[Qgis-developer] Splash screen for 2.0

[Denis Rouzaud]

+1 for Dufour!!!

Easily pronounced, and very representative!

A very good idea!

That would be a nice map on the summit:
http://s.geo.admin.ch/d632bf34e

Cheers,

Denis

On 07/12/2013 03:04 PM, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
>
> hi I remember a discussion we had with tim last month in South Africa. 
> I Suggested that. he thought was too hard in english.
> I then suggested "Dufour".  beside being a very influencial swiss 
> cartographer [1] it is also the highest mountain in switzerland.
>
> i think it would be very representative for the whole swiss community.
>
> ciao
>
> [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dufour_Map
>
> Marco Bernasocchi (mobile)
> http://opengis.ch
>
> >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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