4. Financial Climate
The UK Public Sector is subject to significant
cuts in funding.
In Wales Local Authority spending is being cut
by 3.8% in this year.
With savings increasingly difficult to find,
software licenses must come under scrutiny.
5. More to come
There has been an 8% reduction in the overall
Welsh Assembly Government funding since
2012
A further £50m of cuts are forecast for next
financial year.
6. UK Public Sector Spend
£200,000,000
2010-2014 (source: Guardian
29/1/2014)
£800,000,000
Projection 2010-2014 (source:
Computer World 28/03/2012)
7. A new view of IT
Invest in your people,
not expensive
software licenses
9. The commercial way
Commercial Licenses
Training
Costs
Staff Salaries
IT
Overh
eads
Commercial Licenses Staff Salaries
IT
Overh
eads Now
What?
10. The Open Source Way
Financial
Savings
Money for
training –
first time
in years
Higher
productivity
New ways of
working
More
Savings
You can get rid of your
expensive commercial
licenses….
16. So…
Once users realise the reason behind
this change and have the time to get
to grips with it, they usually come
round.
17. Motivation
Organisation A
wants a
programme
developed
They pay a
developer to make
it for them as an
open source
project
Organisation B
Uses the
programme, but
wants to make it
better
They pay a
developer to
improve the
programme
Organisation A
gets the
improved
programme for
free
Organisation B gets the
improved programme
cheaper than a new
programme would have
cost
19. QGIS
July 2002 – First
Version of QGIS
came out,
named for the
developer’s
pets.
January 2008 –
Version 0.9,
“Ganymede”
brings new
professionalism
to Quantum
April 2013 –
Version 2.0 brings
together a new
interface and
better
functionality. Now
known as simply
QGIS.
20152002
20. QGIS 2.10 - Pisa Long Term release remains 2.8
21. QGIS in Context
OSGeo is the organisation
that looks after QGIS. They
support the development of
lots of different Open Source
GIS packages.
To support the collaborative development of open source
geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.
22. So How Do You Start?
It’s simple to download QGIS and get started on
it – go to
www.qgis.org
And download the installer
23. Interested in Training?
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