[Qgis-psc] Establishing an Official QGIS User Group Philippines [Steps to Take]

Fri Oct 30 11:31:56 PDT 2020

Hi Martin,

In QGIS Indonesia we have several channels:

1. Telegram, the most active one, and the discussion are healthy. There are
some spammers, but adding a bot really helps.
2. Facebook group. There is one official (from QGIS ID), and there are some
unofficial. One of them even has ~4800 members. The contents mostly are
people sharing their YouTube/blog tutorials, selling course, data,
software, etc. But, there are some good discussions also (1 in 20 probably).
3. Twitter and Instagram, mostly for sharing events or news but sometimes
people contact us from these two channels. Surprisingly, Instagram has a
better "reach" compared to Twitter in our case. We even make a mapping
competition through Instagram.
4. Mailing list. Not working at all here :D
5. WhatsApp is not enough for us
6. YouTube, we do some talk and tutorial about QGIS from our community. I
think we also use Facebook Live for streaming.

Best Regards

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:58 PM Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Here in Slovakia there has also been increased interest to form a QGIS
> user group, and I was wondering if other user groups had any thoughts on
> what channels work for them and what channels don't.
>
> Mailing lists seem to work fine for the "core" QGIS community, but they
> are perhaps seen as too old fashioned for many people :-) Facebook is a
> place where many people are already, making it easier to gather a community
> and get news to the people - but of course with all the cons that Andreas
> mentioned.
>
> So I am curious - what do others use? Slack? Discord? Telegram? WhatsApp?
> Gitter? Instagram? TikTok? :-)
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 10:56 AM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Ben Hur,
>>
>> Thank you so much for your efforts in maintaining an "unofficial" QGIS
>> user group in the Philippines - and for your willingness to turn this
>> effort into an "official" user group.
>>
>> Some important things:
>>
>>    - It would be great if you could organize a group of active people
>>    driving the effort besides you, e.g. form a small board of dedicated
>>    people. It would be good if the work could be distributed between several
>>    people besides you
>>    - Please try to register the country level QGIS domain - qgis.ph -
>>    make sure that this domain is not "owned" by a company, but by the local
>>    user group.
>>    - Try to establish regular meetings (currently probably primarily
>>    online, but later also "in person" meetings) with presentations and
>>    workshops
>>    - If feasible and doable it would be good to establish a local
>>    official association (or similar) and hand over ownership of the domain
>>    name to that association
>>    - Facebook is ok to use, but please don't use it as the "only"
>>    channel. Facebook is quite restrictive and politically not neutral at all
>>    (at multiple occasions Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that they would oppose the
>>    Democrats in the US, because they would want to put regulations on data
>>    privacy and probably start antitrust measurements). It is also really
>>    problematic regarding privacy (collecting user data without their consent).
>>    Ideally you could find an alternative channel besides Facebook for your
>>    discussion (don't know if this is feasible).
>>    - Finally: please send the name and contact of the "official contact"
>>    of your group to Marco Bernasocchi (marco at qgis.org). That would
>>    probably be you?
>>
>> Let us know if you want further assistance and greetings,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 04:16, Ben Hur Pintor <bnhr.xyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I hope this email finds you all in good health and in good spirits.
>>>
>>> My name is Ben Hur and I'm a QGIS user and FOSS4G advocate from the
>>> Philippines. I'm the creator and admin of an unofficial QGIS User Group
>>> Philippines on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/qgis.ph) which
>>> I created to have a safe and open avenue for Filipino QGIS users,
>>> developers, and enthusiasts to share their knowledge and love for QGIS and
>>> FOSS4G. Our group has around 2K members and is still growing. Aside from
>>> this, I organize and volunteer for local FOSS4G and QGIS-related
>>> initiatives here in the Philippines like Pista ng Mapa (
>>> https://www.osgeo.org/events/pista-ng-mapa/) and MaptimeDiliman (
>>> https://www.facebook.com/maptimediliman). I'm also the proprietor of
>>> BNHR -- a Small QGIS Sustaining Member and Certifying Organization.
>>>
>>> I'm sending this email on behalf of my community because we've long
>>> planned to organize ourselves as an official user group. Recently, I was
>>> inspired by our Southeast Asian neighbors from Indonesia and believe that
>>> we can bring another perspective to the global community.
>>>
>>> I read https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html and would
>>> like to ask for guidance on what steps to take next.
>>>
>>> Your help and replies would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> *Maraming salamat! *(Thank you very much!)
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Ben Hur
>>>
>>> ---
>>> *Ben Hur S. Pintor | BNHR <https://bnhr.xyz>*
>>> bnhr.xyz
>>> hi at bnhr.xyz
>>>
>>>
>>>
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