[Qgis-user] QGIS presence at the AGIT conference in Salzburg

[Werner Macho]

Hi!

Well, my short impressions from agit:

A lot of people are already looking for Open Source Solutions since they 
seem to have realized that even a Company can die. So the idea behind 
Open Source (having the source available) can sometimes be more reliable 
than closed source and having to switch to a completely different software.
People were very enthusiastic about seeing SEXTANTE in QGIS. I mentioned 
"experimental" a lot of times during my session and also wrote it in red 
letters. I hope that people understand that it is a very young project 
and needs to settle down and become stable before you can  rely on it 
(although it's already very stable for a lot of functions).
Regarding the Icon theme I support Anita - we should definitely switch 
to the gis theme. Probably we will get a lot of complaints in the 
beginning (and have to rework a lot of documentation - which is in 
progress right now anyway) but all in all (especially when you see and 
use the wxwindows GRASS Interface) it becomes clearly the better approach.
The overall impression to me is that People take at least a look at Open 
Source although they still do not "trust" the model behind it. But it 
seems that the situation gets better more and more.
As a Conclusion I can say that the booth near the OSM Project was nearly 
perfect as it made a "symbioses". People were sent to QGIS from them 
asking how they can "use" the data from Openstreetmap while "we" sent 
them to OSM when they were asking for free data near their home.

kind regards
Werner