]

I agree with Alex, about the mailing list; splitting lists = splitting and
losing knowledge, information and solutions;

Best regards

Pedro Monteiro












2014-01-28 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>

> On 01/22/2014 02:01 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> > I setup a quick google spreadsheet to collect emails in lieu of a
> > mailing list for now.
> >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/a/boundlessgeo.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AishiXFd06bHdGl4ZE92Y09TbkU1TVBKTm8zMmNmZmc&usp=drive_web#gid=0
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jeffrey Johnson
> > <jjohnson at boundlessgeo.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> It seems like a good time to get a US / North American User Group
> >> going since there has been a serious uptick in interest in QGIS on
> >> this side of the Atlantic. I've talked to quite a few people privately
> >> about this, but figured now is the time to bring it to the wider user
> >> community.
> >>
> >> So, my employer (Boundless Geo) would like to help organize an
> >> inaugural User Group Meeting on April 11th, the day before the State
> >> of the Map Conference in Washington DC. This seems like a good
> >> opportunity to get everyone together when lots of spatially minded
> >> people will be in town. The consensus is that we could arrange space
> >> in the District during the day and have a happy hour nearby that
> >> night.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what the procedure is for organizing a User Group (or if
> >> there even is one), but we can take on the tasks of setting up a
> >> mailing list, website etc. If the PSC can let us know what hoops we
> >> should jump through, or things we should think about, please let us
> >> know. We will be reaching out to lots of people who are very excited
> >> about QGIS but haven't really joined the community and try to get the
> >> involved.
> >>
>
> There really isn't a procedure that I've seen. I think most people are
> served by local user groups of FOSS or GIS origin. North America might
> even be too big of a geographic area for what many traditionally call a
> user group. I see a good role being to help ensure Birds of a
> Feather/Local meets whenever good related conferences roll into town:
> FOSS4G, FOSS4GNA, NACIS, State of the Map, URISA (e.g. WAURISA, CalGIS)
> etc...
>
> Note the comparison in the EU is the hackfests which is really a lot of
> developers and power users getting together to work on QGIS.
>
> >> Please contact me off-list if you are interested in helping with this
> >> effort and as soon as we get a mailing list going I'll follow up with
> >> a link here.
> >>
> >> Hoping to see some of you in DC in April!
> >>
> >> Jeff
>
> My personal opinion is that beyond meetups coinciding with other confs,
> and possibly organizing QGIS hackfests (can be user oriented) that most
> other functions of such a group overlap either with QGIS' existing
> infrastructure (e.g. do we really need our own mailing list since the
> main QGIS ones are in English except to discuss regional events?) or
> OSGeo chapters.
>
> Guess I'm mostly hesitant about splitting the FOSS4G community
> mindshare, I don't use QGIS in isolation and never would (unlike some
> monolithic software packages), so to me leaving out Postgis, Spatialite,
> GRASS, (Everything else in Processing) kinda misses the mark.
>
> But I do get the notion that some things simplified can be more
> attractive to a general audience (ie hook in the QGIS users out there
> somehow).
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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