[Qgis-user] Call for release name suggestions 2015

[James Keener]

We could always use silly names.

Qgisor
Qgisisimo
Qgisinator
Qgisette
Qgisador
Qgis: a new hope
Qgis: the next generation
Qgis5
Qgis: or how I learned to stop worrying and love gis
Qgisamation
Qgisactica
Qgis: everywhere
Qgis 1138
Qgis 2001: a geospatial oddesy
Qgis who
Quails Gulls Iiwis and Sirysteses
Qgis fantastique
Qgis: what you will

(That's like 6 years of names!)

But in all seriousness, a bias in geographic locations based on where developers and users are isn't the worst bias. I also enjoy the old map imagery.

Jim


On September 1, 2015 5:02:47 PM EDT, "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>Hi Mats,
>
>On Tue, 01. Sep 2015 at 17:06:23 +0200, Mats Elfström wrote:
>> Once, Qgis versions were named after planetary moons. We probably ran
>> out of those, at least those known to the public.
>
>Nope, there are probably plenty left.  But we stopped using them
>because there
>was a trademark claim on some of the moons we used by a company that
>already
>used it for their software product.
>
>> Place names can be biased, like: now it's time for a latin american
>name and
>> so on.
>
>We already had a latin american name: Copiapo.
>
>
>> May I suggest the periodic table of elements as base for the naming
>instead.
>> By cleverly using the groups one could even indicate major/minor
>version
>> changes.
>
>Not sure if that's safer than moons.
>
>
>Jürgen
>
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