[Qgis-user] Hello from new user in Syria

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Gerhard

QGIS has no political agenda (other than the promotion of Free and
Open Source Software) and we welcome you to use it in any country (or
even extraterrestrially if you like :-). As far as I know it is not
subject to any export restrictions - a good deal of development has
taken place outside of the U.S.A. anyway. I'm not familiar with U.S.
law in these matters and if it can or why it should affect us. You
didn't seem to have any specific question, but if you do feel free to
direct them to this list.

PS it would be great to get some folks there to translate QGIS to
arabic (see [1] and [2])! Someone started once but I guess the work
has stalled at 2%.

[1]  http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/TranslatorsCorner
[2] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DocumentationWritersCorner

Regards

Tim

2008/8/28 Dr. Gerhard Rappold <gerhard.bgr at gmail.com>:
> Hello qgis users,
>
> I hook on this list after using qgis for a while. Now I am getting more
> seriously.
>
> We want to introduce qGIS as one optional GIS program in the Ministry of
> Irrigation in Syria. Syria lacks of the US- Embargo and commercial US
> software can only used with high restrictions. (Currently ArcGIS 9.x and
>  ArcView 3.x can not be used in Syria, about ArcGIS 8.x the situation is not
> completely clear).
> Furthermore as a developing project we have to consider that the partners
> budget for software is rather small and the willingness to pay is close to
> zero. (you get every software for less than a Euro as a crack)
> qGIS is one of our choices.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gerhard
>
>
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