[Qgis-user] Closure of forum

[Bob Basques]

All, 

Throwing my two cents in here.  I think I've posted to the QGIS list
maybe once or twice over the years.  I much prefer the Email lists over
anything else.   I can read at my liesure and I can read everything I'm
interested in.  Forums are a bear to search for stuff.  Although, they
do have a search function. 

I think a forum is better suited to a Dev list if it's a large
population, simply to segment the different topics.  But a smaller group
is likely going to use a single list to communicate. 

bobb 




>>> Mats Elfström<mats.elfstrom at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi!
According to qgis.org, there are ten (10) current mailing lists for
Qgis.
If there is a need to fragment the communication that much, maybe a
traditional forum with subgroups would be a better idea than my proposal
for a Google group. I feel mailing lists are outdated.
There are a lot of forum services to choose from.

Regards, Mats.E


Den 1 april 2012 10:11 skrev MORREALE Jean Roc
<jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:



The point of the forum closure is to avoid fragmentation of the
greatest and the rarest resource we have to share with the users :
brains.

So unless you can keep a google group in sync with the official list ,
using a new place will not improve the situation in this regard.

Le 01/04/2012 08:50, Mats Elfström a écrit :



Hi! Simply find Google Groups and look there for QGISGRASS. Then
apply for membership. At the moment, only members can view topics.
Personally, I'm in favor of open groups, but this is at the managers
discretion. Making the group free to read, but with restricted
posting is a good alternative.

Google Groups works very well for the MapInfo forum, MapInfo-L, and
the FME forum FME Talk. I am a member of both. Every participant can
choose how to take part in the forum, from receiving every post as
e-mail, abridged daily summaries, or only reading it on the web.

Regards, Mats.E



Den 31 mars 2012 20:50 skrev Mark Hall <mhall89446 at att.net

<mailto:mhall89446 at att.net>>: 


How does one join the QGISGRASS group?



*From:* Mats Elfström <mats.elfstrom at gmail.com
<mailto:mats.elfstrom at gmail.com>> *To:* Nick Hopton
<nhopton at gmail.com <mailto:nhopton at gmail.com>> *Cc:*
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> *Sent:*
Sat, March 31, 2012 10:30:52 AM *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Closure of 

forum

Hi! Start a Google Qgis group, or join the existing QGISGRASS group.
That way all is taken care of, and no one needs to host or administer
the thing. It could be fully open, or for registered users only.

Regards, Mats.E


Den 31 mars 2012 19:10 skrev Nick Hopton <nhopton at gmail.com

<mailto:nhopton at gmail.com>>: 


I read QGIS-User on Nabble, where the posts on the closure of the
forum appear somehow to have got mixed up with the Sextante thread,
so forgive me for starting a new thread.

The closure is a done deal I suppose but I think it will be harmful
to QGIS. Forum users are now being pointed to Stack Exchange but many
of them will, I believe, take one look at Stack Exchange and run a
mile. The Stack Exchange GIS FAQ makes it quite clear that SE is
intended for "...cartographers, database administrators, geographers,
programmers, and anyone interested in or using GIS professionally."

I don't fit into any one of these categories, nor I think would many
of the people who used to post on the forum. They tended to be
newcomers to QGIS, or people who make maps and use GIS as just a part
of their job, or as part of a recreational activity, or any
combination of the three. Some of them will be young and engaged in
things like school projects. It would be nice to think that these
people will shift to SE, but I can't see this happening. But we'll
soon be able to tell, if things work as hoped a lot of newby-type
questions should soon start appearing on SE. It will be interesting
to see the responses.
 



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