When I started organising the Italian Desktop comparison, I tried to involve both the community of developers and users.
Regarding developers, you might remember an email asking the QGis and gvSig for a first meeting in Sydney to which I got no answer. So nothing happened from that side. Also as much as I find the idea of people getting users of different GIS cool, I think that might end in being too much efforth people would like to put in. Also note that all of the presenters came with the latest versions of their software, straight out of the svn or even not yet in svn :) So probably they all will want to show the latest thing they have on. Regarding the user community, I got a couple of requests, but they were more on what the GIS can do and not benchmarking or so. Most of the people that contacted me were from public administrations that had to think about migrating, so they would have loved to find a GIS that could fullfill all their ArcView requirements. It came up to things like: can I print A0?, can I do a table join? Andrea On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Stefan Steiniger <sst...@geo.uzh.ch> wrote: > mhm.. I like that idea (and also have some answers - that I got from the > iGeoDesktop Crew and OrbisGIS, two pretty new Desktop GIS). > > but here the question: is it as valuable for the end user? or rather "our" > thing. > > Brian Russo schrieb: >> >> I think a more interesting presentation would be why there are so many >> desktop GIS packages, the consequent pros/cons, and if/how efforts could be >> consolidated. >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
