[Qgis-psc] News feed

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Wed Oct 30 01:07:19 PDT 2019


Thanks Matthias for the suggestion.
Don't we have a small banner advertising when a new version is available?

Il 30/10/19 08:12, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> What about release announcements?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> On 10/30/19 7:42 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>> thanks for the fast response
>>
>> Il 30/10/19 07:33, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>>
>>> I would include user survey announcements in this list
>> agreed, thanks for the suggestion
>>
>>> I disagree a bit on 1 and 2 - Ale introduced a geofencing capability for
>>> the news feed so for example Australian User Group meeting can be shown
>>> to just people in Australia. Posts can also be language specific. I
>>> think we should accept any local announcement post after PSC approval
>>> and keep the rule as simple as that?
>> if we can target specific groups of users, then I fully agree with
>> adding local content
>>
>>> We had also agreed that we don’t want to include general planet.qgis.org
>>> <http://planet.qgis.org> feed in there, but rather use the platform to
>>> share what goes into our blog and other moderated content.
>> ok
>>
>>> PS. Sponsorships are dead, long live sustaining members :-)
>> Sustaining membership should not routinely advertised, I think (I
>> imagine a user would get bored by seeing this). I meant soliciting
>> sponsorship for specific purposes, similar to crowdfunding.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>>> On 30 Oct 2019, at 06:14, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
>>>> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> AFAIK we don't have a clear policy about the news feed. I propose to
>>>> accept only:
>>>> 1. global Contributors Meetings announcements (not local ones)
>>>> 2. global QGIS Days (not local ones)
>>>> 3. requests for sponsorship
>>>> 4. crowdfunding announcements
>>>> To be included, each 3 and 4 entry have to be accepted by the majority
>>>> of PSC
>>>> After a first period (6 months), according to user feedback, we can
>>>> re-evaluate these guidelines.
>>>> Opinions?
>>>> Cheers.
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