[Qgis-psc] Renaming developer meeting to contributor meeting

[Andreas Neumann]

No - I don't have such data. 

To me it is more a "symbolic" thing. Of course we are not actively
shooing away people. 

But it would be a signal that we are actively also seeking non-developer
contributors. 

If people agree, we can start using the new name with the Bukarest
meeting. And at the same time we can actively reach out to
non-developers for the Bukarest meeting - because of FOSS4G, there will
be a good pool of non-developers who might want to contribute. 

In A Coruña I don't think there will be a shortage of
developers/contributors. The list is already long and it will be a bit
of a challenge to feed all of them and finance the whole meeting. But
we'll manage it together ;-) 

Andreas 

On 2019-02-07 10:22, Luigi Pirelli wrote:

> just for my curiosity, do you have any real data about people that does not participate because of the name? what %?  
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> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 09:30, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote: 
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>> 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. 
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