[OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel

Fri Sep 4 04:50:44 PDT 2015

And my question was not directed to a particular person. It was just an observation. Anyhow I was expecting that kind of response. Apologies if anyone was offended. And I ask that my questions be ignored. I am well answered.

Luxon

From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim Sutton
Sent: 04 September 2015 01:39 PM
To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel

Hi

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) <L.Nhamo at cgiar.org<mailto:L.Nhamo at cgiar.org>> wrote:
Dear all

This seems more like a splinter/ elitist QGIS forum being formed here.

Haha I guess QGIS is maturing...its the first time we were ever called elitist in my living memory...

Sorry if my observations are wrong but what are the aims of this new group which are different from the current group?

There is no new group, only new and diverse channels of comunication....its good to use different channels - some people like the immediacy of online chat, some like the ability to digest their convesations via email. I was only pointing to the QGIS channel  by way of example of what we would get if we would get if osgeo-africa formed a chat room on gitter.im<http://gitter.im> (and also similar to what you would get on slack since the experience is almost the same).

Is it still affiliated to GISSA‎? 

And by the way forming special interest groups is not a bad thing (I'm not sure why you used such pejorative  language above) - if people want to share experiences and dive into detail in one particular topic area it's just a normal and healthy process of a community. osgeo-africa list is itself an example of this - otherwise we would all be subscribed to the parent osgeo list and not have regional chapters. And yes I believe there is still some affiliation with GISSA - Gavin could probably answer better exactly what that is.

Have a good weekend!

Regards

Tim

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From: Tim Sutton
Sent: Thursday 3 September 2015 23:47
To: Africa local chapter discussions
Reply To: Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel

Hi

For those wanting to join the gitter QGIS chat room, you can go here:

https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS

You can also install the gitter desktop and mobile apps if you want to - visit the gitter home page for details.

If there is interest I could set up an osgeo africa one (sorry to usurp your Slack promulgation Jeff haha :-) ). The reason I don't like slack is that their subscription fees are terribly expensive - or at the least pretty confusing… https://slack.com/pricing whereas gitter is linked right into github which is nice and is free for public repos).

Regards

Tim

On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:34, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:

I don't monitor this list frequently so please e-mail me directly.

-jeff

On 2015-09-03 4:09 PM, Jea Munda wrote:

Hi,
I want to join.

-jea

On Thursday, September 3, 2015, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
wrote:

   Hi Charles,

   I've sent you an invite.  If anyone else wants to join just ping me
   directly.

   -jeff

   On 2015-09-03 9:04 AM, Charles Rethman wrote:

       Hi everybody,

       This list has been really quiet lately… I’m wondering why? Is it
       because
       email is so last-century and we all moved over to Slack? If so,
       how do I
       join? If not, isn’t it time to set up a Team or a channel on a
       team like
       ZA Tech?

       Charles Rethman
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