[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Re: [Qgis-user] Organizing a US / North American User Group

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Paolo

A topic for the next PSC meeting?

Regards,
Marco

On 29.01.2014 07:52, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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> Hi all.
> I understand a real dev is deeply uninterested in such issues, but (sorry to insist)
> I think this is a theme of great interest for the future of QGIS.
> Are we sure we want to leave things to happen without interfering? I'm not against
> this, but I would feel more comfortable if we would explicitly think&talk about it.
> All the best.
>
>
> - -------- Messaggio originale --------
> My personal opinion is that beyond meetups coinciding with other confs,
> and possibly organizing QGIS hackfests (can be user oriented) that most
> other functions of such a group overlap either with QGIS' existing
> infrastructure (e.g. do we really need our own mailing list since the
> main QGIS ones are in English except to discuss regional events?) or
> OSGeo chapters.
>
> Guess I'm mostly hesitant about splitting the FOSS4G community
> mindshare, I don't use QGIS in isolation and never would (unlike some
> monolithic software packages), so to me leaving out Postgis, Spatialite,
> GRASS, (Everything else in Processing) kinda misses the mark.
>
> But I do get the notion that some things simplified can be more
> attractive to a general audience (ie hook in the QGIS users out there
> somehow).
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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