[Qgis-psc] Purposal of Splash for QGIS - Honor Havard

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Thu Jun 17 05:34:45 PDT 2021


I feel differently, that we should not be bothering someone's wife so 
soon with things like this, and, a tribute coming later such as for the 
3.24 release, would be well accepted & special for the family (still 
today I receive such kind messages from Sol Katz's family when each new 
award announcement happens each year).   I would rather give time for 
the family to recover, than blasting public messages immediately (but 
maybe this is my personal feeling, and, goes against the current 
Twitter-post-now beliefs).

(note that I have no connection to Havard's family, I speak here in a 
general sense)

-jeff



On 2021-06-17 9:26 a.m., Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Anita,
> 
> Understandable - but on the other hand - isn't this a bit late to honor 
> Håvard through a splash-screen in February 2022? Condolences and 
> honoring people should probably happen in a "timely" manner and not 
> months later (and you already did that in the QGIS blog post - thank you!).
> 
> What if we would display one of the orienteering maps (or QGIS maps he 
> was involved with) in our website banners on the QGIS.ORG webpage 
> instead and link it to the blog post? Or any other ideas? We could also 
> honor him through a news item in the QGIS news screen where we normally 
> announce new versions and events.
> 
> Personally - while I do want to honor him and his work - I am not 
> totally sure if the splash screen many months later is the right thing 
> for this purpose?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2021-06-17 12:27, Anita Graser wrote:
> 
>> The next "open" splash screen is 3.24 since 3.20 Odense (too close) 
>> and 3.22 Bialowieza (meant to commemorate their centenary celebration) 
>> are already set.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anita
>>
>>
>> On 17.06.2021 11:52, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>> Open question: Are we all talking about the 3.22 splash screen for 
>>> Håvard? or about the 3.20 release (due tomorrow)?
>>>
>>> On 2021-06-17 10:57, DelazJ wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>     Thanks Joao for the thread.
>>>     Anita, Yes we have his wife's contact.
>>>     If there's an agreement with Andreas proposal, I can get in touch
>>>     with her.
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Harrissou
>>>
>>>     Le jeu. 17 juin 2021 à 08:10, ElPaso <elpaso at itopen.it
>>>     <mailto:elpaso at itopen.it>> a écrit :
>>>
>>>         Il 16/06/21 22:46, Anita Graser ha scritto:
>>>         >
>>>         > > Perhaps we can ask this commission if they have an
>>>         orienteering map
>>>         > he or the commission worked on that we can use on the
>>>         Splash screen?
>>>         >
>>>         > Do we have any contacts that we could follow up with
>>>         regarding this idea?
>>>         >
>>>
>>>         Hi Anita,
>>>
>>>
>>>         I think we have his wife's email.
>>>
>>>
>>>         > Regards,
>>>         >
>>>         > Anita
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         > On 11.06.2021 14:18, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>         >>
>>>         >> Hi all,
>>>         >>
>>>         >> I didn't personally know him, but it seems that Håvard was
>>>         very
>>>         >> active with orienteering maps, including being on the IOF Map
>>>         >> Commission. Perhaps we can ask this commission if they
>>>         have an
>>>         >> orienteering map he or the commission worked on that we
>>>         can use on
>>>         >> the Splash screen?
>>>         >>
>>>         >> Greetings,
>>>         >> Andreas
>>>         >>
>>>         >> On 2021-06-11 13:52, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>         >>
>>>         >>> I am very sorry to hear this sad news.  Håvard was very
>>>         active in so
>>>         >>> many FOSS4G projects (including also the MapServer
>>>         documentation).
>>>         >>>  I support your idea to honor Håvard with a splash screen
>>>         map.
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> -jeff
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> On 2021-06-11 6:38 a.m., João Gaspar wrote:
>>>         >>>> Dear Members of the Project Steering Committee,
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> I saw the last news of the blog and I deeply sad about
>>>         the loss of
>>>         >>>> Håvard Tveite.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/>
>>>
>>>         >>>>
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/>>
>>>
>>>         >>>>
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/>
>>>
>>>         >>>>
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/
>>>         <https://blog.qgis.org/2021/06/10/havard-tveite-has-passed-away/>>>
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> I would like to purpose a dedicated splash screen for a
>>>         version of
>>>         >>>> QGIS using the hometown map of Håvard Tveite (perhaps an
>>>         LTR
>>>         >>>> version) to honor their work in the QGIS project.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> This idea if all agree can be extended for others all
>>>         members that
>>>         >>>> are supporting and give their love to this project.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> Best regards,
>>>         >>>> João Gaspar
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>
>>>         >>
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