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Logo Evolution – Call to User Groups

April 29, 2017 by Anita Graser in QGIS Board

With QGIS 3.0 moving closer, it is also time to get the new QGIS logo out there. QGIS logo evolution We are therefore asking all our user groups to join the project redesign efforts. Please have a look at your user group logo and bring it in line with the QGIS 3.0 design. We have compiled a Visual…

Update on the QGIS Grant Applications

April 4, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding QGIS Grant Programme Uncategorized

In February this year, we put out a call for applications for the second (yay!) round of the QGIS grant programme. The intent of the programme is to leverage donor and sponsor funding in order to support community members with great ideas to improve the underlying infrastructure of the QGIS project…

A report on QGIS Income 2016

February 25, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding

Greetings wonderful QGIS Users, Developers and Supporters! 2016 was quite an exciting year for QGIS – we released QGIS 2.14LTR which has been a great stable release. We also set the wheels in motion for QGIS 3.0 which we plan to release later this year. QGIS development takes a lot of time and…

QGIS Grants #2: Call for Grant Proposals 2017

February 19, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community Last year we held our first ever call for Grant Proposals and it was a great success. If you are an early adopter using QGIS 3.0 preview builds, 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…

Minutes of the Inaugural QGIS General Meeting (2016)

February 5, 2017 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board

Dear QGIS community members At the end of December 2016, we held our inaugural Annual General Meeting (AGM). It should be noted that QGIS AGM’s will be ‘virtual’ meetings conducted as a questionnaire (for voting / raising motions) and then a report such as the one below, with…

2017 Hackfests and Summer Camp

January 10, 2017 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

Where is QGIS being developed? That is a questions my students often ask. Open Source is a strange and new ‘world’ for most of them. So I try to explain: QGIS is a software, developed and maintained from all over the world by developers who are employed by companies, self-employed or working for…

QGIS 3.0 logo voting results

January 8, 2017 by Anita Graser in QGIS Board

It is our pleasure to announce that the QGIS.org voting members have unanimously agreed to the adoption of the proposed new logo. We are currently planning the roll out of the new logo to all our applications, web platforms, and social media accounts. In addition, we will create marketing material…

Happy new year 2017!

January 4, 2017 by Anita Graser in QGIS Board

2016 was an exciting year for us. It was a year with three great releases (2.14 LTR, 2.16 & 2.18), lots of developer and community events (including our 2nd user conference in Girona, the developer meeting in Bonn before FOSS4G & a QGIS Server sprint in Lyon) and many firsts, including the…

New QGIS 3.0 logo candidate

December 13, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Board

If you have been following this blog and the QGIS community discussions, you will know that 2017 is going to be a big year in the history of QGIS since we are planning the release of QGIS 3.0. One of the requests we had during our Girona Hackfest held earlier this year was to come up with a fresher…

Let’s make a big funding push for QGIS 3.0!

November 19, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding

In 2017 we are planning to release QGIS 3.0. This new major version will become the basis of the next LTR release (QGIS 3.2) and is set to be a sea-change in the development of QGIS. It will modernize the architecture to get rid of many legacy issues that we were unable to resolve in the minor…