Dear OSGeo4W community,
Helmut Kudrnovsky 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. please have a look at https://www.osgeo.org/projects/osgeo4w/ I've updated now the OSGeo4W entry on the main OSGeo website. if you have ideas/comments how to extend the short description, please drop text snippets/paragraphs here on the mailing list. Kind regards Helmut OSGeo charter member ----- best regards Helmut -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/osgeo4w-dev-OSGeo-Win32-Installer-List-f3765018.html _______________________________________________ osgeo4w-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev
