[Freegis-list] FreeGIS: 3rd generation portal online

[Markus Neteler]

Dear Jan & FreeGIS Team,

congratulations to the launch of the new portal.
It's really nice.

Markus

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:22:46AM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> Dear FreeGIS community,
> 
> finally the new FreeGIS portal is online.
> Thanks for the feedback during beta phase!
> Some things are not yet fully optimal. We
> are working on it.
> 
> All the best
> 
> 	Jan
> 
> 
> Here is the official press release:
> 
> 
> 	Free GIS Software increasingly successful -
> 	3rd generation of expert platform unveiled
> 
> Predictions have proven true: Software for managing geo-data
> increasingly becomes part of our daily life. Beside the obvious car
> navigation especially many web-based applications are popular.
> 
> This is an area where Free Software products are in the lead with
> being flexible and most compatible with technical standards.  To make
> Free Software for geo-data processing widely known, the FreeGIS
> project [1] was started in 1999.  At that time it was only a link
> collection.  Now the project has put the 3rd generation of its web
> portal online shortly after its 5th anniversary.  The new side masters
> the increasing interest with an improved editorial system and
> multi-lingual support.
> 
> "Now we can easily distribute the editorial tasks" explains
> Dr.  Jan-Oliver Wagner, coordinator of the FreeGIS project.
> "This way our volunteers can further increase the quality of
> the portal."
> 
> The FreeGIS project also acts as promoter of commercial use of
> Free GIS Software and emphasizes the professional quality of several
> listed products.  "A successful IT business has developed around this
> within the past few years" says Frank Koormann, managing director of
> Intevation GmbH [2], which hosts the FreeGIS portal on its servers.
> "This trend will continue because many products with high potential
> are yet unvalued. One example is the new GRASS GIS 6.0 [3] which has
> just been released."
> 
> [1] http://www.freegis.org
> [2] http://www.intevation.net
> [3] http://grass.itc.it/
> 
> -- 
> Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/
> 
> Intevation GmbH                      http://intevation.de/
> FreeGIS                                http://freegis.org/