[Qgis-community-team] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Request Articles for 2012 Annual Report

[Anita Graser]

Here is what I have so far. Please let me know if I forgot something important:


Key Accomplishments (Include Information on Software Releases Here)
- Release of QGIS 1.8.0 "Lisboa" June 21st, 2012
- 3 projects in Google Summer of Code: Symbology Usability Improvments
for QGIS, Orfeo Toolbox backend for the Sextante framework in QGIS,
QGIS for Mobile Devices
- Test framework
- Integration of Sextante
- First gold sponsor: Asia Air Survey

Events
Developer Meetings
The QGIS project aims to hold regular developer meetings, aka
'hackfests' and 'bughuntings'. The purpose of these meetings is to get
together people committed to improving the Quantum GIS project
including developers, documenters, bug reporters as well as users.
- Essen 10/2012 (http://www.qgis.org/en/developer-meetings/essen-102012.html)
- Lyon 04/2012
User Meetings
- Bern 06/2012 (http://www.qgis.org/en/user-meetings/bern2012.html)
- Kassel 09/2012 (http://www.qgis.org/en/user-meetings/kassel-092012.html)
- Lisboa 10/2012 (http://www.qgis.org/en/user-meetings/lisboa102012.html)

Areas for Improvement
- User interface consolidation and improvements
- API cleanup for 2.0 release

Opportunities to Help
The Quantum GIS project welcomes developers, UI designers, software
testers, users who provide help, support, translations, etc. as well
as everyone else who wants to participate. Join the mailing lists or
visit our events.

Outlook for Next Year
- Release of 2.0
- Participation in Google Summer of Code
- Developer and user meetings



On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If nobody minds, I'll be preparing the QGIS report soon. If you have
>> specific points you want to be included, please let me know.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
>>
>
> Thanks for taking care of this Anita! Could you add a copy to our governance
> docs[1]? It would be nice to add back copies there too.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/tree/master/source/qgis_governance
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:03:28 -0800
>> From: Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
>> To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,        OSGeo Journal
>>         <newsletter at lists.osgeo.org>
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>> I'm trying to get the OSGeo Journal on a more regular publication
>> schedule. My goal is to have the annual report published every March.
>> We are wrapping up the 2011 Annual Report this week, it should be
>> published in a couple of days.
>>
>> I haven't got any peer review submittals for Volume 12 just yet, so I
>> wanted to get a jump on the Annual Report for 2012. If you know your
>> chapter will be quiet over the year end, please submit a preliminary
>> report item as soon as you can. This will allow us to get started.
>> I'll have some time off over the holidays here in the US, so the more
>> I can get now, the better!
>>
>> As a reminder, there are chapter and software project report templates
>> here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report:_Chapter_Report_Item_Template
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_Report:_Software_Project_Report_Item_Template
>>
>> I also have a new guide for putting together chapter reports:
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/A_Short_Guide_for_Writing_OSGeo_Local_Chapter_Annual_Report_Items
>>
>> Thanks for all of the help and your continued support for the OSGeo
>> Journal.
>>
>> You can submit your reports to me via sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com or
>> send them to the Journal mailing list.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Landon
>>
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