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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Lene,<br>
      <br>
      Does Your proposal mean that those universities, which start to
      use QGIS and QGIS based material for education, start to support
      QGIS development financially and with other resources like man
      power for testing, fixing etc. ?<br>
      <br>
      Cheers,<br>
      Kari<br>
      <br>
      On 07/21/2014 06:35 PM, Lene Fischer wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This is not a mail
            about bugs or issues on a special feature – just a matter of
            time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Right now I´m
            preparing a 3 week intensive GIS course at university level
            - looking forward to these annual events. But I get stressed
            when I see that there are only 94 days until next version of
            QGIS. Because in November I start over again with a 8 week
            course and in February a 3 week course, in may a 3 week
            course. All in all we have more than 140 students learning
            QGIS every year – and they are impressed of this program!!!
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I love getting new
            features in the program, but fear the work to run through
            every assignment, every video and being a bit unsure how the
            program works in the latest version on the different
            platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Small changes which I
            haven´t noticed and therefore unaware of. So a new version
            so soon gives me a lot of stress and so many hours of work –
             hours which could be used to ex. testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">When I ask users to
            download the program they take the official latest version –
            sometimes with bugs included… It gives an impression of an
            unprofessional product (not my words), it gives me- and
            others hard times to fix or explain. I´ve been talking to
            other users/administrators who has the same experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">What if we had :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">A
            long term stable version for ex. 12 months with bugfix only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            developer version for 4 months with new features and
            bugfixes => Stable version with short bugfix-period =>
            New developer……..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I do know it will
            give the developers more work – I do know it will cost more
            money – But I´m sure a lot of administrators will recommend,
             use and support if we get a more stable environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">So please – consider
            another release plan in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Kari Salovaara
Hanko, Finland

"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart."
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