[QGIS-Developer] FOSS4G CFP proposals around QGIS

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi all,
I just submitted this:

**Open source contributors do more than they should. QGIS as a reference
project on how to find sustainable ways to rock!**

QGIS - like Geoserver, Mapserver and all the great OSGEO project - do not
have to prove any longer that they can do the job.
We now have millions of users, with great expectations, growing budgets and
growing communities. Still we lack funding for boring tasks : packaging,
bugfixing, documentation, QA and marketing need some love.

**What about changing minds and stop saying open source does not cost
anything ?**
Could that solve this situation where countries having most users also have
the less contributors ?
This talk will take profit of real life examples of big corporations that
decided to pivot their approach from "using open source" to "embrace
Opensource".

Let's get out of our technical comfort zone and expose ourselves to enlarge
our contributor's base.

This is a deeply optimistic talk looking right into the eyes of what we
need to improve, as an opensource ecosystem !


if this is accepted, I will reuse some facts of Andreas talks about users
stat's, project budget and we could articulate this with a "state of QGIS "
talk.
Best regards
Régis


Le lun. 15 avr. 2019 à 15:12, Vincent Picavet (ml) <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>
a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> On 15/04/2019 13:48, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> > Thanks Vincent.
> >
> > What would be the content of a "State of QGIS" talk? It would obviously
> > not be possible to present all improvements in QGIS from the past year.
> > Would this be more like a "behind the scenes" talk where mainly issues
> > around community, organization, infrastructure, challenges we face, etc.
> > would be discussed?
>
> No idea, I just read this comment from the CfP :
>
> """
> FOSS4G is the international geospatial community’s event, thus the main
> selection of talks will be done through the open community voting
> process. The highest-scored ones will automatically be included in the
> program, while the others will be reviewed by the FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest
> volunteer Program Committee. Its members will make sure that the
> conference program will be well-balanced, diverse and they will make
> sure that every OSGeo project will have a “State of ” kind of presentation.
> """
>
> As for features, Marco's presentation will be relevant. It may be
> interesting to have something more project-oriented to have a general
> overview, with QGIS.ORG status, project dynamics, etc.
>
> We can also ask the program committee to know exactly what they would
> want to hear.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
>
> >
> > Good to see that you will cover server/web client.
> >
> > I had a quick exchange with Lutra regarding a 3D and mesh workshop.
> > Obviously this would overlap with your 3D with Postgis and QGIS
> > workshop. Would it still make sense to submit two proposals?
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Andreas
> >
> > On 2019-04-15 12:22, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Andreas,
> >>
> >> On 15/04/2019 12:17, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> >>> Today is the last day submitting workshop and presentation proposals.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder who/what was already submitted, so I could potentially help to
> >>> fill in gaps?
> >>>
> >>> I could submit something around "tips&tricks with
> layouts/atlas/reports"
> >>> (including usage of variables and expressions).
> >>>
> >>> How about
> >>>
> >>>   * QGIS server improvements (OGC validation, etc.)
> >>>   * Behind the scenes of QGIS.ORG (it was presented in Dresden at
> >>>     FOSSGIS by Anita and in A Coruna by myself; but I think not yet at
> a
> >>>     FOSS4G conf)
> >>>   * QGIS 3D (Lutra-guys - are you participating?)
> >>>
> >>> How about doing a workshop around 3D and mesh rendering?
> >>
> >> We have submitted these talks ( or nearly ;-) related to QGIS :
> >> - Running QGIS Server in production
> >> - OS Tools for geology based on QGIS and PostGIS
> >> - (no title yet) : a talk about QGIS adoption, market maturity and
> >> evolution of the project
> >>
> >> And the following workshops :
> >> - 3D in PostGIS and QGIS
> >> - QGIS Server and QWC2
> >>
> >> I have read that the LOC wants talks "State of XXX" for all OSGeo
> >> projects. Has someone already submitted a "State of QGIS" talk ?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Vincent
> >>
> >
>
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