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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Alister Hood
<alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

+1 From me


Regards

Tim

>
>> -----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?



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