[Qgis-user] Congratulations to all :-)

[maning sambale]

Crap!  Now I need to overhaul all my basic gis lesson/exercises (based
on pre 1.0 version).
Yes congratulations to all!

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Bruce, Bob (CON) <Bob.Bruce at gov.mb.ca> wrote:
> I strongly agree as well. Three years ago I included QGIS in a
> presentation that I gave here in Winnipeg of FOSSG and users were
> lukewarm about it.
>
> This past Friday I made a presentation on QGIS and its Georeferencer
> plugin at the local GIS users group meeting, and although there was only
> one other QGIS user in the meeting of over 100 people, the users at the
> meeting were quite impressed with it. I expect that the user base will
> grow rapidly now that all the development has been done on it.
>
> My thanks to all of the developers who make and maintain this excellent
> software.
>
>        Bob Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Alexandris
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:06 AM
> To: qgis-user
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Congratulations to all :-)
>
> People,
>
> sometimes I look at QGIS and wonder if it's real. All of these changes
> and new stuff that were introduced the last months make me think that I
> am dreaming :-p
>
> Congratulations and thank you all. If QGIS grows at the same pace, I
> can't imagine which other platform can beat it with respect to
> user-friendliness, simplicity and interoperability.
>
> One general desire though: please try to keep the menu(s) grouped, in an
> easy and practical way. Right now, in the unstable version, loading many
> (or all possible) plugins gives a bit of a confusing impression.
>
> * The drop-down menus Raster (=gdal), Click-Fu, SDA-4PP and SelectPlus
> are right after the Help menu.
>
> * The Plugins are really too many just to keep them alphabetically
> ordered. IMHO, a thematic sorting is mandatory.
>
> And an extra-idea: since many-many times people wonder how to cite a
> tool, why not give the proper citing in an extra tab within the "About"
> dialog (or similar)?
>
> Again, thanks :-)
> Nikos
>
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