30/03/2012

The QGIS Forum is closing

Stack Exchange with 'QGIS' search
Forum QGIS akan tutup

Sejak 25.3.2012 selepas melawati plugins.qgis.org, saya merasa terdapatnya perkembangan semasa. Hari ni, berita hagat seperti diatas ternyata pada Forum QGIS dimana mulai 30.3.2012, ianya akan tutup dan hanya berfungsi sebagai laman bacaan sebelum dipindahkan thread-thread yang penting sebagai FAQ. Sebaliknya, pelawat yang ingin tahu lebih mengenai QGIS diminta pergi ke gis.stackexchange dan membuat search "qgis' seperti dibawah. Sedihnya melihat forum ni tutup kerana ianya merupakan tiang siber kedua bagi QGIS. Ini tidak bermakna QGIS akan gulung tikar cuma usaha dan kemungkinan besar, input kewangan sedang disalurkan kepada perkara-perkara yang lebih utama. Perubahan bukan perkara baru. Mereka yang kerap ke laman QGIS juga perhatikan Blog QGIS telah tutup digantikan dengan Planet QGIS serta bagi yang berminat chat: adanya freenode IRC. Well, masih ada QGIS MALAYSIA untuk sanjungkan bendera QGIS flag di Internet dan jangan kata saya tak nasihat kerana terdapat banyak rujukan yang baik pada "Links" kat QGIS MALAYSIA.

Terkini: Perkara ni telah saya bincang kat Linkedin dan Werner M berkata "The main reason for not having our "own" forum is that we just do focus the development into QGIS and we do not have enough developers maintaining all those (even free) forum software. It takes a lot of time to invest to keep the forum SPAM free (thankfully Anita did that in the past) but I also see the investment of time to just answer questions is more valueable and important than maintaining a forum keeping it spamfree (without any time left to answer questions) stackexchange is a very good place to answer questions and the best thing is .. THEY are taking care of keeping it spamfree."

The QGIS Forum is closing

Since the 25.3.2012 after visiting plugins.qgis.org, I felt movement in the air. Today, a visit to the QGIS Forum is greeted with a hot news as shown above. It appears the QGIS Forum will close beginning 30.3.2012 as a read only site "until such time that significant threads have been migrated to a FAQ". Instead viewers interested in qgis matters are asked to go to gis.stackexchange and make a "qgis' in the search box as shown below. I am sad to see it go because to me it has always been a second cyber pillar for QGIS. This in no way implies QGIS is going to shrivel up soon merely that efforts and probably financial input are being concentrated on more critical issues. But changes are not new. Those who frequent QGIS homepage will have noticed the QGIS Blog gave way to a QGIS Planet and for chatterboxs: a freenode IRC chat Well, there is still QGIS MALAYSIA to champion the QGIS flag over the Internet and don't say I didn't tell you there are many good references under "Links" at QGIS MALAYSIA.

Update: I discussed this matter at Linkedin and Werner M. replied that "The main reason for not having our "own" forum is that we just do focus the development into QGIS and we do not have enough developers maintaining all those (even free) forum software. It takes a lot of time to invest to keep the forum SPAM free (thankfully Anita did that in the past) but I also see the investment of time to just answer questions is more valueable and important than maintaining a forum keeping it spamfree (without any time left to answer questions) stackexchange is a very good place to answer questions and the best thing is .. THEY are taking care of keeping it spamfree."

8 comments:

  1. Pak Abbas,

    I share your pain! Now we are down to these three QGIS support areas (that I know of):


    http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Quantum-GIS-User-f4125267.html
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/qgis
    http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis

    Anyway, I'm in KL until May 02. (Writing this from Kuching right now.) I know you have a busy schedule; might you have time to meet up?

    My wife and I will be back in November for six or seven months.

    Howard Yamaguchi
    hayamaguchi@gmail.com
    http://www.townshipgis.com
    011 1567 4817

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    1. Oh goody for 2 other links you mentioned here. I am sure others members too will appreciate that. As you will see in my email to you, my calendar for next month shows I will move around to give QGIS training at Kangar-Perlis, Bukit Tinggi-Pahang and Ipoh-Perak so if I cannot make it in April, maybe November onwards is a good time there is more time to schedule a meet.

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  2. Tuan, boleh buat thread tentang tempat tempat yang bagus untuk belajar GIS? Contohnya untuk sambung belajar master in GIS or kos yang seangkatan dengannya. TQ

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    1. Perkara ni adalah dinamik maka sukar nak syor satu-satu tempat. Saya lihat 2 isu: pertama, peralatan dan persisan dan dalam hal ni. Kalau Universiti install Quantum GIS isu perisian GIS adalah non isu tetapi perisian GIS memerlukan komputer yang ada power macam gaming pc (Sekurangnya Quad core plus 8 GB RAM) kalau tak ada, don't meet my requirement. Kedua, pensyarah, sama ada pensyarah-pensyarah familiar dengan teknik analisis untuk mengatasi satu isu atau buat-buat tahu tak pasti. Kalau pensyarah tak pernah godek-godek OSS GIS macam QGIS saya akan letak tanda soalan pada pengalamannya. Ask then you will know...

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  3. Tuan ada kenal x pensyarah yang hebat hebat tentang GIS ni di Mana mana universiti di Malaysia. Tolonglah tuan bagi kontek supaya saya dapat sambung belajar. Minat gila ni GIS.

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  4. Tuan UniGIS Dr.Laili ok x?

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    1. Depends. Isu utama bukannya pilihan Universiti tapi apakah bidang pengkhususan tesis GIS saudara dan sama ada yang diutamakan analisis by raster, vektor atau both, kemudian pi bincanglah dengan Pensyarah Kanan fakulti yang saudara berminat. They are the best person to recommend ....saya bukan Mr. Know-it-all.

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