Hi Nyall, Thank you for the proposals, I like them both a lot, needless to say how I also miss the QGIS hackfests too.
As a side note, during the last PSC meeting we started talking about the possibility of having in-person meetings again in the near future: stay tuned!!! On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:36 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi PSC, QGIS dev list members! > > I would like to kick-start some discussion on possible channels that > we could use to (hopefully temporarily!!) replace our in-person > contributor meetups. > > Kartoza have been doing a brilliant job at connecting with our user > base through their QGIS Open Day initiative. While I've personally > found this to be a good replacement for user conference type events, I > feel like there's a need for a focused QGIS contributors virtual > meetup. > > I think one of the reasons the QGIS contributor community has > historically had such a welcoming and friendly feel could be directly > attributed to the in-person hackfest events. I'm sure I'm not the only > one who is feeling the absence of these! (I would seriously love to be > back in Nodebo, hanging out with you all in the woodcutters bar and > trying to hammer a nail into a stump of wood :P ) > > While it wouldn't be a replacement for these in-person meetups, I'd > love to see a semi-regular "Friday night drinks" style video chat for > QGIS contributors. The intention would be that this is > social/relationship focused, rather than a "QGIS Planning session" > meetup. > > Would anyone else be interested in this? > > On this note, I would also love to see some form of > contributor-focused text chat room for QGIS contributors. While > there's plenty of chat rooms around for QGIS users, these tend to > attract toward "how do I do this in QGIS" questions. For this reason I > personally avoid them, as I'm looking more for a "random social chat > with other QGIS contributors" channel where I'm not feeling like I'm > there to help users out. Would others be interested in this too? > > Thanks for your thoughts! > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it
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