Helmut do you have any contact details for the OSGeo4W project? Please ask the OSGeo4W team to contact the incubation committee <https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/> (for edit access to create a project page).
-- Jody Garnett On 20 January 2018 at 12:45, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de> wrote: > Hi community, > > as we've seen in the Google Code‑in contest and students' feedback, MS > windows is still an > important operating system within the user base of the OSGeo stack. > > Beside the windows standalone installers of e.g. QGIS or winGRASS (both > are based upon OSGeo4W), > the OSGeo4W framework itself is a very important platform to deliver the > OSGeo stack to the users > of this operating system. > > As an example, when I'm helping winGRASS users on the GRASS user ML, I'm > often refering to use OSGeo4W-winGRASS > in order to check if the issue/problem is also there. > > Furthermore, OSGeo4W is also an important testing platform as it's > possible to use/test the latest greatest dailys of > e.g. QGIS3 or GRASS7.4svn on the windows operating system. > > Another example, University of Vienna deploys OSGeo4W to all its public > students PCs. > > Searching [1] and screening the new website, there seems to be no > information about/no link to OSGeo4W [2]. > > Is this intentional? Just overseen? > > OSGeo will loose new and interested users of the OSGeo software stack when > no one can find the nice framework for the still > most used operating system. > > Kind regards > Helmut > > OSGeo charter member > > [1] https://www.osgeo.org/search/OSGeo4W > [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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