[Qgis-psc] QGIS Hackfest press release

[Pablo Fernández Moniz]

Hi,

2015-10-31 22:37 GMT+00:00 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>:

> Hi Pablo
>
> On 29 Oct 2015, at 19:03, Pablo Fernández Moniz <
> pablofernandezmoniz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>  We are preparing a press release for local press and University community
> talking about the hackfest and to try to divulge QGIS.
>
>  Could you please provide me a small description about the project, people
> involved and their careers, and some projects/ companies which uses QGIS.
>
>
>
> How about this:
>
> The QGIS project (http://qgis.org) is an open source project devoted to
> the development of a best-in-class Geographical Information System (GIS).
> In almost every pursuit and field, there is a spatial element. For example
> town engineers need to know accurately where the infrastructure they manage
> is, humanitarian aid workers need to understand where safe places to house
> refugees are, land managers need to know where land parcels are so they can
> assure citizens of their land tenure and so on. Numerous proprietary
> software solutions exist that can cater to these needs but they are
> expensive to purchase and maintain and do not offer a sustainable solution
> – particularly in developing nations and cash strapped organisations where
> the licensing costs of proprietary GIS can make the difference between
> being able to embark on a separate project or fail. The recent global
> crisis has further highlighted this issue where even in more wealthy and
> developed nations austerity measures have forced organisations to seek out
> more economic solutions for their GIS needs. There is more than just an
> economic imperative driving the adoption of open source GIS solutions such
> as QGIS.  Security concerns, data privacy concerns, open standards
> adoption, long term access to software and software source codes, the
> ability to easily improve the software and incorporate new functionality
> and a myriad of similar concerns have been causing organisations to
> re-evaluate their dependence on commercial proprietary GIS solutions.
>
> Driven by these factors and because we offer a compelling alternative,
> QGIS has garnered a substantial user base (our estimate is between 250,000
> and 500,000 users).  Our software encompasses desktop, server-side and web
> client applications along with foundational libraries for software
> developers. Our software is mature (the first release was made in 2002) and
> supported by a very active developer, documentation and user community, a
> large proportion of whom participate in the project on a volunteer basis. A
> subset of our developer community work for consulting firms where they
> provide QGIS related services such as development of new features, fixing
> of bugs, writing plugins and so on. Within the open source model, these
> improvements are generally (subject to review from the QGIS developer
> community) contributed back to the upstream QGIS project.
>
> QGIS is used by many companies and organisations around the world
> including a the WorldBank / GFDRR, numerous local and regional governments
> in Germany, Switzerland and many other countries around the world. It is
> also used by data journalists (e.g. from the LA Times), NGO’s, and people
> from nearly every sector of civil society.
>
> QGIS is built by a community of contributors from around the world. Our
> community members are not only software programmers, but also documentation
> writers, translators (QGIS is available in over 20 languages), testers and
> users who provide support to other users.
>
>
Thank you very much!

Regards



>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
 KR!
>
> --
>
> Pablo Fernández Moniz
>
>
> —
>
>
>
>
> Tim Sutton
>
> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:
>
> * Desktop GIS programming services
> * Geospatial web development
> * GIS Training
> * Consulting Services
>
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>
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>
>


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