[QGIS Commit] r10015 - trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics

svn_qgis at osgeo.org svn_qgis at osgeo.org
Mon Jan 26 00:38:59 EST 2009


Author: timlinux
Date: 2009-01-26 00:38:59 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 10015

Modified:
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
Log:
Initial edits by Tim

Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-25 11:54:02 UTC (rev 10014)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-26 05:38:59 UTC (rev 10015)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 \setcounter{page}{1}
 
 Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS).
-It is written in C++ and Python with a QT based GUI. It is licensed under the
+It is written in C++ and Python with a Qt4 based GUI. It is licensed under the
 GNU General Public License (GPL) and an official project of the Open Source
 Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The current stable version 1.0 was released in
 January 2009. 
@@ -20,18 +20,20 @@
 
 \subsection{QGIS Open Source Community}
 
-The QGIS project is carried out largely by a group of dedicated developers,
-translators, documenters, release helpers, bug reporters, and promoters. It
+The QGIS project is the work of a group of dedicated developers,
+translators, documenters, release helpers, bug reporters, and promoters. Their 
+contributions are mainly on a voluntary basis, except in a few cases where 
+contributors are able to work on QGIS as part of their daily work. QGIS 
 is managed by the Project Steering Committee (PSC), a five member committee
 providing technical guidance, community liason, release management, and
 financial/marketing activities. The work of the QGIS project process is
 spread between numerous people who each have a specific area of
-resposibility. 
+resposibility, and ad hoc contributors.
 
-All these volunteers together with a large number of users make up the
-world-wide QGIS comunity, which in time has built up a comprehensive,
-valuable and useful code and documentation base free to use and improve for
-everybody.
+These volunteers together with a large number of users make up the
+world-wide QGIS comunity. Over time their efforts have resulted in a comprehensive,
+valuable and useful code and documentation base which is free for everyone 
+to use and improve on.
 
 \begin{figure}[h]
    \begin{center}
@@ -40,18 +42,19 @@
 \end{center}
 \end{figure}
 
-With community platforms such as website, wiki, and blog the QGIS project
-provides latest news, release, usage, and development information and also
-allows own contributions after subscription. A prefered first step to contact
-other users for discussions of QGIS in general, as well as specific questions
-regarding its installation and use is by joining the qgis-user mailing list,
-the QGIS Forum or the Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
+With community platforms such as our website, wiki, forums and blog the QGIS project
+provides latest news, release, usage, and development information. In most cases 
+these community web sites permit user contributions after registering. 
+The QGIS-user mailing, forum and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) provide a valuable interface 
+with other users and for discussions of QGIS in general. In the spirit of open 
+process and sharing knowledge, contacting developers directly instead of going through 
+these community based avenues of communication is frowned apon.
 
 \subsection{Functionality}
 
-QGIS offers a growing number of common GIS functionalities provided by core
+QGIS offers a growing number of common GIS functionality provided by core
 features and plugins. They are presented in a friendly graphical user
-interface, clearly seperated in menu bar, tool bar, status bar, map view,
+interface, clearly seperated into a menu bar, tool bars, status bar, map view,
 overview, and map legend (see Figure~\ref{fig:qgis10}).
 
 \begin{figure}[h]
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@
 \end{center}
 \end{figure}
 
-The menu and tool bar give access to all QGIS features and at a glance
+The menu and tool bars give access to all QGIS features and at a glance
 provide following features: 
 
 \begin{itemize}
@@ -134,7 +137,7 @@
 
 Otto Dassau <dassau at nature-consult.de>  
 \\Gary Sherman <sherman at mrcc.com>
-\\Tim Sutton <tim at linfinity.com>
+\\Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
 \\Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>
 \\Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
 



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