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Videos from A Coruña

April 22, 2019 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

We’re glad to announce that the recorded presentations from our user conference in A Coruña are now available online on the TIB AV-Portal. Enjoy and thanks to all participants, sponsors and organizers!

QGIS Server 3.4.6 certified for WMS 1.3

April 8, 2019 by Régis Haubourg in QGIS Server

We are very happy to announce that QGIS 3.4.6 LTR is now OGC certified as a reference implementation : The OGC certification program gives a third party validation that the a web service is compliant with the standard. The certification process requires manual work, so we will only certify on…

Crowdfunding initiatives in spring 2019

April 2, 2019 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

Currently there are a number of ongoing crowdfunding initiatives for improvements in QGIS that need your support: 1. Diagrams in print layouts, atlas and reports: the popular data plotly plugin for interactive, exploratory charts and diagrams should be enhanced to support embedding in print layouts,…

QGIS 3.6 Noosa is released!

March 24, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.6 ‘Noosa’! Noosa was the location of a local Australian developer meeting in autumn 2017. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.6 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We…

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…