Thanks Jurgen. On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 at 22:55 Jürgen E. <j...@norbit.de> wrote:
> QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System > that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. > > We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.8 'Wien'. > Wien is German for 'Vienna' - host city to our developer meet up in > November > 2009 and again in March 2014. > > > Long Term Release > > This is a special release since it is designated an 'LTR' (Long Term > Release). > LTR releases will be supported with backported bug fixes for one year, and > will > be in permanent feature freeze (i.e. no new features will be added, only > bug > fixes and trivial updates). > > The purpose of LTR releases is to provide a stable and less frequently > changing > platform for enterprises and organisations that do not want to deal with > updating user skills, training materials etc. more than once per year. The > success of the LTR is very much down to you, our beloved users - we need > your > support to help funding bug fixes and making sure in your support contracts > with support providers specify that any bug fixes done on your behalf are > applied to the LTR branch as well as our normal development branch. > > If an LTR is important to you, please consider also directly supporting the > QGIS project, or encourage your commercial provider to use LTR as a basis > for > your enterprise solution so that everyone may benefit from a stable > platform > that is being continuously improved and refined. Note that for users and > organisations that like to live on the frontier, our regular four monthly > releases will continue unabated. > > > New Features > > QGIS 2.8 is also a special release because it includes so many great new > features, tweaks and enhancements to make the most popular Free desktop GIS > even more feature filled and useful. Visit the visual changelog that > highlights some of the new additions > (http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog28/index.html). > > Whenever new features are added to software they introduce the possibility > of > new bugs - if you encounter any problems with this release, please file a > ticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker (http://hub.qgis.org/). Please consult the > existing and closed issues there before filing any new ones. > > The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are already > available via the large download link on our home page (http://qgis.org/). > More packages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their > work. > Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet. > > > Thanks > > We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the > many > folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do > so). > > From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to > donate > time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please > wander along to http://qgis.org and lend a hand! > > Finally we would like to thank our official sponsors for the invaluable > financial support they provide to this project: > > Gold Sponsor: > Asia Air Survey, Japan (http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/) > > Silver Sponsors: > Sourcepole AG, Switzerland (http://www.sourcepole.com/) > State of Vorarlberg, Austria (http://www.vorarlberg.at/) > Office of Public Works, Ireland, Ireland (http://www.opw.ie/) > > Bronze Sponsors: > www.molitec.it, Italy (http://www.molitec.it/) > www.argusoft.de, Germany (http://www.argusoft.de/) > www.openrunner.com, France (http://www.openrunner.com/) > GKG Kassel,(Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany (http://www.eschenlaub.de/) > Customer Analytics, USA (http://www.customeranalytics.com/) > Urbsol, Australia (http://www.urbsol.com.au/) > MappingGIS, Spain (http://www.mappinggis.com/) > Lutra Consulting, UK (http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/) > ADLARES GmbH, Germany (http://www.adlares.com/) > Avioportolano Italia, Italy (http://www.avioportolano.it/) > Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH, > University > of Science and Technology, Poland (http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/en/) > > A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and > small > to the project can be seen on our donors list > (http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors). > > If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit our > sponsorship page for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six > monthly > developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing > efforts > (http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship). > > QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to > use it > - in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of > what > your financial or social status is - we believe empowering people with > spatial > decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity. > > Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, > maintain > project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts. > > > Happy QGISing! > > Regards, > > The QGIS Team! > > -- > Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 > Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 > Software Engineer D-26506 Norden > http://www.norbit.de > QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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