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With QGIS 3.0 moving closer, it is also time to get the new QGIS logo out there. QGIS logo evolution We are therefore asking all our user groups to join the project redesign efforts. Please have a look at your user group logo and bring it in line with the QGIS 3.0 design. We have compiled a Visual…

Dear QGIS community members At the end of December 2016, we held our inaugural Annual General Meeting (AGM). It should be noted that QGIS AGM’s will be ‘virtual’ meetings conducted as a questionnaire (for voting / raising motions) and then a report such as the one below, with…

It is our pleasure to announce that the QGIS.org voting members have unanimously agreed to the adoption of the proposed new logo. We are currently planning the roll out of the new logo to all our applications, web platforms, and social media accounts. In addition, we will create marketing material…

2016 was an exciting year for us. It was a year with three great releases (2.14 LTR, 2.16 & 2.18), lots of developer and community events (including our 2nd user conference in Girona, the developer meeting in Bonn before FOSS4G & a QGIS Server sprint in Lyon) and many firsts, including the…

If you have been following this blog and the QGIS community discussions, you will know that 2017 is going to be a big year in the history of QGIS since we are planning the release of QGIS 3.0. One of the requests we had during our Girona Hackfest held earlier this year was to come up with a fresher…

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2016 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: Update on the QGIS Grant Programme QGIS Grants: Call…

The core team of QGIS strives hard to provide the most advanced and user friendly GIS for free use by everyone. In the core QGIS project, every line of code that gets committed is subject to peer review when contributed by a non core developer. This gives us an opportunity to identify and correct…

In autumn last year, we ran a rather large-scale user survey, which was translated into many languages and advertised here on this blog. The final reports can be found here: English (1476 responses) Spanish (122 responses) French (457 responses) Portuguese (146 responses) Romanian (30 responses)…

One thing we have been encountering lately in the QGIS project is plugin authors not understanding the licensing requirements for publishing their QGIS plugins. In this article I will try to clarify this a little: QGIS is Open Source Software and provides a great platform for third parties to…

Dear QGIS Community members As many of you will be aware, in this last year we have been embarking on the process to transition from a loose-knit community organisation to a more formal organisation. This new organisation ‘QGIS.org’ will be a legal entity and will afford us a greater amount of…