qgis uk: introduction and feedback

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

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Thank-you to Alan and Fiona and thinkWhere for hosting the day

www.thinkwhere.com