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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Thank you for all of your input into the discussion. I certainly
learnt some new things and I hope you found the discussion
interesting/useful/something to distract you from whatever boring
task you may have been doing at the time.<br>
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<p>Taking into account the discussion, as OSGeo:UK Chair I have
decided to use the location of "Maidenhead". <br>
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<p>I have passed this on to Anita and you should see QGIS Maidenhead
on your desktop soon. Simon has happily taken on the task of
finding a nice historical map. <br>
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<p>As Anita said, they are working through the user groups
chronologically
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html</a>), so QGIS
UK (Scotland) will be in after six more user groups, and QGIS UK
(Wales/Cymru) will be two more after that. Get your thinking caps
on!</p>
<p>And some very non physical, bragging-rites only OSGeo:UK prizes
from suggestions that amused me / I found interesting:<br>
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<p>Obscurest link to GIS: James Scott-Brown: (another interesting
historical geospatial link to Maidenhead is the Maidenhead Locator
System [1], though its usage is mostly limited to the amateur
radio community)<br>
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Obscurest word definition: Barry Rowlingson ("Maidenhead" is also
a term for part of female anatomy, related to virginity. It might
possibly be triggering, but I don't know how well-known or archaic
the usage is. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maidenhead">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maidenhead</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/maidenhead">https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/maidenhead</a>.)
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<p>Best marketing ploy: Paul Whittle (Also, if we are wanting to put
in a bid for hosting another FOSS4G in the future; would it be
worth picking a potential venue and then submitting that location
as our recommendation?)</p>
<p>Best lateral thinking: Sam Franklin (Just an idea, I see the
convention is a town or city name, but is there anything stopping
us going for a street name? If so, how about "<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg">Broad
Street</a>" ? Personally, I'd love to see that map on the QGIS
splash screen one day! :-))</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nick.<br>
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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Hopefully this is a nice Monday morning email to make you smile
:-)</p>
<p>The QGIS UK user group has been asked to suggest name for the
next QGIS release. Usually they are named after the locations of
user meetings, but since they have had more releases than user
meetings, they are working through the user groups in turn to
ask for suggestions (see Anita's email below for details). <br>
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<p>Si Miles has suggested "Maidenhead":</p>
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<p>Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council was one of the first
UK local authorities to move to QGIS (at version 1.8!) back in
2010/11. It was while working at Windsor and Maidenhead that
with the support of Simon Miles & Matt Travis the UK QGIS
user group was born. Maidenhead even hosted the first ever UK
user group meeting. Windsor and Maidenhead also contributed
financial to many an QGIS plugin and was also a bronze sponsor
for a long as I was there. Finally, Maidenhead hosted many of
the Carry On movies, and has the oldest or is one of the
oldest football clubs in the UK, if not world! Might have to
fact check that one though! <br>
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<p>Windsor and Maidenhead is the name of the council ("Royal
Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead") but Maidenhead is their
HQ, and Anita says a single name is better than a double name.
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<p>Maidenhead is certainly not a tourist hot spot for the UK
(sorry Si!) but I think it has a nice QGIS history and sounds
like a good choice to me. <br>
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<p>Does anyone have any other suggestions or comments?</p>
<p>Anita needs to know by Fri 19th, so I will make a decision and
let her know on Thurs 18th Jan. <br>
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<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nick.<br>
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As you certainly know, QGIS releases
usually get their names from locations
of QGIS developer meetings. <br>
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Since we have more releases than
developer meetings, we have decided to
reach out to our country user groups to
select additional release names. The
country order is determined by the
founding date of the respective user
groups. <br>
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Since QGIS UK is next on our list, I'm
reaching out to you to ask you for
suggestions for release names. The
suggestions should be place names in the
UK (and ideally be related to the user
group). <br>
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Besides the name, we will also need a
historical map of the location which we
can use for the release splash screen. <br>
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I'm looking forward to your suggestions.
Please don't hesitate if you have any
questions. <br>
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Regards, <br>
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Anita Graser <br>
QGIS PSC Vice chair <br>
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