[Qgis-release-team] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.0 'Kore'
Agustin Lobo
aloboaleu at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 04:43:17 EST 2009
Tim
Do I translate to Spanish and distribute to the Spanish lists or
are we doing a different general announcement?
Agus
Tim Sutton wrote:
> Dear QGIS Users, Developers and FOSSGIS devotees
>
> We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the
> shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at
> http://qgis.org. See the note below from our project chair:
>
> -----------------
>
> This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work
> by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and
> graphics designers.
>
> QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of
> the same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data
> that ran on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true
> cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix,
> Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. It supports editing and map
> composition as well as integration with GRASS to provide powerful GIS
> capability. QGIS has been translated into many languages by a dedicated
> internationalization team.
>
> At 1.0 we provide a stable API from which you can develop custom
> solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there are a number
> of exciting developments underway in both the core application and
> plugins. Although it took nearly 7 years to get to version 1.0, I think
> you'll find that this version is the best yet. Thanks for using
> QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success.
>
>
> -- Gary Sherman, Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee
> -----------------
>
> For more detailed release information, visit:
>
> http://blog.qgis.org/node/123
>
> For Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows downloads, visit:
>
> http://download.qgis.org *
>
> * Source code and User's Guide are also available from this site.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
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Dr. Agustin Lobo
Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC)
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