[Qgis-psc] Centenery celebration of Białowieża National Park (Poland) and QGIS.

Mon Apr 19 00:59:43 PDT 2021

Many thanks Anita, Tim and all PSC mailing list members!
Of course, I will prepare map for the splashscreen.

Take care!

śr., 14 kwi 2021 o 13:45 Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> napisał(a):

> For 3.20, we recently settled on the release name "Odense", proposed by
> the Danish user group. Since we are running out of meeting location names,
> we decided that our fallback naming scheme will be to ask our user groups
> (in the order of their founding).
>
> Since you had a mini hackfest in Białowieża in 2015, I think it would
> qualify as a release name for 3.22 which will be released in Oct 2021.
>
> One additional practical requirement for release naming is that we need
> open (usually historic) map material for the splash screen and other
> release visuals.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anita
>
>
> On 14.04.2021 11:47, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> Any more thoughts on this PSC? Anita I guess it goes back to you as
> 'release name manager'?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 1:31 PM Michał Drożdż <michal.drozdz at gis-support.pl>
> wrote:
>
>> We all remember! October or November 2010. Long time ago!
>> Splash screen attached. I have just realized there is my wife in the
>> middle of Q. We were attending as a GIS students,
>>
>> You are correct Tim. Our application for holding a User Conference was
>> sent (just after the idea came up at the end of 2019 or early 2020. I
>> wanted to talk about details in Den Bosch), but then COVID changed almost
>> everything. Plan of celebration made in 2019 is of course ruined, but we
>> try to do what is possible. So that is why I encourage you to take it under
>> consideration. If not that centenary is only once every 100 years, we would
>> have waited to the proper moment.
>>
>>
>>
>> pt., 9 kwi 2021 o 09:11 Michał Drożdż <michal.drozdz at gis-support.pl>
>> napisał(a):
>>
>>> Hi Tim!
>>>
>>>
>>> czw., 8 kwi 2021 o 23:59 Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> napisał(a):
>>>
>>>> And of course there was QGIS 1.7 Wroclaw (randome hungarian PDF for it
>>>> here: https://qgis.org/downloads/brochure/qgis17_brochure_en.pdf). But
>>>> do I understand the original question correctly as asking to use the name
>>>> even if we cannot hold an in-person meeting there this year?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 12:46 PM Saber Razmjooei <
>>>> saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Michal,
>>>>>
>>>>> We had a mini hackfest there in 2015 (Borys, myself, Martin and Peter
>>>>> Wells) just before the first Nødebo HF, so I guess it will still count!
>>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/Nrh22rukUcR37wiK8
>>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/A5zzP9X9Jg8QbkXC7
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Saber
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 11:44, Michał Drożdż <
>>>>> michal.drozdz at gis-support.pl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for answers and general "+1" reaction! :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Giovanni - i am afraid that it may end with QGIS 3.X Żubrówka :)
>>>>>> @Andreas - we were talking about international user conference with
>>>>>> contributor meetings. There is a space for that (sleeping, conferrence,
>>>>>> groupwork). We are aware how big event it is and how much effort has to be
>>>>>> done. Main (and only) problem is transportation. Białowieża is remote place
>>>>>> (closest airport is Warsaw) with poor public transport.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> czw., 8 kwi 2021 o 12:14 Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org>
>>>>>> napisał(a):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Michał,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sounds like an interesting idea - and would be in the good tradition
>>>>>>> of "complicated" names and forestry schools (Nødebo) ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When you talk about "QGIS user conference" - would this be a local
>>>>>>> Polish user conference or an international user conference with a
>>>>>>> contributor meeting attached?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anita is the ultimate person to convince though ;-) and I know that
>>>>>>> a Danish release name is in the pipeline this year as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 11:37, Michał Drożdż <
>>>>>>> michal.drozdz at gis-support.pl> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi All!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I got a very unique request for help from my colleague from polish
>>>>>>>> Forest Research Institute. It is a short story behind that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is a small superb village in eastern Poland: Białowieża
>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa It is
>>>>>>>> headquarter of Białowskeski National Park (considered as one of the oldest
>>>>>>>> NP in the world). Due to its location and outstanding nature, Białowieża is
>>>>>>>> home for several science institutions (e.g. Mammal Research Institute
>>>>>>>> https://ibs.bialowieza.pl/en/). As for village for 2000
>>>>>>>> inhabitants, aumout of scientists among them is higher than average :) They
>>>>>>>> do a lot of interesting things, like Open Forest Data:
>>>>>>>> https://openforestdata.pl/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Scientific life, love of nature and living in remote place is not
>>>>>>>> the only thing that connects them. They all use QGIS in their daily work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Białowieża National Park celebrates its centenary this year. There
>>>>>>>> was a plan to organize QGIS User Conference (I filled the form at the the
>>>>>>>> end of 2019) as one of the celebration events but then a virus came...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The idea is still alive and there is a strong willingness to
>>>>>>>> organize User Conference in Białowieża when it will be possible, but for
>>>>>>>> now question is difference: Is there any way to release QGIS named
>>>>>>>> after Białowieża Forest this year to "virtually promote" the heritage of
>>>>>>>> ancient Puszcza Białowieska:
>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I know that QGIS has its "naming schema" based on cities where QGIS
>>>>>>>> meetings were organized. Maybe no possibility of an on-place meeting is a
>>>>>>>> trigger for change for important places for natural heritage and climate
>>>>>>>> changes?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What do you think about that?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Michał Drożdż*
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>
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>>
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