[Qgis-psc] Renaming developer meeting to contributor meeting

[Luigi Pirelli]

just for my curiosity, do you have any real data about people that does not
participate because of the name? what %?

Luigi Pirelli

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 09:30, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> 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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