[osgeo-ph] Fwd: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.2

[RK]

Awesome! Hopefully the book isn't obsolete yet. XD


*Romer Kristi D. Aranas*
Graduate Student
Master of Science in Geomatics Engineering
Department of Geodetic Engineering
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:06 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> FYI.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de>
> Date: Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:58 PM
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.2
> To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org, qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>
>
> QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System
> that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.
>
> We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.2 'Valmiera'.  The
> emphasis on this release has been very much on polish and performance - we
> have
> added many new features, tweaks and enhancements to make the user interface
> more consistent and professional looking (and hopefully easier to use). The
> composer (used for creating print ready maps) has had a lot of work done
> to it
> to make it a more viable platform for creating great cartographic outputs.
>
> This is first release following our new four month release schedule that is
> meant to make new features and bugfixes available quicker and the
> development
> and new releases more predictable.
>
> In order to streamline the release process, we only release the source code
> today.  The binaries will be created in close succession by the individual
> package maintainers.  The source code is and the binaries soon will be
> available via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org
>
> If there is not yet a binary package for your platform on the above page,
> please check back regularly as packagers push out their work and the
> download page will reflect the new packages.
>
>
> A word of thanks to our contributors, donors and sponsors
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> QGIS is a largely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated
> team
> of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and
> gratitude
> for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release
> happen.
> Many companies and organizations contribute back their improvements to
> QGIS and
> fund development of new features when they use it as their platform, and
> we are
> grateful for this and encourage others to do the same! We would also like
> to
> thank our sponsors and donors for helping to promote our work through their
> financial contributions. Our current sponsors are (QGIS Sponsorship is
> valid
> for one year):
>
> Gold Sponsor:
> Asia Air Survey (http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/)
>
> Silver Sponsor:
> State of Vorarlberg (http://www.vorarlberg.at)
> G.A.I.A. mbH (http://www.gaia-mbh.de/)
>
> Bronze Sponsors:
> ArguSoft GmbH & Co KG (http://argusoft.de)
> Molitec (http://www.molitec.it/)
>
> A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and
> small to the project can be seen here:
>
> http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors
>
> If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit
> *http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship* . QGIS is
> Free software and you are under no obligation to do so. Sponsoring QGIS
> helps
> us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project
> infrastructure
> and fund bug fixing efforts
>
> Visual tour of the new release:
> --------------------------------------
>
> You can find a list of highlighted changes and new features listed on the
> detailed release announcement available here:
>
> *
> http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/21/
> *
>
>
> Give us your feedback:
> ------------------------------
>
> We welcome your feedback - please visit our issue tracker if you encounter
> an issue with the new release:
>
> http://hub.qgis.org/
>
> Please consult the existing issues there before filing any new ones.
>
>
> Happy QGISing!
>
> Regards,
>
> The QGIS Team!
>
>
>
> --
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> maning
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