[Qgis-psc] News feed
Marco Bernasocchi
marco at qgis.org
Thu Oct 31 02:55:26 PDT 2019
Hi Andreas, it looks like it is like you say. I tried by using some vpns
and by changing the system location and I always see the german announce.
We should probably take it down for now to avoid people getting the
feeling the news are irelewant toi them
Cheers Marco
On 31.10.19 08:29, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 16:33, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com
> <mailto: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 <http://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
> <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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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim Sutton
> >
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