[Qgis-psc] Purposal of Splash for QGIS - Honor Havard
Nathan Woodrow
madmanwoo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 05:40:32 PDT 2021
I agree with Jeff on this. It's not too late to wait for a while before
doing something like this even a few years.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:34 PM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:
> 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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