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

Sun May 18 01:26:37 PDT 2014

Hi Andreas

Thanks for that - it's really useful.  Looking forward to hearing more
about it.

Ross

On 16/05/14 10:10, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> 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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