<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Mats Elfström <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mats.elfstrom@giskraft.com" target="_blank">mats.elfstrom@giskraft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><div><div>Hi!<br></div>I am sad to say that I disagree strongly with the views expressed in some replies to my earlier post.<br><br></div>I am a kid of 63 who has found that Facebook and Twitter are important and invaluable sources and platforms for both communication and information. <br>And kids of a younger age are, and must be our target audience. I do not know about you abroad, but in Sweden there is an alarming lack of students and graduates in the geospatial sciences. It is now hard to find educated young people to fill the gaps when us old kids retire. I try to evangelize QGIS as good as I can and have opportunity to, and an FB page needs no explanation, while mailing lists are an unknown entity. Among younger kids, i mean.<br></div><br>Second, I am a volunteer. I run a Facebook page for QGIS in swedish, and try to pick up news on QGIS development and QGIS use of a general interest. Time is a factor, of course, but using FB I need not spend any time to maintain userlists, login procedures, web servers etc. I can spend the time I can offer to maintain the content of the page, which is what should matter in the end.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">An I do not think that 20000+ FB QGIS likers deserve to be so lightly disregarded.<br><br></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Mats,<br><br></div><div>what's the problem here? No need for flames.<br><br></div><div>Does anybody refused your help in spreading the word on FB?<br clear="all"></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not on FB and I will probably never be, but I've absolutely nothing against you promoting QGIS on FB, if you feel like doing it, just do it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What I don't understand is why you criticize this ML, if you don't find it useful or you don't like it, just unsubscribe.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank">www.itopen.it</a></div>
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