[Qgis-community-team] Scottish QGIS user group write up

Fri May 16 02:10:11 PDT 2014

Hi,

Regarding user-group recommendations:

A while ago (just after the Vienna hackfest) I forwarded some
recommendations to Anita to be discussed in the PSC meeting. I'll
forward my information to this list as well - but take care, this is not
yet fully discussed and sanctioned by the PSC:

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Goals of a user group:

* Organization of user meetings
* Coordination of development, taking into account regional/national
standards and requirements
* QGIS information: meetings, articles in GIS magazines, QGIS
information on Twitter, GIS discussion boards, etc.
* Collection of case studies of local QGIS usage
* Sponsoring: a local user group could collect reasonable annual
membership fees (depending on the country). This collected funds could
be used to pay development of certain features, to help with bug-fixing
or as a donation to the international QGIS project.
* establishment of interest groups, e.g. surveying, urban planning,
server/web client, etc.
* initialization/coordination of application modules, e.g. surveying,
urban planning, server/web client, etc.

General assumptions/recommendations:

* stay vendor/company neutral
* establish democratic structures for the steering committee, voting and
important decision
* stay transparent, esp. if you deal with membership-fees and how you
spend it
* inform the international project from time to time about your local
activities

Organization

Depending on your country, a smaller legal entity, e.g. an association,
could be established. Depending on local legislation such an entity
implies that you meet at least once per year (general assembly), publish
a yearly report and make the financial report available to your members.
Often it also implies the creation of statutes.

Statutes of the Swiss QGIS user group as an example:
* german (master):
http://www.qgis.ch/de/verein/statuten-der-qgis-anwendergruppe-schweiz
* english (translation):
http://www.qgis.ch/en/association/statutes-of-the-swiss-qgis-user-group
* french (translation):
http://www.qgis.ch/fr/association/statuts-du-groupe-d2019utilisateurs-qgis-suisse

Membership application forms:
* german: http://www.qgis.ch/de/verein/beitrittserklaerung
* english:
http://www.qgis.ch/en/association/qgis-usergroup-switzerland-membership-application-form
* french: http://www.qgis.ch/fr/association/declaration-d2019adhesion

You can use these statutes and membership application forms as an idea
or reference and change them to your local situation.

Local Country domain qgis.xx:

It is recommended to register your local country domains, e.g. qgis.ch
or qgis.uk. If the domain is already taken by someone other
organization, company or person please negotiate if you can transfer the
owner to the local QGIS user group. The QGIS international project has
registered QGIS as a trademark, which should help you during your
negotations.

Website:
The website should be used to publish any material in relation to the
information and management of the user group. Examples include the user
meetings, case study, shared material, discussion boards, etc. Public
material should be available without login requirements (e.g. do not
require interested people to be a member of a social media network like
Facebook or Google+). Usage of social media is recommended but should
not be the only channel of information. RSS feeds should be made
available at the Website of the QGIS user group.

Good luck with the organization of your local user group. Please inform
the international QGIS team by registering at the QGIS community list
and reporting about your progress. Please do not hesitate to ask
questions regarding the establishment and maintenance of your local user
group.

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Andreas

Am 16.05.2014 08:34, schrieb Saber Razmjooei:
> Hi Ross,
> 
> The website looks great!
> 
> These qgis domains are available to us:
> qgis.uk
> qgis.co.uk
> qgis.org.uk
> 
> I can do that over the weekend.
> 
> In terms of guidelines, haven't heard of anything. There was a PSC meeting
> last week, not sure if it was mentioned.
> 
> Cheers,
> Saber
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross McDonald [mailto:ross at mixedbredie.net] 
> Sent: 15 May 2014 22:35
> To: Saber Razmjooei
> Cc: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Scottish QGIS user group write up
> 
> Hi Saber
> 
> Thanks for your PR to the UK QGIS site.
> 
> At the moment the site is available at http://qgis-uk.github.io and we
> should be able to simply add a CNAME file to the root of the repo and then
> update the DNS entry for it.  What QGIS domains do you have available?  We
> were thinking the subdomain of http://uk.qgis.org/ would work for the GitHub
> hosted site.
> 
> Is there any news on user group guidelines?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ross
> 
> On 28 Mar 2014, at 15:50, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ross,
>>
>> We have purchased the uk qgis domains and happy to pass them to the 
>> PSC or handle the domains in the way they deem appropriate.
>>
>> I think, during the HF, there was talk of drawing up some guidelines 
>> on the QUGs and we will be soon made aware of the details.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Saber
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>
>> To: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org, Ross McDonald 
>> <ross at mixedbredie.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Scottish QGIS user group write up
>> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:08:13 +0100
>>
>> Hi Ross
>>
>> Am 26.03.2014, 20:20 Uhr, schrieb Ross McDonald <ross at mixedbredie.net>:
>>> Are there guidelines as to what domain names we should use - should 
>>> we try for qgis.org.uk
>>
>> It would of course be great if you could get your local domain.
>>
>>> or would we be able to get a subdomain of the main qgis.org site like 
>>> uk.qgis.org or qgis.org/uk?
>>
>> We can set you up with a subdomain as well, it can the forward to 
>> qgis.org.uk or whatever else you end up with.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Not sure how DNS would
>>> work in this instance though.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26/03/14 15:07, Anita Graser wrote:
>>>> Am 25.03.2014, 23:43 Uhr, schrieb Ross McDonald <ross at mixedbredie.net>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> I wrote up a short account of what happened at the Scottish QGIS 
>>>>> user group meeting last week.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ukqgis.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/scottish-qgis-user-group-ove
>>>>> rview/
>>>>>
>>>>> Can this be put onto the main QGIS website or at least a link to it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ross,
>>>>
>>>> Please email Tim Sutton to get your blog added to QGIS Planet blog 
>>>> aggregator.
>>>> This way, your latest posts will appear on the front page.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Anita
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Ross
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