[Qgis-psc] Announcing courses

[Anita Graser]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> Wow - 20 to 50 companies offering QGIS courses in France. How comes -
> these companies do not contribute more to QGIS?
>
> I was initially thinking that we should allow course announcements to the
> users list, but I now, if I hear how many companies are offering these
> courses, I agree that it would be too much.
>
​Same here. I didn't think we'd have to expect that kind of traffic ...

Best wishes,
Anita

​





> Maybe the mailing lists of the local user groups are the better vehicle in
> this case. In the Swiss QGIS user group we have a calendar of events and
> announce courses on the Swiss QGIS users mailing list.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2016-05-30 19:26, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would be against sending announcement of training courses to the list.
> There is currently something like 20 to 50 companies just in France
> giving QGIS training courses. I think it would very soon look like a
> spam festival, and bore users more than give them valuable information.
>
> Or maybe have a qgis-promotion list, where one could post announces for
> new products, training courses or job offers related to QGIS.
>
> The trafic on -user and -dev is already high, please keep it as readable
> as possible.
>
> Vincent
>
> On 30/05/2016 19:17, Anita Graser wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com
> <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi
> On 25 May 2016, at 09:37, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
>
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> ​>​
>
> do we have a policy on announcing qgis courses on the mailing lists?
> I don't think we have any policy. By the way we should write down all
>
> our policies in a central place I think so that we can point people to
> it. What are your thoughts RE training? I think it's ok to send it to
> the user list, probably a bit noisy for the dev list.
>
> ​+1​ I think it's ok to use the user list to announce training courses.
>
> Should we put these policies in the
> FAQ http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/faq/index.html or under
> organization http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/index.html?
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
>
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