[Qgis-psc] project feedback to OSGeo

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 14/02/2016 16:39, Anita Graser ha scritto:

> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org
> <mailto:tim at qgis.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Another useful thing they could do is develop a standard promotional
>     pack e.g. a double sided brochure from each OSGEO project and copies
>     of the OSGEO Live CD that can be used by local chapters and OSGEO
>     representatives when they man booths and stalls. They could fund or
>     help each country chapter to create a kit that can be used to take
>     to events to help OSGEO and its constituent projects. At the moment
>     anyone wanting to represent OSGEO is left very much up to their own
>     devices and even having all of these resources collated in the wiki
>     would be useful so you can get them in one place.
> 
> 
> ​Good point! I agree that the whole issue and particularly the brochures
> could use quite some love. Unfortunately, without an active marketing
> team, that probably won't happen anytime soon.
> I'm also more and more uncertain how worthwhile it is to produce print
> brochures. After all, anyone can just check the project website as
> easily. In my experience, brochures are collected, never read, and
> finally thrown away most of the time. 

Agreed with Anita: paper costs a lot to produce, even more to send
around (it tends to always be in the wrong place when needed), people
are very rarely interested, and it looks so oldish in these tech ties.

> Live CDs or USB sticks have been floating around at quite a few events
> now. I'm not sure if it makes financial sense to ship them around the
> world or if they should be created locally. That would certainly be
> worth a discussion on the OSGeo lists.

After a love at first sight, I never found these very useful: I tried to
use them for training, but I found them sluggish, source of problems,
and users were never really happy about it.
More specifically, having a recent QGIS version in it proved difficult,
and I'd hate sending obsolete stuff around.
Good install instructions are far better IMHO, particularly for desktop sw.

>     Also the OSGEO web site looks and is really dated and same for the
>     wiki….can’t they modernise it a bit (using a professional designer)?
>     - it doesn’t look like the web site of a professional organisation.
>     I would at least like to land on the front page as someone
>     uninformed about OSGEO and see visually what this OSGEO thing is and
>     see a gallery / slider / whatever of the outputs produced by their
>     participating projects.
> 
> 
> ​The website is actually on the todo list. I think the activities are
> led by Ian Edwards. For details see
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/webcom/2016-February/002372.html

Fully agreed, important point.

All the best.

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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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