[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 1.9.1

[Luis W. Sevilla]

Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
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> On 30/03/10 00:13, Gismael wrote:
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>> Ben,
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>> getting funny questions answered in zero time is the most convincing reason
>> to consider os.
>>     
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> LoL
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>> So after seeing our current sw provider taking weeks of time answering
>> serious questions, the fundamental direction is sorted out already.
>>
>>     
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> Well I think our lists are quite active and more or less any question
> is resolved. Sometimes someone is warnocked but it's not so usual.
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>> Without having gotten into details, I estimate that the spanish authority
>> which has launched gvSIG has made use of EU funding for its project
>> accepting to make the outcome open source. What gives me the frown is to see
>> it half way between completely community-developped Qgis and lets say uDIG,
>> thus being forced to make it available to the public but also forging it
>> into the preferred direction.
>>     
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> First was open source, next was funded by EU what boosted the
> development. gvSIG was born from an internal aim to migrate all their
> systems to free software. Take a look on this interesting document
> about the gvPontis project.
>
> http://is.gd/b5KNZ (PDF 6.3MB)
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That was I looked for on gvpontis site, but was unaware of that link
> No one but forced to make it available at all. gvSIG was since its
> conception free. Maybe not free in the common way other projects
> started, as it was developed by company on public contract, but all
> the releases were published under GPL.
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And not only that. From the beginning the project was conceived as 
participative, so 3 mailing list started just a month after first 
release, and were added as translations as possible as soon someone was 
interested in jump on board. 5 meetings and tones of presentations 
traveling, and participations in as many forums as possible (GIS and SDI 
specially) supposed also a great amount of energy for developing the 
project.

And from the beginning first requirement was to be a substitution tool 
for commercial available (privative) ones, in a day by day public 
government offices work. I think this (and the firm believing in SDI 
architectures) marked a lot the projection of gvSIG.
>> Keep  it open, make it lively and give me plugin repositories that overwhelm
>> me.
>>
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> The number of extensions being developed using gvSIG as base
> techonology is growing. We expect with the 2.0 refactoring, scripting
> will be easy and more consistent, as well as many other improvements,
> specially on the data access side.
>
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>> By the way: explaining that in comes from Spain, is available in about 15
>> languages, having a British developped branch with the best German
>> translation available made sceptics somewhat interested.
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> Why it should be explained that it comes from Spain?
>
> Well, yes, many of its documents are in Spanish, but the translation
> activity is really active. There are not so many software that can say
> they are in swahili, at least in geomatics.
>
> Good night, that's enough for today :-)
>
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> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> gvSIG Team
> Technical Steering Committee Manager
> http://www.gvsig.org
> http://www.gvsig.com
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