<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 30 Jun 2015, at 09:44, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" class="">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I would like to propose that PSC initiates a small project for each future QGIS release, in addition to our bug fixing initiative.<br class=""><br class="">I would propose projects that are important to QGIS or our infrastructure, but are not easy to "sell" for organizations who typically pay for feature development.<br class=""><br class="">Here is a list of suggestions:<br class=""><br class="">* Introduce Geopackage support throughout QGIS<br class="">* finish multithreading work - I believe there is still work to be done on rasters and/or WFS?<br class="">* Introduce shared style and SVG symbols repository<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that Akbar (in CC) has started work on this. It would be great if we have funds to pay him something to support his work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">* upgrade WFS to properly handle versions 1.3 and 1.1<br class="">* Partially support Nyalls rewrite of print composer and reporting framework<br class=""><br class="">Probably other PSC members would have additional ideas.<br class=""><br class="">I would propose to pay one dev plus/minus one week to work on such a project for now. Later we can re-discuss it and align it with our funding possibilities.<br class=""><br class="">Do you agree that it would make sense to support such a project for each release?<br class=""><br class="">If yes - who decides? PSC or should we ask our users through voting? Who would propose projects?<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your thoughts?<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes I like the idea of supporting needed features and functionality - especially where they add polish to QGIS. I would also add to the list getting a graphic designer to harmonise all the resources in QGIS.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As to the process, Id suggest to keep it as low overhead as possible - QGIS community polls tend to be noisy and long winded affairs (remember the logo contest?) so I would prefer that we restrict voting to core dev or PSC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Andreas<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span>—</span><br class=""><span><br class=""></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img height="66" width="160" apple-inline="yes" id="9FE783EF-370D-41E0-BC48-08E500494B18" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:62C890D4-3964-4609-BDE6-7536D5FBDD70" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class="">Tim Sutton</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Visit <a href="http://kartoza.com" class="">http://kartoza.com</a> to find out about open source:</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* Desktop GIS programming services</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* Geospatial web development</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* GIS Training</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* Consulting Services</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net" class="">freenode.net</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial</div></div></div></div>
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