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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…

Promoting and using QGIS for the enterprise

April 23, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board

Over the years, QGIS has gained more functionality, more users and more people and organisations who make their livelihood from it. As an Open Source project, there are two things that we value most highly (and equally): Our community of users Our community of project contributors The two groups are…

QGIS 2.14 ‘Essen’ is released!

March 1, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Release Announcements

QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.14 ‘Essen’. Essen was the host city to our developer meet ups in October 2012 and 2014. Long Term Release This is a…

QGIS User & Developer conference – Extension of presentation and workshop submissions deadline

February 16, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS User Conference

The Call for Papers and Workshops for the 2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference, is still open! Call for Presentations Deadline: February 22nd The QGIS Conference presentations are 20 minutes long, with time for Q&A at the end of each talk. Presentations may cover any aspect…

QGIS 3.0 plans

February 10, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Board

Ok so quick spoiler here: there is no QGIS 3.0 ready yet, nor will there be a QGIS 3.0 for some time. This article provides a bit more detail on the plans for QGIS 3.0. A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the considerations for the 3.0 release, so you may want to read that first before…

Announcing the QGIS hackfests 2016

January 25, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Hackfest

Dear QGIS developers This year, just like in the previous years, we will have two developer-centric hackfests, where we invite coders, documenters, testers, graphic artists, translators, and anyone else who is interested in improving QGIS for the benefit of all our users: May 27th-29th in Girona,…

Present at the 2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference!

January 20, 2016 by Tim Sutton in QGIS User Conference

The Call for Presentations and Workshops for the 2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference, is already open! The Local Organising Committee of the 2nd International QGIS User and Developer Conference, is pleased to announce the call for Presentations and Workshops for the 2016 Conference…