[OSGeo Africa] Slack Channel

Fri Sep 4 05:24:50 PDT 2015

Hi

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) <
L.Nhamo at cgiar.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

For my part I wasn't offended just extremely surprised - the reason I
started working on QGIS (12+ years ago just after the project was
announced) was to democratise access to GIS technology - it's free and its
open source and allows anyone with access to even a basic computer to start
capturing and analysing the world around them. I am sure many other open
source developers and projects have similar motivations, and the OSGEO
organisation certainly entertains this as a core value of FOSSGIS, so it is
about as far in the opposite extreme to elitism as you can get....

It's always good to have different views in a group like this, and I hope
you find that the more you participate in FOSS the more inclusive and open
the experience is ... I look forward to your future comments on this
list...! :-)

Regards

Tim

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> *Luxon *
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> *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> wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
>
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> This seems more like a splinter/ elitist QGIS forum being formed here.
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> Haha I guess QGIS is maturing...its the first time we were ever called
> elitist in my living memory...
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> Sorry if my observations are wrong but what are the aims of this new group
> which are different from the current group?
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> 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 (and also similar to what you would get on slack since
> the experience is almost the same).
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> Is it still affiliated to GISSA‎? 
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> 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!
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>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Tim
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> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>
> *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:
>
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> https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS
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> You can also install the gitter desktop and mobile apps if you want to -
> visit the gitter home page for details.
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>
> 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).
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> Regards
>
>
>
> Tim
>
>
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> On 03 Sep 2015, at 21:34, Jeff McKenna <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
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>>
> wrote:
>
>    Hi Charles,
>
>    I've sent you an invite.  If anyone else wants to join just ping me
>    directly.
>
>    -jeff
>
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>
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>    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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