Support for QGIS Community Engagement & Outreach

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Amey Bagul

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Mar 1, 2026, 9:01:11 AMMar 1
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Hi Ujaval and Team,

It is encouraging to see the active participation across the ongoing initiatives.

I wanted to check if additional support would be helpful on the community engagement side. A structured platform — for example, LinkedIn or Telegram (aligned with existing channels) — could help regularly share contributor recognition, publication highlights, new developments, and acknowledgements. It may also help attract students and early-career GIS professionals to join and contribute.

I would be happy to assist in coordinating and maintaining such efforts in alignment with the team.

I would appreciate your feedback.


  • Best regards,

Amey

Ujaval Gandhi

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Mar 2, 2026, 2:33:25 AMMar 2
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Hi Amey,

We'd love to have your help and input on the content side - sharing the updates on the social channels. @Rajat Rao has been coordinating it so far. I'll add you to the Telegram group for content team and you can coordinate with him.

On the student engagement side, @Aravinth R had similar thoughts on initiating student chapters. Will be good to initiate a discussion among us on how to start. Let's setup a meeting to discuss more.
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Ujaval Gandhi
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Aravinth R

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Mar 3, 2026, 2:52:59 AMMar 3
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  Weekdays from 9:00 to 10:00 PM work for me. If everyone else is comfortable with this time slot, we can schedule the meeting sometime this week.  

SUDARSHAN BHOYAR

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Mar 3, 2026, 5:21:37 AMMar 3
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Hi,
I am planning an outreach program this March for students in Classes 5 to 7 at a local Zila Parishad school.

I’ve already had a very positive meeting with the principal and teachers, and they are excited to introduce the students to mapping. My goal is to create student-specific content, potentially in regional languages, to make it as accessible as possible.

If any of you have suggestions, simple exercise ideas, or existing beginner-friendly resources (especially in Indian languages), I would love to hear them. Additionally, is there a specific format we should use, or any dos and don'ts for submitting a blog post related to this initiative?

with regards.
Sudarshan T. Bhoyar

Deccan Spatial


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Ujaval Gandhi

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Mar 3, 2026, 5:24:09 AMMar 3
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That's great. We will be meeting this week to discuss more about the outreach program. Hope you can join the meeting. Will share a calendar invite with you soon.

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM SUDARSHAN BHOYAR <sudarshan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I am planning an outreach program this March for students in Classes 5 to 7 at a local Zila Parishad school.

I’ve already had a very positive meeting with the principal and teachers, and they are excited to introduce the students to mapping. My goal is to create student-specific content, potentially in regional languages, to make it as accessible as possible.

If any of you have suggestions, simple exercise ideas, or existing beginner-friendly resources (especially in Indian languages), I would love to hear them. Additionally, is there a specific format we should use, or any dos and don'ts for submitting a blog post related to this initiative?

with regards.
Sudarshan T. Bhoyar

Deccan Spatial


On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM Aravinth R <aravinthr...@gmail.com> wrote:
  Weekdays from 9:00 to 10:00 PM work for me. If everyone else is comfortable with this time slot, we can schedule the meeting sometime this week.  
On Monday, March 2, 2026 at 1:03:25 PM UTC+5:30 Ujaval Gandhi wrote:
Hi Amey,

We'd love to have your help and input on the content side - sharing the updates on the social channels. @Rajat Rao has been coordinating it so far. I'll add you to the Telegram group for content team and you can coordinate with him.

On the student engagement side, @Aravinth R had similar thoughts on initiating student chapters. Will be good to initiate a discussion among us on how to start. Let's setup a meeting to discuss more.
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Ujaval Gandhi
Spatial Thoughts



On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM Amey Bagul <ameyb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ujaval and Team,

It is encouraging to see the active participation across the ongoing initiatives.

I wanted to check if additional support would be helpful on the community engagement side. A structured platform — for example, LinkedIn or Telegram (aligned with existing channels) — could help regularly share contributor recognition, publication highlights, new developments, and acknowledgements. It may also help attract students and early-career GIS professionals to join and contribute.

I would be happy to assist in coordinating and maintaining such efforts in alignment with the team.

I would appreciate your feedback.


  • Best regards,

Amey

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SUDARSHAN BHOYAR

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Mar 3, 2026, 5:26:44 AMMar 3
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Sure, I will be there.


with regards.
Sudarshan T. Bhoyar

Deccan Spatial 
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Rajat Rao

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Mar 3, 2026, 5:43:10 AMMar 3
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This sounds really interesting, please share an invite with me as well. Would love to sit in on the meeting and share inputs. Thanks!

Regards,
Rajat

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