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Tim Sutton writes "Over at qgis.org, the developers of Quantum GIS (QGIS) have been labouring on version 0.8 for nearly a year now. Its been a long slog with a major architectural change — moving from the Qt3 toolkit to Qt4. This lays the foundation for a long lived version 1.0 release in the not too distant future. However close to releasing version 0.8 we get, there always seems to be 'one more bug' to squash though. With some great support from our users, we have now embarked on a funding drive to hire a developer. This marks a turning point in the life of QGIS. We've always been a project made up of dedicated developers dabbling in building a Free and Open Source GIS in our (often limited) spare time. Now we aim to ramp things up a notch. We have had so much good will and thanks from our many users but never had a decent way to channel it. With our sponsorship programme our users now have the opportunity to make a concrete contribution to getting this and future versions of QGIS 'out there'. Initially we plan for the sponsored developer to work solely on bug fixes, with a particular emphasis on getting the Windows version to work more robustly. This is a nod of acknowledgement to the fact that we realise that many, many of our users are working on the Windows platform. If anyone out there on the slashgeo community would like to get involved (for example by advertising our funding drive on your web site / pod cast / blog etc., or becoming an individual or corporate sponsor of QGIS) we look forward to hearing from you! Tim Sutton QGIS Project Steering Committee member"

Voilà une bonne nouvelle pour le SIG libre. Je préfère personnellement uDig à QGIS mais tout dépend de ce que l'on veut faire...
Bravo pour cette initiative et espérons qu'il trouve des fonds!