[Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-doc] New QGIS "Community Team"

[Otto Dassau]

Dear qgis-doc list members, 

together with the forming of a QGIS "Community Team", we decided to create
a new mailing list "qgis-community-team" and will today automatically subscribe
all current list members (you!) to that new list. This step is necessary and far
less complicated than renaming.

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team

Procedure:
---------

You will receive a "welcome" mail from the new mailing list soon and we would
like to ask you to send your mails to this new list from now on for all
community related questions. Please also consider to change your automatically
assigned password for the new list.

NOTE: We will close the "old" qgis-doc list within the next weeks. 

The new "qgis-community-team" list will handle all community related topics,
including documentation but also GUI translation, User and Conference Corner,
management of QGIS.org online experience such as wiki, forum, blog and many
more.

If you have any questions, please write to the new list or directly to me and we
apologise for any inconvenience.

kind regards,
 Otto

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:53:37 +0200
Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:

> Dear QGIS users, 
> 
> additional to the "Release Team" [1] we are looking for volunteers to build
> a new QGIS "Community Team" [2] to update, extend, and improve the services
> for our community. 
> 
> Tasks we want to establish/improve and need help for are:
> 
> - manage, extend, update, and review documentation (manual, broshure, ...). 
> - manage and translate documentation (manual, broshure, ...) into foreign
>   languages (see documentation writers corner [3]). Here we already have many
>   contributers,  but we would like to have more people getting involved 
> - manage the translations of the graphical user interface (see translators
>   corner [4]) and find more people for more languages.  
> - take care of the wiki "user corner" [5] and make it a drop-in center for
>   users
>   (add interesting links, tipps etc.)  
> - manage the conference corner [6]. Find and add interesting conferences for
>   QGIS (maybe a conference calender), organize lectures and workshops together
>   with the community   
> - Manage the QGIS website [7] and blog [8]. Adding and updating content,
>   reviewing, ...
> - ...
> 
> We are looking for people who are willing to invest some time so we can spread
> the work between small groups of people who each would have a specific area of
> resposibility. You don't need to be a programmer at all to be part of the
team. 
> 
> Some of you already sent me emails within the last weeks/months that you are
> interested to help and contribute, thank a lot! This makes me confident that
we
> can get started soon! 
> 
> For the beginning, if you are interested to help, I would like to ask you to
> write a short mail to me (otto dassau) and in copy to the doc ML [9] (after
> subscribtion) with some background information and what task you can imagine
to
> do in the team. The QGIS doc mailing list will be used for all "community
> team" related discussions.
> 
> I started to update the Community part at the QGIS wiki [10], and will add
more
> information soon and keep you uptodate via the mailing list.
> 
> thanks a lot in advance for any assistance you can give!
> 
> Kind regards,
>  Otto
> 
> [1] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ReleaseTeam
> [2] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/CommunityTeam
> [3] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DocumentationWritersCorner
> [4] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/TranslatorsCorner
> [5] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/UsersCorner
> [6] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ConferenceCorner
> [7] http://qgis.org/
> [8] http://blog.qgis.org/
> [9] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-doc
> [10] http://wiki.qgis.org/
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