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QGIS Grants #5: Call for Grant Proposals 2020

April 26, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community, Our previous rounds of grant proposals have always been a great success (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a funded contribution to QGIS, subject to the call…

PyQGIS Cookbook revision 2020

April 19, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Documentation

We are happy to announce that the PyQGIS Cookbook has received a complete overhaul and is now better than ever. The PyQGIS Cookbook is a great source of information, not only for PyQGIS beginners or plugin developers, but also for C++ developers: it contains a lot of information about the internals…

LTR usage survey

April 2, 2020 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

Back in 2018, we asked QGIS users how often they use QGIS and how often they upgrade. Today, we want to find out more about how different user groups and organisations use QGIS and particularly the LTR. You may be aware of ongoing discussions concerning potentially extending the LTR period and other…

QGIS Events Cancellation

March 30, 2020 by Tim Sutton in QGIS User Conference Uncategorized

Dear QGIS Community: Due to the uncertainty caused by rapidly unfolding global events related to the COVID-19 virus, we have decided to cancel all in-person QGIS events until further notice. This includes the 25th QGIS Contributor meeting and User Conference that was scheduled to be held this year…

QGIS 3.12 București is released!

February 26, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.12 ‘București’! Bucharest was the location of our developer meeting at FOSS4G 2019. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.12 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We would…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2019

February 23, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2019, we were able to support six proposals that were aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. These are the reports on the work that has been done within the individual projects: Profile and optimise the QGIS vector…

Public Service Announcement: Update to the latest point release now

January 24, 2020 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

QGIS users who have adopted the 3.10 version when initially released at the end of October 2019 have likely noticed a sharp drop in reliability. The underlying issues have now been addressed in 3.10.2, all users are advised to update *now*. When QGIS 3.10 was first released in the end of October…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2018

January 6, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2018, we were able to support seven proposals that were aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. These are the reports on the work that has been done within the individual projects: Increased stability for Processing GUI…

QGIS Server is ready for the new OGC API for Features protocol.

November 26, 2019 by Andreas Neumann in QGIS Server

The new OGC API for Features (OAPIF) (also formerly known as WFS3) is one of the first protocols of the new generation of OGC web services and we are happy to announce that QGIS Server is ready to serve data following the specifications of this new protocol. A lot of work has been going on during…

QGIS 3.10 A Coruña is released!

November 2, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.10 ‘A Coruña’! A Coruña was the location of our developer meeting and user conference in March 2019. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.10 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual…