[Qgis-developer] Impressions from the FOSS4G2006 conference in Lausanne

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Marco

Thanks for the feedback - and for flying the flag for QGIS! If you
email me (or put on a ftp site somewhere) your materials I can put
them online. Alternatively you could add them to the new
http://blog.qgis.org site (just ask Gary to make you an account). The
blog site supports uploading pictures etc.

Regards

Tim

On 9/17/06, humarco <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Dear qgis developers,
>
> From 12th - 15th September, there has been the FOSS4G conference (see
> http://www.foss4g2006.org). For those of us who couldn't go there, I'd
> like to write down some of my impressions.
>
> It was a very good conference with lots of interesting workshops and talks.
> The location at the university of Lausanne was close to the lake and with a
> beautifull view to the mountains. There have been a lot of interesting people
> to talk with from the mapserver, GRASS, PostGIS, JAVA-GIS and last but not
> least QGIS communities. Speaking to those people, I was pleased to see how
> widely known, accepted and even used QGIS is in the whole open source GIS
> community. I also heared the wish of many users that 0.8 release happens in
> not too far future.
>
> From QGIS side, there where two workshops: a 'QGIS beginers workshop' where
> the main program features have been showed and a 'QGIS plugin writer
> workshop' where a plugin has been written in four small steps. Tim, is there
> a place on the website where I may place the material of this workshop
> (slides, code for the four steps)? The plugin itself might even be usefull,
> it takes the features of the current vectorlayer and converts them into a
> delimited text file such that every vertex becomes a point feature.
>
> It was further impressive for me to visit the presentation about the 'udig'
> project and to see that "competitors do not sleep" (like we use to say in
> german). They seem to have most features that we have in QGIS and
> additionally a very good support for OGC services. It seemed that they also
> have a lot of human ressources for future development.
>
> There was also information about the OSGeo foundation, what it does and how a
> project may become a member. This so-called 'incubation process' is mainly a
> project review. When reading the criterias for projects
> (https://incubator.osgeo.org/), I had the impression, that the QGIS project
> would fullfill most or even all of them.
>
> Ok, that was it from my side. Did anyone of the QGIS folks make digital
> pictures of the conference? It would be great to see them.
>
> Mateusz: thank you very much for the nice QGIS t-shirt!
>
> Greetings,
> Marco
>
>
>
>
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