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

[GIS Dude]

Very nice. Great work FreeGIS team.

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:
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>	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/
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