[Qgis-psc] Renaming developer meeting to contributor meeting

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Thu Feb 7 00:35:04 PST 2019


I like this, +1
Thanks for the suggestion.

Il 7 febbraio 2019 09:30:34 CET, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> ha scritto:
>Hi, 
>
>At the Swiss QGIS user group general assembly we discussed how the QGIS
>community could be more inclusive and attract contributors next to
>developers. 
>
>Among other suggestions, one of the suggestions was to rename the
>"developer meeting" to "contributor meeting". I know, I was the one who
>suggested renaming it from "hackfest" to "developer meeting" (on
>request
>of my past boss who hosted the meeting in Zurich back then), to make it
>look more serious (e.g. for employers who might pay for attending a
>developer meeting, but not for a hackfest) - but what do you think
>about
>renaming it again to "contributor meeting"? 
>
>As a first step to be more inclusive for non developers to participate
>and contribute to the QGIS project? THere are so many possible
>contributions next to being a developer, such as documenting,
>translating, working on the marketing material, webpage, collecting and
>publishing case studies, etc. etc. 
>
>Greetings,
>Andreas

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