Dear all, I think there are more reasons for this "development"; and gvSIGce might not be the most important. I don't want to blame anyone, but it surely was harmful to the small gvSIG community in Germany. I did not hear so much about the fork since then, but it surely has some influence. I think there was no presentation about (original) gvSIG at the last FOSSGIS conference and this is very bad. The development of QGIS is just amazing (you might throw a glance on ohloh.net). Congratulations to them.
Things have changed very much in the last years. I think it was in 2007 when we decided to switch to gvSIG, as we did not see that much development on QGIS, but lots of activity (and functionality) at the gvSIG project. We tried to push this project a bit with our modest resources, organized the first German gvSIG user meeting, translated documentation into German etc. But still, we are few. QGIS seems to have a much more active community - at least in Europe. Adding new functionality and improving documentation seems to be easier there - and the usage of the English language is surely one key factor. Since the QGIS project is a community driven project, the people in the QGIS community seem to be more contributors (instead of consumers). I am not aware of what is done in the spanish-speaking community - due to the language barrier ;(… However, I fear that Simon's view of the "more vibrant cooperative ecosystem" is true. And sextante - this is really confusing. There was no comment about that "development" on the list. I heard about that only by accident. Seems that most development of sextante is now done for QGIS. Really sad (if it's true). Best, Wolfgang -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/The-non-spanish-speaking-gvSIG-community-do-we-have-be-to-worried-tp5053737p5053902.html Sent from the gvSIG users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gvsig_internacional mailing list Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es To see the archives, edit your preferences or unsubscribe from this mailing list, please access this url: http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional