[Qgis-psc] News feed

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 30 Oct 2019, at 08:07, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Matthias for the suggestion.
> Don't we have a small banner advertising when a new version is available?

Yes but we could be pointing readers to the changelog and hyping the release so that we get people informed about what new features each release brings.

Regards

Tim


> 
> 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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