qgis uk user group - introduction and feedback
TRANSCRIPT
UK QGIS User Group Scotland
#ukqgis #loveqgis
19th March 2014
HEALTH WARNING
You may become addicted to what you are about to see
today.
Enjoy!
See if you can find someone today who:
– Is addicted to crème eggs – Might be asparagus, might not – Is an Olympian – Loves tattoos – Is from Africa – Was a piper but is okay now – Likes malted drinks, like
whisky – Doesn’t have long to go till
graduation – Has a new puppy – Has a purple thing going – Has been to Azerbaijan
recently – Can tell you about
paleaoecology – Was born in the year of the
Monkey (Earth? Metal?
Water?) – Is an international QGIS
trainer – Can skate backwards – Didn’t know what a
cartographer was but designed VectorMap Local anyway
– Is crowdsourcing local history – Loves gherkins – Does things on mountains
most of us wouldn’t – Has a party boat for six – Was parked in by Cilla Black – Is a QGIS core developer – Is AGI volunteer of the year
UK QGIS user group? How?
Simon Miles: Let’s set up a QGIS user group in the UK
Yeah, that’s a good idea: Matt Travis
Connecting…
• https://plus.google.com/communities/113949150549951715823?hl=en-GB
• Tweeting at @ukqgis
• Blog at http://ukqgis.wordpress.com
• https://github.com/UK-QGIS
• Even on YouTube
Today!
• 10:30 - Neil Benny, QGIS evangelism
11:30 – Mike Saunt, Astun Technology
12:00 Martin Dobias, Lutra
QGIS performance enhancements
After lunch
13:30 Mike Saunt Land Terrier
Management
13:50 Pete Wells Developing
with QGIS: What’s possible
14:10 Ross McDonald User Group
15:00 Charley Glynn, OS
15:30 Heikki Vesanto, thinkWhere
• Data connections_
16:00
Drinks
The Meadowpark, upstairs
0.6 mile
11 min
Thank-you to Alan and Fiona and thinkWhere for hosting the day
www.thinkwhere.com
UK QGIS User Group Scotland
#ukqgis #loveqgis
19th March 2014
Quick poll…
• Who has used QGIS before?
• Who is using QGIS 2.2 Valmiera?
• Did today’s meeting format work?
• More or less geek factor?
• Once or twice a year?
• “paid for” workshops?
• Streams – technical and presentations
• Donations and fund-raising?
Results from User Poll
80% would pay for a ticket
48% would pay between £10 - £15
52% would pay a subscription to join the group
60% would be willing to pay <=£50 IF they had to
(from 25 responses)
Raising Funds
• How do we apportion the funds?
• What % to core QGIS project?
• What % to UK QGIS group?
– Plugin development
– Feature requests
– Defray user group meeting costs
$(‘#coffee’).make({
creamer: ‘milk’,
sweetner: ‘sugar’
}).wakeup();
Thank-you to Alan and Fiona and thinkWhere for hosting the day
www.thinkwhere.com