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Reports from the winning grant proposals 2017

May 8, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

While we are waiting for this year’s grant proposals to come in, it is time to look back at last year’s winning proposals and their results. These are the reports on the work that has been done within the individual projects: QGIS 3D – Martin Dobias Results are included in the QGIS…

Preparing for the next LTR

May 1, 2018 by Paolo Cavallini in Uncategorized

Dear QGIS users, As you know, QGIS 3 has recently been published. This version introduced big changes in the code structure that, in addition to the new functionalities already exposed, makes our code base more modern and easier to expand and improve on in the future. As a normal by-product of such…

QGIS Grants #3: Call for Grant Proposals 2018

April 15, 2018 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community Our first two rounds of Grant Proposals were a great success. If you are an early adopter using QGIS 3.0, you can already try out some of the new capabilities that have arrived in QGIS thanks to these grants. We are very pleased to announce the third round of grants is now…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018

April 13, 2018 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board Uncategorized

Dear QGIS Community We recently held our 2018 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. As I have previously announced, I have decided to step down as chair of the PSC this year, so this post is my last official act as QGIS Chair. Thank you all…

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…