[Qgis-psc] News feed

Thu Oct 31 03:05:44 PDT 2019

Hi Marco,

I wouldn't take it down. Let's show users some activity (it will disappear
anyway in 2 weeks when the event is gone). They can easily ignore it, if
they are not interested.

Meanwhile: let's try to implement a way to get access to the user location
(coordinate or country). The server seems ready for geofencing, but QGIS as
a client not.

What I don't understand: the QGIS news panel is technically a web-browser -
right? A web-browser send and IP and an IP can be geolocalized by some
external services (with some uncertainty of course). Something along the
lines of https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/contrib/gis/geoip/ -
Would this be possible?

Andreas

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 10:55, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> 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> 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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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Tim Sutton
>> >
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