Nowadays I look at lots of software (COTS and Open Source), from many different tiers of the GeoStack, that our clients and prospective clients are considering. When I'm looking at something new to me, I often look first for an introductory tutorial. I recently downloaded and installed Quantum GIS 1.0.0 onto my laptop running Windows Vista SP1 and was pleased to see that it "just worked". My quick impression was that it has an interface which is intuitive, and functionality which is comprehensive. However, it would be great if the home page for Quantum GIS had a link to an introductory tutorial, and data set, that I could use to guide my initial investigations further. For now, I think it looks worth taking a deeper look into at a later date. In the meantime, my suggestion to its team, who have done a great job getting it to where it is today, is that another worthwhile task for its documenters (which could be documented at http://www.qgis.org/documentation.html) would be to create or link to an introductory tutorial from its home page.
Note that I have seen a few references to Quantum GIS tutorials from workshops, and the like, using earlier (pre-1.0.0) releases, but am always happier to spend time running through a tutorial when it is endorsed to work with the latest version.
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Hi Graeme, I dont know if you located it after all but I accessed the user manual/tutorials for QGIS 1.0.0 this morning through the help button in the program.
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