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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…

Announcing the release of 2.8.6 and 2.12.3

January 19, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

The latest bug fix releases 2.8.6 and 2.12.3 have been released according to our release road map. For a list of fixed issues see the commits to 2.8 and commits to 2.12, respectively.

Help us to plan for QGIS 3.0

January 17, 2016 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

Many of you out there may be wondering ‘when are we going to release QGIS 3.0?’. Last year (2015) we started investigating when and how we would release QGIS 3.0. We promised (see Anita Graser’s post about this) that we would convey clearly to our users and developers our plans…

Crowd funding project for reading CAD documents in QGIS

December 8, 2015 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

Local governments on the municipality or provincial level often have to deal with DXF/DWG/DGN documents delivered from architects, urban planners or engineering companies. As an example, cadastral or utility offices or companies often have to import CAD documents to either check deliveries about…

A word of thanks to the hosts of the 14th QGIS Hackfest in Gran Canaria

November 15, 2015 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest

Last weekend (November 5th – November 8th, 2015) was a special occasion for the QGIS Project – we convened the 14th our ‘hackfest’ meeting! QGIS hackfests are events where an organiser provides a space for collaboration and members of the community converge and self-organise to…