[Gvsig_english] Call for Mac Community contributors.

[Agustin Diez Castillo]

Some people claim that "Defective by design" was a Steve Job's idea. But I will say that in average Macs last longer than PCs even if you're running applications developed without having MacOS on mind (i.e. gvSIG) ;-)

On May 17, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Jorge Piera Llodrá wrote:

> 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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>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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