[Qgis-community-team] Re: [work] Re: Community Team

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Tara,

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:20:34 -0700
Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:

> I have used it  but am not very comfortable with it.  I installed  mIRC which
> worked OK, but I ran into difficulty in one meeting over trying to exchange
> URLs- I wasn't able to cut and paste, had to type it in and it didn't go well.
> Is anybody familiar with another IRC client (for Windows) that is any better?

I work with linux and use xchat, but I heard that chatzilla should be a nice
tool, if you use firefox or mozilla as browser, but others might know more
about windows tools.

 Otto 

> Tara
> 
> Otto Dassau wrote:Hi, 
> 
> I added an IRC channel "#qgis-community-team" to freenode.net. We can use it
for
> our first meetings or whenever we like. Do you have experience with IRC?
> Otherwise I can try to help.
> 
> For more information a new "Meetings" wiki page exists: 
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/CommunityTeamMeetings
> 
> We can use it to organize our meetings, save IRC logs and to collect ideas
> and make notes for our meetings. For the first meeting a new wiki page
"Meeting
> May 2008" already exists on "Meetings".
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/CTeamMeeting1
> 
> Next news is that we now have a new mailing list, too. Please subscribe so we
> can discuss all topics with an archive from now on.
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team
> 
> Regards,
>  Otto
> 
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:34:34 +0200
> Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>   Hi community team, 
> 
> the wiki page is almost ready - looks great so far! :-) Sascha can you add
> some
> infos and a picture, too? There will a 0.10.0 release announcement soon, where
> we add some information about the new community team and a link to the wiki
> page. So hopefully many more volunteers will participate and contribute.
> 
> I asked Frank Warmerdam from osgeo to create a new qgis-community-team mailing
> list. As soon as it is running I will tell you and we can switch our mailings
> to
> that list. I will also create an IRC (qgis-community-team) channel for us the
> next days, so we have a place to meet online from time to time.
> 
> A first thing I would like to ask you before we start with a first meeting is
> to
> collect some ideas and make a list - what you think could/should be done and
> improved for your tasks within the community team. To get ideas you can look
> at related QGIS wiki sites or compair with other open source (GIS) projects
> what they provide for their community.
> 
> GRASS: 
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community
> http://grass.osgeo.org/community/index.php
> 
> Udig:
> http://udig.refractions.net/users/
> 
> OpenJump:
> http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage
> 
> etc...
> 
> And we could also start to find a date for our first IRC meeting. I created a
> page at http://doodle.de/t969a2epdqwhmdh5 . It is in german but very easy to
> understand. I assumed we meet within the next 14 days, so you simply need to
> add
> your name and click on the days that work for you. After we have a day, we try
> to find a time ...
> 
> >From Wednesday to Friday, I won't be online, because we have a holiday in
> Germany. So I will 
> 
> best wishes, 
>  Otto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:42 +0200
> Stephan Reber <stephan.reber at sr-gis.de> wrote:
> 
>     Hallo,
> 
> just edited my entry. Everthing works fine. The only thing was, i had to 
> change my picture, because the first was too big. Hope, I didn't delete 
> anything else.
> 
> Regards
> Stephan
> 
> Otto Dassau schrieb:
>       Hi Werner,
> 
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:34:39 +0200
> "Werner Macho" <werner.macho at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   
>         thx otto!
> 
> everything is working fine .. just wrote my entry (hope i did not make
>           any
>   mistake :))
>     
>           no, everything is fine!
> 
>   
>         so.. whats next?
> 
> anything to translate? anyone lost in translation :)  - and i can  lead
>           the
>   correct way?
> is there a online meeting in IRC or anywhere else planned? what about any
> instant-messanger addresses?
>     
>           next step is to organize the mailing list. I hope I soon know, if we
>         create
>   a
>     new one or use the old doc list for the community team and then we start
> organizing and working! Until then it will be a little bit slower, because
>         I
>   would like to use the list as archive for us. 
> 
> regards,
>  Otto
> 
>   
>         sunny greetings from vienna
> 
> werner
>     
>             
>         
>   
>