<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Oct 2019, at 11:50, Saber Razmjooei <<a href="mailto:saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk" class="">saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Hi Andreas,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks for your response. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I agree, the QGIS On Android app is out-dated and needs to be removed (as discussed in the previous meetings). But the proposal goes beyond what it had been discussed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In terms of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://qgis.org/" class="">QGIS.org</a>'s endorsement as the official app on platform X, would be good to have some guidelines/checklists. As far as I know all the apps are GPL licensed and that alone would not be sufficient. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is not much external code contribution to each of those applications, outside the sponsored organisations. So, a fair way, would be to have a page on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://qgis.org/" class="">QGIS.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>website:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1- Explaining the technical capabilities of QGIS libraries (e.g. QgsQuick) and SDKs (OSGeo4A and OSGeo4iOS) to create mobile apps (for developers)</div><div class="">2- List the existing apps with a short description (for users)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That sounds like a very good approach to me too. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think Marco was also talking about having QField main repo moved to the <a href="http://QGIS.org" class="">QGIS.org</a> GitHub repo (correct Marco?). Though I don’t think this needs to be a pre-requisite to being listed on the QGIS download page.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards</div><div class="">Saber</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" target="_blank" class="">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;" class=""><p class="">Hi Saber,</p><p class="">This was indeed discussed but is pending approval by the QField contributors. Up to now it is only a suggestion.</p><p class="">It wouldn't be "the official" QGIS mobile app, but rather "the official" QGIS mobile app on Android. There could be an "official" mobile app on iOS and on Windows as well. At the same time we would like to "retire/depricate" the old "QGIS on Android" project that hadn't been worked on for a long time. We would like to encourage other projects (such as "Input" and "QGIS Roam" to do the same, if there aren't any license or technical barriers.</p><p class="">He haven't discussed your option "2" yet. It would be nice to have the same synchronisation service work for QField, QGIS Roam and Input.</p><p class="">Thanks for reaching out about this,</p><p class="">Andreas</p><p id="gmail-m_-4780004078069334054gmail-m_-5628350618431212400reply-intro" class="">On 2019-10-15 10:58, Saber Razmjooei wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0px 0.4em; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin: 0px;" class=""><div id="gmail-m_-4780004078069334054gmail-m_-5628350618431212400replybody1" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear PSC,<div class=""> </div><div class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Looking at the minutes of the last PSC meeting [1], there was some discussion about <a href="http://qgis.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">qgis.org</a> adopting QField as the official QGIS mobile app. This is very interesting / exciting and we had a couple of questions:</span></div><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">1- Would this mean the QField codebase would be formally adopted by the QGIS project with the same developer procedures / rights as the main QGIS codebase?</span></div><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The reason we ask is that we're working on a new data synchronisation service for mobile GIS (Mergin) and would be interested in how we could get QField to integrate with it. So the second question is:</span></div><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">2- Given the fact that Mergin is a freemium service (not open source) would such a pull request to integrate this service be welcome in the same way that things like Oracle / MSSQL / ArcSDE support work in QGIS desktop? </span></div><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Kind regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Saber</span></div><br class=""><div class="">-- </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Saber Razmjooei</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">www.lutraconsulting.co.uk</a></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeXinguVrNTuRucdqm86Fcunks3UHpEtRi-rO73Dc7o/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeXinguVrNTuRucdqm86Fcunks3UHpEtRi-rO73Dc7o/edit</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div style="margin: 0px; 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