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A Coruña contributors meeting: another step forward for the QGIS.ORG project!

March 10, 2019 by Paolo Cavallini in QGIS Hackfest QGIS User Conference

On behalf of QGIS.ORG and the whole community, I’m would like to extend our thanks and congratulations to all the local volunteers who helped to make the event happen, with special thanks to Luigi “Ginetto” Pirelli, who spearheaded the effort. The event, which included a full week…

End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

March 9, 2019 by Paolo Cavallini in QGIS Release Announcements

QGIS 3.4 has recently become our new Long Term Release (LTR) version. This is a major step in our history – a long term release version based on the massive updates, library upgrades and improvements that we carried out in the course of the 2.x to 3x upgrade cycle. We strongly encourage all…

User question of the Month – Feb’19 & answers from Jan

February 5, 2019 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized User question of the month

In January, we wanted to learn more about if and how QGIS users contribute back to the project. We received 299 responses from all over the world: 55% of responders have contributed to the project in the past: Responders who stated that they had contributed to QGIS were asked to specify what kind of…

User question of the Month – Jan’19 & answers from Dec

January 7, 2019 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

In December, we wanted to know what QGIS.ORG should focus on in 2019. Portuguese Based on these results, in today’s PSC meeting, we’ve decided that the 2019 grant programme will be focusing on bug fixing and polishing existing features. So thanks to everyone who provided feedback! New…

User question of the Month – Dec’18 & answers from Nov

December 3, 2018 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

It’s December and that means it is time to plan for the next year. Planning also means preparing a budget and to do so, we would like to learn more about what you think QGIS.ORG should focus on: features or bug fixing and polishing? Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of…

Call for presentations: QGIS User Conference and Developer Meeting, 2019

December 3, 2018 by Tim Sutton in QGIS User Conference

The next International QGIS User Conference and Developer Meeting will take place in the week from 4 to 10 March 2019 in A Coruña (Spain). The call for presentations and workshop registration is out and you can apply using the online registration form. Note that the deadline for presenting…

Results of the MacOS bug fixing initiative

November 19, 2018 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

Thanks to your donations, we were able to hire core developers to focus on solving Mac OS specific issues for QGIS. More than 30 MacOS QGIS users donated a little more than 3000 € for this bug fixing round. After an effort of triage and testing, here is what has been achieved: The map canvas is now…

User question of the Month – Nov’18

November 11, 2018 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

QGIS 2.18 is the third LTR since we started this effort back in 2015 and next year will see the first LTR of QGIS 3. On this occasion, we want to learn more about our users and which versions of QGIS they use. Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of the month.

Report back on the 20th QGIS Hackfest in Zanzibar

November 5, 2018 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest

This post summarizes personal reports of community members who attended the 20th Hackfest in Stone Town, Zanzibar the week before the FOSS4G in Dar Es Salaam. Report from Matteo Ghetta QGIS developers spent 3 days in the beautiful island of Zanzibar were they worked on bug fixing,…

QGIS 3.4 Madeira is released!

October 28, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.4 ‘Madeira’! Madeira was the location of our developer meeting in February 2018. Windows installers and Ubuntu/debian binaries are already out, and all the packagers are actively preparing packages for the other operating systems.…