Thanks Bo for a very clear and to me very accurate picture of a 'typical' enterprise QGIS deployment.<br><br>H.<div class="quote" style="line-height: 1.5"><br><br>-------- Ursprungligt meddelande --------<br>Ämne: Re: [Qgis-user] User question of the month<br>Från: Bo Victor Thomsen <bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com><br>Till: anitagraser@gmx.at<br>Kopia: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><br><br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hi Anita -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thanks for the effort in
trying to establish user and upgrading patterns for QGIS :-)</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I think however, that the
answers ar skewed, because the "enterprise" segment of users  probably doesn't
even know about this mailing list or "Planet QGIS", so the answers
mostly represent "power" users.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">My own experience with
enterprise rollouts of QGIS - and I have made a couple of these - tells me that
your average IT-department prefer a yearly rollout, might accept a major
upgrade every 6 months and will absolutely *refuse* anything on a timescale
lesser than 4 months. YMMV </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Enterprise users are roughly
split in two groups. 25% are curious and embraces new versions. The other 75 %
doesn't give a flying fig about new versions and functions as long the current
version are stable and have a tool-set that covers the conceived needs for the
individual user. Again, YMMV</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Just my 2 cents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4">Kind regards</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4">Bo Victor Thomsen</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">























</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Den man. 3. dec. 2018 kl. 22.24 skrev Anita Graser <<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>>:</span></p></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Dear users,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">The answers to the user question of November have now been published: <a href="http://blog.qgis.org/2018/12/03/user-question-of-the-month-dec-18-answers-from-nov/" target="_blank">http://blog.qgis.org/2018/12/03/user-question-of-the-month-dec-18-answers-from-nov/</a></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div>We also have a new question for December: what you think <a href="http://QGIS.ORG" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> should focus on in 2019? <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/2xOP1rSz8AaDCCi02" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/2xOP1rSz8AaDCCi02</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Anita</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 10:23 PM Anita Graser <<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<br></div><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 dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Dear users, </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">QGIS 2.18 is the third LTR since we started this effort back in 2015 and next year will see the first LTR of QGIS 3. On this occasion, we want to learn more about our users and which versions of QGIS they use. Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of the month<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/m27b3W477fFNYtxg1" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/m27b3W477fFNYtxg1</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Regards,</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anita</span></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
Qgis-user mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>
Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><br></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div>