[Qgis-developer] Splash screen for 2.0

[Marco Hugentobler]

 >To avoid trademark etc issues I would prefer we use a little know 
place - also one that non german speakers have a vague hope of being 
able to pronounce.

What about 'Hönggerberg' (the place where the developer meeting took 
place) ?

Regards,
Marco

On 12.07.2013 14:42, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi All
>
> If you are a daily blocker list [1] watcher you will have noticed that 
> Juergen Fischer (aka our resident coding machine) has been whittling 
> the list down  - 31 issues left as I write this.
>
> Juergen has been funded for two weeks - one week each from the Swiss 
> QGIS Users Group and QGIS.org's fund). If you have been contemplating 
> sponsoring QGIS, there is never a better time to do it as we use the 
> money to fund activities such as these which are a huge step in 
> helping us to produce good quality releases.
>
> Based on his progress I expect we should be ready to release before 
> FOSS4G2013 (yay!). We need to decide on two things:
>
> * A name for the release
> * A map for the splash screen
>
> These should be in a similar vein to the splash and name for QGIS 1.8 
> 'Lisboa'. Since the next Hackfest after Lisbon was Zurich I am 
> proposing that we name this release after an interesting place in 
> Zurich. To avoid trademark etc issues I would prefer we use a little 
> know place - also one that non german speakers have a vague hope of 
> being able to pronounce. As such could I ask our hosts from Zurich to 
> proffer a suitable name and a nice old map that we can use for the 
> splash screen?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> [1] http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues?query_id=23
>
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
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