[Qgis-community-team] Links to help people find QGIS blogs etc.

[Alister Hood]

OK.
I think the best thing to start off with is to add to and revamp the "Users Corner" and the main wiki page.  Unless anybody strenuously objects I'll see what I can achieve there.... But I'll be off the grid for a week or so first.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Sutton [mailto:tim at linfiniti.com]
> Sent: Friday, 13 January 2012 10:40 a.m.
> To: Alister Hood
> Cc: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Links to help people find QGIS blogs
> etc.
> 
> Hi Alister
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Alister Hood
> <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > There are a lot of people sharing all sorts of information about QGIS
> > (tutorials, news, tips etc) via blogs, social networking pages (e.g.
> > https://plus.google.com/109126324126544815949) and other forums.
> >
> > It would be nice to list somewhere as many of these sources as
> possible, to
> > help people find them - a new user looking at the website would be
> unaware
> > that any of this exists.
> >
> 
> Yes it would be good.
> 
> >
> >
> > There is already a "QGIS planet" to list blogs.  But:
> >
> > -       I can't seem to see any links to it from the main site.
> Could a
> > link to it be added to the main page under community, or at the top,
> with
> > "Wiki|Forum|Bugs|Shop"?*
> >
> 
> There used to be one - these things come and go over time as different
> discussions ('lets be minimal' or 'lets be the kitchen sink') take
> place over time.
> 
> > -       There are actually two planets, with slightly different blog
> rolls.
> >  (Am I correct in assuming http://plugins.qgis.org/planet/ is
> obsolete,
> > replaced by http://qgis.org/planet/?  Would it be possible for the
> two pages
> > to include links to each other?).
> >
> 
> Yes one will be obsoleted at some point.
> >
> >
> > For sources other than blogs (like the google plus page and the
> > stackexchange forum), would it be possible to provide links somewhere
> -
> > maybe under community, or in the side pane at the planet?
> >
> 
> Yes that would be good.
> 
> > Or would it be better to keep them on a wiki page, so descriptions
> can be
> > included, and it is easier for people to add links?
> >
> 
> Also a nice option.
> 
> >
> >
> > Or is someone already working on this?
> >
> >
> 
> I would suggest approaching Werner and lay out your ideas and work
> with him to improve the organisation of materials. Or even
> volunteering to take on some of the work if possible - Werner is
> probably getting a bit overloaded doing release assistant work,
> translation management, web site maintentance etc...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alister
> >
> >
> >
> > * By the way, one of my pet annoyances is web sites with multiple
> menus like
> > this (The NZ government is possibly the worst offender).
> >
> > Does it really make sense to have the wiki and the forum only
> available in
> > the menu at the top, but the mailing lists only available in the menu
> at the
> > left?