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QGIS 3.0 Girona is released!

February 23, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.0 ‘Girona’. The city of Girona was the location of our 15th developer meeting. This is the first release in the 3.x series. It comes with tons of new features (see our visual changelog) and under-the-hood updates. As such, we do not expect…

Documentation for QGIS 3.0 – call for contributions!

December 4, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Documentation

Dear QGIS users, enthusiasts and fine people out there. QGIS 3.0 is coming very soon….we are in a ‘soft freeze’ state at the moment while we wait for some critical last pieces of code to get finalised. Then we go into hard freeze and prepare to roll out our next major release.…

QGIS Server refactoring is done!

October 29, 2017 by Anita Graser in QGIS Server

As you may know, QGIS is jumping to a new major version. (Yes!) Doing so was made necessary because of the need to switch to Python 3, Qt5, but also because we needed to break the QGIS API in several places. A year ago there was an appeal on the QGIS developer mailing list about the strong need for…

Do you want to host a QGIS developer meeting?

September 2, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest QGIS User Conference Uncategorized

Each year the QGIS.ORG community holds two developer meetings. These events are an important part of our project – they provide an invaluable opportunity for us all to meet face to face and share ideas, discuss issues and plan the future of QGIS. The host of the developer meeting gets a…

Plotting the future of QGIS

August 25, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding QGIS Hackfest QGIS User Conference

During the developer hackfest at our recent QGIS Conference in Nødebo, the developers present had a discussion session about the future (post 3.0) road map for QGIS. Note that the ideas laid out here do no necessarily represent a consensus between all the QGIS developers and community members since…

Report back on the 3rd QGIS Conference in Nødebo, Denmark

August 15, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding QGIS User Conference

We just wrapped up the 3rd QGIS User Conference at the University of Copenhagen’s “Skovskolen” Forestry and Landscape College, just outside of Copenhagen. The conference programme was split into three parts: A general user conference of three days The a QGIS hackfest – where…

3rd QGIS User Conference

June 13, 2017 by Anita Graser in QGIS Hackfest QGIS User Conference

This year, we are looking forward to the 3rd installment of our annual QGIS conference and it will be the biggest one yet! The QGIS community, developers and users are meeting from August 2–11, 2017 in Nødebo at University of Copenhagen’s Forest and Landscape College. 1st user conference in…

2017 QGIS Governance Update

May 22, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board Uncategorized

QGIS Developers and Community Members working on QGIS at our recent meet up in Essen, German, Dear Voting members (and interested QGIS community members out there) This is an open letter that was emailed to all QGIS voting members today Just a quick note from me to thank you for participating…

Call for presentations and workshop proposals: QGIS Conference 2017

May 1, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest QGIS User Conference Uncategorized

NOTE: Deadline for proposals is May 15 2017 We are going back to Nødebo! Each year we combine one of our QGIS Developer Meetings with a User Conference. The User Conference is a great opportunity for QGIS users to meet developers and share their experiences – both with developers and with…

QGIS Grant Programme #2 Results

April 30, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding QGIS Grant Programme Uncategorized

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2017 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…