<div dir="ltr">Hi Joseph,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With regards to the scheduling of releases, you might want to review:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">* QGIS Road Map - <a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html#release-schedule">http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html#release-schedule</a><br><br>* QEP #4: Long Term Releases- <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/6">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/6</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For government agency roll-outs, you might consider using the proposed (though not yet adopted) upcoming LTR version approach, which will be supported with bug fixes for a period of one year from release.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Doing large roll-outs to many computers will be contingent upon many variables, e.g. network setup, whether internet access is available, whether mixed platforms are to be supported, etc.<br><br>If you are working solely with Windows, you might want to consider using the OSGeo4W installer [0] and use a pre-downloaded cache local to your network (so every computer does not need to download components via the internet). Also check out its command line interface [1].<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If administering a Mac environment, you can use Apple Remote Desktop admin tool [2], and the Mac installers from Kyngchaos.com [3].<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On Linux there are many tools for doing remote package installation, but an interesting alternative is now available with docker (which, when coupled with VirtualBox, works on other platforms, too) [4]. See "Running QGIS desktop in a docker container" post by Tim Sutton [5] for more information.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm sure there are more scenarios not covered here, and other IT and sys admins may jump in with interesting solutions.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Indeed there needs to be an official guide for common scenarios (unless I am just missing an existing one).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>[0] <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki</a><br>[1] <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CommandLine">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CommandLine</a><br>[2] <a href="https://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/">https://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis">http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis</a><br>[4] <a href="https://www.docker.com/">https://www.docker.com/</a><br>[5] <a href="http://kartoza.com/qgis-desktop-in-docker/">http://kartoza.com/qgis-desktop-in-docker/</a><br><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Regards,<br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Larry Shaffer<br>Dakota Cartography<br>Black Hills, South Dakota</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Joseph Sloop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbsloop@uncg.edu" target="_blank">jbsloop@uncg.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hello All!</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Outside of school I work in local government and I am pushing our local government to start using more QGIS. They are very open to the idea, therefore, I was tasked with creating a 'QGIS Policies and Roll Out Procedures' manual for our local government. This document would include items such as: When to update to next version, how to roll out QGIS to multiple users and departments, etc. I was wondering if anyone else has had to write a similar manual and would be willing to share? Thank you all in advance!</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Joseph </div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>
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