[Qgis-user] QGIS communication platforms

[James Keener]

You feel that to participate in the community of an open source tool I must sign up to a proprietary service who will track and advertise to me (of which none of the advertising revenue goes to qgis)? What happens in a few years when something else becomes the new hotness? What happens when Facebook becomes even more evil? Why do you want people tracking you all the time? Why are you OK forcing other people into luxury jails?

Jim

On July 18, 2016 9:34:10 AM EDT, "Mats Elfström" <mats.elfstrom at giskraft.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>I am sad to say that I disagree strongly with the views expressed in
>some
>replies to my earlier post.
>
>I am a kid of 63 who has found that Facebook and Twitter are important
>and
>invaluable sources and platforms for both communication and
>information.
>And kids of a younger age are, and must be our target audience. I do
>not
>know about you abroad, but in Sweden there is an alarming lack of
>students
>and graduates in the geospatial sciences. It is now hard to find
>educated
>young people to fill the gaps when us old kids retire. I try to
>evangelize
>QGIS as good as I can and have opportunity to, and an FB page needs no
>explanation, while mailing lists are an unknown entity. Among younger
>kids,
>i mean.
>
>Second, I am a volunteer. I run a Facebook page for QGIS in swedish,
>and
>try to pick up news on QGIS development and QGIS use of a general
>interest.
>Time is a factor, of course, but using FB I need not spend any time to
>maintain userlists, login procedures, web servers etc. I can spend the
>time
>I can offer to maintain the content of the page, which is what should
>matter in the end.
>An I do not think that 20000+ FB QGIS likers deserve to be so lightly
>disregarded.
>
>Cheers, Mats.E
>
>2016-07-18 14:20 GMT+02:00 Mats Elfström <mats.elfstrom at giskraft.com>:
>
>> Hi!
>> I am sad to say that I disagree strongly with the views expressed in
>some
>> replies to my post.
>>
>> I am a kid of 63 who has found that Facebook and Twitter are
>invaluable
>> sources and platforms for both communication and information.
>> And kids of a younger age are, and must be our target audience. I do
>not
>> know about you abroad, but in Sweden there is an alarming lack of
>students
>> and graduates in the geospatial sciences. It is now hard to find
>educated
>> young people to fill the gaps when us old kids retire.
>>
>> Second, I am a volunteer. I run a Facebook page for QGIS in swedish,
>and
>> try to pick up news on QGIS development and QGIS use of a general
>interest.
>> Time is a factor, of course, but using FB I need not spend any time
>to
>> maintain userlists, login procedures, web servers etc. I can spend
>the time
>> I can offer to maintain the content of the page, which is what should
>> matter in the end.
>> An I do not think that 20000 FB users deserve to be so easily
>disregarded.
>>
>> Cheers, Mats.E
>>
>> 2016-07-18 13:02 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I, along with some others, manage the Facebook and Twitter accounts.
>It's
>>> not normally a issue I have just been a bit slow with it lately.
>>>
>>> Both are updated now.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Neumann, Andreas
><a.neumann at carto.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not sure if Facebook is our target audience. Isn't this more
>for
>>>> the kids?
>>>>
>>>> However, if someone volunteers to work on that - feel free to do
>it.
>>>>
>>>> On Twitter there is probably more news on QGIS - but I agree with
>Strk
>>>> that the mailing lists should be our primary channels - properly
>archive -
>>>> no restrictions - free for everyone without having to pay with your
>>>> personal data.
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-07-18 11:51, Mats Elfström wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is what 20 774 QGIS likers on Facebook get as QGIS news.
>>>>
>>>> ​
>>>> Surely they are entitled to a bit more attention?
>>>> Why do you cling to old century mailing lists and bulletin board
>>>> technology?
>>>> How many subscribe to this list?
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Mats.E
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *GisKraft*, GIS och webbkonsult
>>>> Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden
>>>> tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com
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>>
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>> Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden
>> tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com
>>
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>*GisKraft*, GIS och webbkonsult
>Mats Elfström, Väpplingvägen 21, SE-227 38 LUND, Sweden
>tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com
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