[OSGeo-UK] [External] Re: Fwd: QGIS release name from UK user group

[Barry Rowlingson]

Nick, thanks for taking this on and making a decision!

I was secretly hoping we'd go for QGIS Morecambe Bay (as the geographic
centroid of the UK) since its probably my one chance of having my house on
the QGIS splash screen!

Barry


On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM Nick Bearman via UK <uk at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

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> Hi All,
>
> Thank you for all of your input into the discussion. I certainly learnt
> some new things and I hope you found the discussion
> interesting/useful/something to distract you from whatever boring task you
> may have been doing at the time.
>
> Taking into account the discussion, as OSGeo:UK Chair I have decided to
> use the location of "Maidenhead".
>
> I have passed this on to Anita and you should see QGIS Maidenhead on your
> desktop soon. Simon has happily taken on the task of finding a nice
> historical map.
>
> As Anita said, they are working through the user groups chronologically (
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html), so QGIS UK
> (Scotland) will be in after six more user groups, and QGIS UK (Wales/Cymru)
> will be two more after that. Get your thinking caps on!
>
> And some very non physical, bragging-rites only OSGeo:UK prizes from
> suggestions that amused me / I found interesting:
>
> Obscurest link to GIS: James Scott-Brown: (another interesting historical
> geospatial link to Maidenhead is the Maidenhead Locator System [1], though
> its usage is mostly limited to the amateur radio community)
>
> Obscurest word definition: Barry Rowlingson ("Maidenhead" is also a term
> for part of female anatomy, related to virginity. It might possibly be
> triggering, but I don't know how well-known or archaic the usage is.
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maidenhead
> https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/maidenhead.)
>
>
> Best marketing ploy: Paul Whittle (Also, if we are wanting to put in a bid
> for hosting another FOSS4G in the future; would it be worth picking a
> potential venue and then submitting that location as our recommendation?)
>
> Best lateral thinking: Sam Franklin (Just an idea, I see the convention is
> a town or city name, but is there anything stopping us going for a street
> name? If so, how about "Broad Street
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg>" ?
> Personally, I'd love to see that map on the QGIS splash screen one day! :-))
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
> On 15/01/2024 11:02, Nick Bearman via UK wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Hopefully this is a nice Monday morning email to make you smile :-)
>
> The QGIS UK user group has been asked to suggest name for the next QGIS
> release. Usually they are named after the locations of user meetings, but
> since they have had more releases than user meetings, they are working
> through the user groups in turn to ask for suggestions (see Anita's email
> below for details).
>
> Si Miles has suggested "Maidenhead":
>
> Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council was one of the first UK local
> authorities to move to QGIS (at version 1.8!) back in 2010/11. It was while
> working at Windsor and Maidenhead that with the support of Simon Miles &
> Matt Travis the UK QGIS user group was born. Maidenhead even hosted the
> first ever UK user group meeting. Windsor and Maidenhead also contributed
> financial to many an QGIS plugin and was also a bronze sponsor for a long
> as I was there. Finally, Maidenhead hosted many of the Carry On movies, and
> has the oldest or is one of the oldest football clubs in the UK, if not
> world! Might have to fact check that one though!
>
> Windsor and Maidenhead is the name of the council ("Royal Borough of
> Windsor and Maidenhead") but Maidenhead is their HQ, and Anita says a
> single name is better than a double name.
>
> Maidenhead is certainly not a tourist hot spot for the UK (sorry Si!) but
> I think it has a nice QGIS history and sounds like a good choice to me.
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions or comments?
>
> Anita needs to know by Fri 19th, so I will make a decision and let her
> know on Thurs 18th Jan.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 6:41 pm, Anita Graser <anita at qgis.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you certainly know, QGIS releases usually get their names from
>> locations of QGIS developer meetings.
>>
>> Since we have more releases than developer meetings, we have decided to
>> reach out to our country user groups to select additional release names.
>> The country order is determined by the founding date of the respective user
>> groups.
>>
>> Since QGIS UK is next on our list, I'm reaching out to you to ask you for
>> suggestions for release names. The suggestions should be place names in the
>> UK (and ideally be related to the user group).
>>
>> Besides the name, we will also need a historical map of the location
>> which we can use for the release splash screen.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to your suggestions. Please don't hesitate if you
>> have any questions.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anita Graser
>> QGIS PSC Vice chair
>>
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