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Community
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Introduction
What is a community?
A common definition of community emerged as a group of people with diverse characteristics who are linked by social ties, share common perspectives, and engage in joint action in geographical locations or settings. - Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
So there are many ArcGIS users sharing content and helping each other on many channels, locations, ... Many Esri employees also participate on these communities in their spare time sharing contents, helping other users but also asking questions.
Here you will find a compilation of channels and contents.
Global communities
The official channel maintained by Esri for the global community of ArcGIS users is GeoNet, but there are other channel were you will find content generated by the community:
| Community channel | User type | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| geonet.esri.com | Any | +250K Q&A, articles, ... |
| Youtube | Any | +250K videos |
| gis.stackexchange.com | Any | +40K Q&A |
| bit.ly/our-ideas | Any | +13K ideas |
| StackOverflow | Developers | +4.7K Q&A |
| esri.com/arcgis-blog | Any | +2.5K articles |
| github.com/esri | Developers | +1.1K Q&A |
More:
Early Adopter Community
Learn more about the: Early Adopter Community
Local communities
There are many initiatives for developers running simultaneously around Esri Technologies worldwide.
Colombia
- GeoGeeks on Meetup
- GeoGeeksCo on Facebook
- Geo_Geeks on Twitter
- GeoGeeks on Youtube
- GeoGeeks on Colombia
Germany
Netherlands
Spain
Developers
Esri Spain runs most of their initiatives in Spanish and online, but sometimes they also do some in english and in person.
- Geo-Developers on Meetup
- Geo-Developers on Slack
- Geo-Developers on Github
- Geo-Developers Website
- GeoDevelopers on Youtube
- @esri-es on Github
- Developers Blog in Spanish
- GeoDev Spain at Geonet
- geodev.slack.com
More initiatives: Slack, etc.
GeoMentors
GeoMentors: Help teachers bring Geography to life with ArcGIS
UK
GeoMentors
GeoMentors: Help teachers bring Geography to life with ArcGIS
USA
- GeoDev on Facebook
- GeoDev on GeoNet
- @EsriGeoDev on Twitter
- GeoDev Northeast at Meetup
- GeoDev Northern Rockies at Meetup
- GeoDev Midwest at Meetup
- GeoDev Southeast at Meetup
- GeoDev Pacific at Meetup
- GeoDev Arizona at Meetup
- GeoDev California at Meetup
- GeoDev Carolinas at Meetup
- GeoDev Colorado at Meetup
- GeoDev Oregon at Meetup
- GeoDev Texas at Meetup
- GeoDev Washington at Meetup
People you should know
You can find all the developer advocates at github.io/arcgis-experts, but you might also want to know who is the people leading this initiatives (the Developer Program Managers):
| Photo | Name | Country | Github | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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David Martinez | USA | @davidjmart | dmartine |
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Sean McGee | UK | @hertswestuk | @smcgee2 |
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Raul Jimenez | Spain | @hhkaos | @hhkaos |
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Mark Jagt | Netherlands | n.a. | @mjagt |
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Deiro González | Colombia | @deironica | n.a. |
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Stephan Künster | Germany | @skuenster | n.a. |
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Vijay Kumar | India | @vijaysiwal | n.a. |
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Takahiro Kamiya | Japan | @freedom_tk | n.a. |
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Kevin Escalera | Panama | @kescalera84 | @kescalera84 |