<html><head></head><body>We could always use silly names.<br>
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Qgisor<br>
Qgisisimo<br>
Qgisinator<br>
Qgisette<br>
Qgisador<br>
Qgis: a new hope<br>
Qgis: the next generation<br>
Qgis5<br>
Qgis: or how I learned to stop worrying and love gis<br>
Qgisamation<br>
Qgisactica<br>
Qgis: everywhere<br>
Qgis 1138<br>
Qgis 2001: a geospatial oddesy<br>
Qgis who<br>
Quails Gulls Iiwis and Sirysteses<br>
Qgis fantastique<br>
Qgis: what you will<br>
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(That's like 6 years of names!)<br>
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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.<br>
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Jim<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 1, 2015 5:02:47 PM EDT, "Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef@norbit.de> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi Mats,<br /><br />On Tue, 01. Sep 2015 at 17:06:23 +0200, Mats Elfström wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Once, Qgis versions were named after planetary moons. We probably ran<br /> out of those, at least those known to the public.<br /></blockquote><br />Nope, there are probably plenty left. But we stopped using them because there<br />was a trademark claim on some of the moons we used by a company that already<br />used it for their software product.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Place names can be biased, like: now it's time for a latin american name and<br /> so on.<br /></blockquote><br />We already had a latin american name: Copiapo.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left:
1ex;"> May I suggest the periodic table of elements as base for the naming instead.<br /> By cleverly using the groups one could even indicate major/minor version<br /> changes.<br /></blockquote><br />Not sure if that's safer than moons.<br /><br /><br />Jürgen<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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