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QGIS 2.18 ‘Las Palmas’ is released!

November 8, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.18 ‘Las Palmas’. The city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was the location of our autumn 2015 developer meeting. This is the last release in the 2.x series. The current Long Term Release (LTR) remains version 2.14.x. This release provides…

Winning QGIS Grant Proposals for 2016

October 4, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board QGIS Grant Programme

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2016 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…

Update on the QGIS Grant Programme

September 25, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding QGIS Grant Programme

At the beginning of August this year, we put out a call for applications in our newly launched 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 and…

What are trusted plugins?

August 26, 2016 by faunaliagis in QGIS Board

The core team of QGIS strives hard to provide the most advanced and user friendly GIS for free use by everyone. In the core QGIS project, every line of code that gets committed is subject to peer review when contributed by a non core developer. This gives us an opportunity to identify and correct…

Results of the QGIS user survey 2015

August 23, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Board

In autumn last year, we ran a rather large-scale user survey, which was translated into many languages and advertised here on this blog. The final reports can be found here: English (1476 responses) Spanish (122 responses) French (457 responses) Portuguese (146 responses) Romanian (30 responses)…

QGIS Grants: Call for applications

August 4, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Funding

We are pleased to announce the first round of funding for the QGIS grant programme. What is the grant programme? The QGIS.ORG grant programme is our way to accelerate and streamline development of the QGIS.ORG project by rewarding committed developers and contributors for their work through a grant…

QGIS 2.16 ‘Nødebo’ is released!

July 22, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We’re happy to announce the release of QGIS 2.16.0 ‘Nødebo’. The University of Copenhagen’s Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management Forest and Landscape College in Nødebo were hosts to the First International QGIS conference and developer meeting in May 2015.…

Report back: 15th QGIS hackfest in Girona, Spain

June 30, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest

Time flies when you are having fun! It seems like only yesterday that I was writing about the 14th Hackfest in Gran Canaria. At the end of May 2016, we held the 15th QGIS hackfest! QGIS has been on an incredible journey since the project was started by Gary Sherman 14 years ago, and the fact that…

Licensing requirements for QGIS plugins

May 29, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board

One thing we have been encountering lately in the QGIS project is plugin authors not understanding the licensing requirements for publishing their QGIS plugins. In this article I will try to clarify this a little: QGIS is Open Source Software and provides a great platform for third parties to…

Call for nominations for voting members of the QGIS.org board.

May 4, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board

Dear QGIS Community members As many of you will be aware, in this last year we have been embarking on the process to transition from a loose-knit community organisation to a more formal organisation. This new organisation ‘QGIS.org’ will be a legal entity and will afford us a greater amount of…