[Qgis-psc] Announcing courses

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

Hi,

On 31/05/2016 07:45, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> Wow - 20 to 50 companies offering QGIS courses in France. How comes -
> these companies do not contribute more to QGIS?

They usually offer QGIS training courses as well as other software,
mostly proprietary. Almost all companies initially providing MapInfo
training now offer some kind of QGIS training.

I totally agree that they should contribute in some way to QGIS, at the
very least file bugs and feedback from their trainings. Language barrier
is probably an explanation, but definitely not a reason.

Thinking about a way to raise awareness on contribution from their part
may be something important, but I do not have a lot of ideas on how this
would be done at best.
Among some ideas :
* Having a dedicated page for these with a link on the download page
* Inserting a specific text on this in the "QGIS tips & tricks" window

> 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. 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.

Local chapter can be a good option indeed.
Vincent

> 
> 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>
>>> <mailto: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>
>>> <mailto: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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