[Qgis-user] Hello

[Werner Macho]

Hello and welcome on board ;)

sounds interesting what you do .. hope you have fun with qgis.
And don't forget the bugreports ;)

regards
Werner

Am 12.01.2010 19:07, schrieb Pierre Chevalier Géologue:
> Hello to you all, all my wishes for a happy *free* new year 2010!
>
> I just arrived here, so, according to some old traditions, let me 
> shortly introduce myself.
>
> I'm French, GNU/Linux user since a few years (I think the first time I 
> ran a GNU/Linux was in 1998), GIS user since about 1997.  I used, in 
> my past life, to work most of the time with mapinfo and arcview 3.x, 
> for geological mapping purposes, since I am a geologist.  I also did 
> quite a bit of mapping and GIS processes besides geology, and some 
> treatments with grass, for erosion studies.
> Nowadays, I run my own company, all the computers around me run 
> happily on Debian, one file server runs on DreeBSD, and an eeepc on 
> Xandros.  Only my wife has a proprietary box: a Mac.  By the way, my 
> kids' computer runs on Mandriva Linux.
>
> I used to be a developer, a long time ago, I developed some specific 
> geological applications with... visual basic. Ooops, sorry. Never 
> again. Now, I occasionally script from time to time in python, I would 
> like to be able to develop again seriously, but not enough time, I 
> wish days were about 40h long...
>
> I have been using qGIS happily for some years, and I'm very impressed 
> by the speed of its progress: all my congratulations to the 
> developers' team!
> The way I use it is pretty basic: most of the time, I go to the field, 
> gather information on notebook and GPS, dump my GPS with gpsbabel, map 
> the .gpx with qGIS, along with data coming from various sources, 
> shapefiles, rasters, mapinfo files, postgis tables, etc.  I produce 
> maps, put them in my reports, and that's about it.
>
> A+
> Pierre
>