[Qgis-user] Call for release name suggestions 2015

[Richard McDonnell]

+1 for Periodic Table, I know it has little to do with Geography but at 
least its unbiased!
Regards,

Richard.



On 01/09/2015 16:06, Mats Elfström wrote:
> Once, Qgis versions were named after planetary moons. We probably ran
> out of those, at least those known to the public. However, they had
> the advantage of being unbiased, in terms of earth nations, language
> or ethnicity. Place names can be biased, like: now it's time for a
> latin american name and so on.
> 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.
>
> Hälsning / Regards
> Mats.E
>
> Skickat från min / Sent from my iPhone, Ursäkta att jag är kortfattad
> / Excuse my brevity.
>
>> 1 sep 2015 kl. 14:12 skrev Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> just to small correction. There was no hackfest in Moscow, only a
>> small user meeting.
>>
>> 2015-08-31 10:22 GMT+03:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:
>>> Hi Anita,
>>>
>>> Well - we are not running out to soon of dev-meeting locations that haven't
>>> been used as release names yet: Essen, Hannover, Lyon, Nødebo, Zurich, Gran
>>> Canaria. Then there are the hackfests that are not in Middle Europe, such as
>>> Tokyo, Moscow.
>>>
>>> Also, there are 2 additional dev meetings each year.
>>>
>>> So I wouldn't be worried about names yet ;-) Enough names for years to come.
>>>
>>> Personally I would propose Essen for either the next release or the next LT
>>> release. We could ask the German QGIS user group to come up with a suitable
>>> map for Essen or a map of the Linux hotel.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30.08.2015 19:29, Anita Graser wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear QGIS community,
>>>
>>> As you might know, given our new release cycle with three releases a year,
>>> we are sooner or later going to run out of release names based on developer
>>> meeting locations. This is why I would like to remind you to suggest release
>>> names.
>>>
>>> If you have been hosting QGIS user meetings or if you have founded a user
>>> group, why not suggest the meeting/foundling location?
>>>
>>> Here's a short description of what is needed to make a suggestion:
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> CALL for QGIS RELEASE NAME SUGGESTIONS
>>>
>>> The following rules apply:
>>> - The suggestion should be the name of a place.
>>> - The suggestion must not be the name of a software product. (Please try to
>>> do some Google searches before submitting the suggestion.)
>>> - Each suggestion must come with a suitable map image for splash design.
>>> (Make sure that we have the rights to use the image. Since the splash is
>>> also printed in our user guide, a minimum resolution of 3000x2000 px is
>>> necessary.)
>>> - Locations of developer meetings have priority.
>>>
>>> Submission format: Send an email with a short description of your suggestion
>>> and a link to a ZIP file containing the map image(s) to anitagraser at gmx.at
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Anita
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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