[Gvsig_english] Call for Mac Community contributors.

[Jorge Piera Llodrá]

I thought it was impossible to break a Mac :-)

Enjoy your new laptop!

Regards,
Jorge


On 05/17/2011 05:09 PM, Rafa Gaitan wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
>
> Maybe you already know that, but I will continue collaborating with
> Mac version. At least now I have a new apple laptop (the last one
> crashed in the middle of a speech! :O).
>
> Cheers,
> Rafa.
>
>
> 2011/5/17 Manuel Madrid<mmadrid at gvsig.com>:
>    
>> Hello all and sorry for crossposting.
>>
>> As you all know one of the main benefits of FOSS projects is the
>> community participation. Community contributions make projects better
>> and greater, covering areas that otherwise they couldn’t achive. One of
>> these areas is multiple Operative System support.
>>
>> Currently gvSIG officialy supports some GNU/Linux distributions and
>> Windows but thanks to Rafael Gaitán and the ai2 Institute of the
>> Universidad Politécnica de Valencia [1] (the gvSIG 3D extension team
>> [2]) there is for a while a gvSIG non-oficial distribution for Mac OS X
>> [3], increasing the supported platforms to this new one.
>>
>> This is, with no doubt, a great contribution for the project, specially
>> appreciated for OS X users, and we think it could be a good starting
>> point to definitely boost the gvSIG Mac Community in order to have a
>> gvSIG distribution for Mac from now on.
>>
>> We think it would be interesting to promote the creation of a working
>> group composed of Mac developers and users whose goal would be, first of
>> all, define the minimum roles and tasks needed to carry out the
>> maintenance of the distribution, and secondly, to carry out these tasks.
>>
>> The working group would work autonomously under supervision of a gvSIG
>> TSC Board member and it would have the support of the gvSIG development
>> and testing teams.
>>
>> Those who are interested in actively participate in this working group,
>> please, reply to this mail on the list or, if you prefer, send me a
>> private e-mail (mmadrid [at] gvsig [dot] com) introducing yourself,
>> indicating your profile (developer/user) and the tasks you think you can
>> contribute on.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Manuel.
>>
>> [1] http://www.ai2.upv.es/en/index.php
>> [2]
>> http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.10/extensiones-gvsig-1.10/extension-3d
>> [3] http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/other-distributions
>> --
>> Manuel Madrid.
>> Product and testing manager.
>> gvSIG project (http://www.gvsig.org).
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