[Qgis-psc] News feed

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

Does that mean that despite my adding of geofencing around Switzerland, now
everybody sees my german news item about the Postgis day in Zurich?

Theoretically, I could use the language filter, but the language filter is
not so desirable in my opinion, because I know an awful lot of QGIS users
in Switzerland who have set the language to english - just because they
know english well and all of them wouldn't see the news item if they
switched to english.

Thanks and greetings,
Andreas

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 06:30, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 16:33, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I would include user survey announcements in this list - it was one of
> the key reasons we introduced the feed. We want to get to know our user
> base, what their concerns are and usage habits are. Inviting them to join
> opt-in surveys and sharing project news through the feed are a good way to
> achieve that.
> >
> >
> > 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?
>
> It's not that simple. The backend has support for geofencing, but we
> currently don't have any way to geolocate users to take advantage of
> this (aside from manually setting a qsetting value to your location).
> So we'd first need a way to locate users... which would be
> super-useful anyway, e.g. to allow project templates shipped with QGIS
> to open by default somewhere close to the user's location...
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > We had also agreed that we don’t want to include general planet.qgis.org
> feed in there, but rather use the platform to share what goes into our blog
> and other moderated content.
> >
> >
> > PS. Sponsorships are dead, long live sustaining members :-)
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On 30 Oct 2019, at 06:14, Paolo Cavallini <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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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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