[Qgis-psc] News feed

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Andreas,
the language filter prevents the 'Finnish annoying factor' Matthias
explained. I would think having your QGIS suddenly speaking Chinese or
Thai could even be scary for someone.
More generally, some news should ideally be translated (e.g. release
announcements), some geofenced (e.g. local conferences.
Of course, we have to deal with our limited resources.
Cheers.

Il 31/10/19 16:15, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> The language based filter is already possible. But as I explained
> before, it is not very useful.
> 
> The language of a user does not necessarily have much to do with the
> region or country where a feed item is meant to be distributed.
> 
> In general, I think a lot of users run QGIS in english, but live in many
> different countries, even if the native language of their country is a
> different one than english. Just because their english is good enough,
> all the tutorials, blog posts, etc. are usually in english and sometimes
> the translations in other languages might even be confusing.
> 
> For Switzerland, I know for sure that many (or even most?) users run
> QGIS in english, but english isn't an official language there. Also
> using just one language as a filter, doesn't suit Switzerland well with
> 4 official languages. Events in Switzerland are sometimes multilingual.
> 
> Also - a QGIS event in Australia - might not interest people with QGIS
> set to english in most other parts of the world. Again, the language
> filter is not useful here.
> 
> The only really useful filter is the Geofence. I wouldn't mind, removing
> the language based filter from feed.qgis.org alltogether. I think in
> most cases it is useless.



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