[OSGeo-Discuss] Presenting the "Ráfagas"

[Jeff McKenna]

Ha, I like the Ráfagas!

I'd prefer a new mailing list for these, but, it sounds like an awful 
lot of work to translate each day (??!!).

But I agree, this is useful information.  Thanks Raf and Jorge!

-jeff



On 2015-07-23 5:20 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For many months a very dedicated geogeek from Catalonia called Raf
> Roset has been writing almost every working day an email to the
> Barcelona and Valencia mailing lists with interesting links about many
> topics related with geospatial (not just Open Source but also Open
> Data and many other topics). We happily name them Ráfagas*.
>
> Some time ago I started to translate it also everyday to repost them
> on a couple Spanish speaking lists. Less time ago I started to
> translate them into English to post them on a internal CartoDB mailing
> list and I end up only doing the English translation for CartoDB and
> Spanish lists.
>
> You can check the last Ráfagas for example here:
>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=5049752&query=R%C3%A1faga&sort=date
>
>
> So, my offer/question to this list is if you think it's interesting to
> send them also here or maybe to a new mailing list. It's quite off
> topic, but on the other hand every day there's a lot of cool stuff
> being sent on those mails so it's a pity the are not spread all over
> the internet. I can tell you that people in Spanish lists *love* the
> Ráfagas.
>
> We like this format of daily mails sent to a list because it
> encourages discussion, way better than a blog. That's something we've
> discussed a lot an we always end up confirming that this format is the
> best**.
>
> What do you think?
>
> * Ráfaga in Spanish means a burst of shots and it's a doble joke
> honouring also Raf :-)
> ** At some point we want to automatize the process as much as
> possible, sending everyday these mails takes some time and the less
> steps to do the job the better, but that's another story.
>