This document summarizes the notes from a UK QGIS User Group meeting in Scotland on March 19th, 2014. It discusses setting up a UK QGIS user group, connecting members through online platforms, the day's presentations on QGIS evangelism, performance enhancements, and data connections. A poll found most members were willing to pay for workshops and a subscription. There was also discussion on raising funds and how to apportion them between the core QGIS project and the UK user group.

1. UK QGIS User Group
Scotland
#ukqgis #loveqgis
19th March 2014

2. HEALTH WARNING
You may become addicted
to what you are about to see
today.
Enjoy!

3. 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

4. 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

6. Connecting…
• https://plus.google.com/commu
nities/113949150549951715823
?hl=en-GB
• Tweeting at @ukqgis
• Blog at
http://ukqgis.wordpress.com
• https://github.com/UK-QGIS
• Even on YouTube

7. Today!
• 10:30 - Neil Benny, QGIS evangelism

8. 11:30 – Mike Saunt, Astun Technology

9. 12:00 Martin Dobias, Lutra
QGIS performance enhancements

10. 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

11. 15:00 Charley Glynn, OS

12. 15:30 Heikki Vesanto, thinkWhere
• Data connections_

13. 16:00

14. Drinks
The Meadowpark, upstairs
0.6 mile
11 min

15. Thank-you to Alan and Fiona and
thinkWhere for hosting the day
www.thinkwhere.com

16. UK QGIS User Group
Scotland
#ukqgis #loveqgis
19th March 2014

17. 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?

18. 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)

19. 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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creamer: ‘milk’,
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21. Thank-you to Alan and Fiona and
thinkWhere for hosting the day
www.thinkwhere.com