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Felt renews their Flagship-level Sustaining Membership

May 30, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Funding Sustaining Membership Updates

We’re delighted to announce Felt’s continued flagship-level sustaining membership of QGIS. Felt’s contributions will allow us to continuously improve QGIS’ functionality and documentation, as well as the QGIS project infrastructure, including our 2024 Grant Programme. In addition to their…

QGIS Grant Programme 2024 Update

May 8, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Thanks to our generous donors and sustaining members, we are in the wonderful position to be able to further extend our 2024 Grant Programme and to fund an additional project that came in very close 6th in the voting results: QEP#269 Update older annotation items to new framework On behalf of the…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2023

May 4, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2023, we were able to support four proposals in the first round and an additional two proposals through the second round that are aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. The following reports summarize the work performed…

QGIS Grant Programme 2024 Results

May 1, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

We are extremely pleased to announce the 5 winning proposals for our 2024 QGIS.ORG grant programme: QEP#289 Authentication system revision (v1.1) QEP#291 Mitigate Abusive Tile Fetching on OpenStreetMap (OSM) QEP#287 PyQGIS linter warnings QEP#290 Clean up point cloud index and improve its thread…

QGIS 3.36 Maidenhead is released!

February 28, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.36 Maidenhead! Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. QGIS 3.36 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. Windsor and Maidenhead borough council was one of the first UK local authorities to move to QGIS…

Save the date & call for contributions: QGIS user conference and contributor meeting in Bratislava

February 20, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Hackfest QGIS User Conference

We are happy to announce that QGIS User Conference will take place on 9-10 September 2024 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The traditional Contributor Meeting will be held right after the conference on 11-13 September 2024 at the same venue. Learn more about the user conference and the contributor meeting…

QGIS Grants #9: Call for Grant Proposals 2024

February 15, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community, We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a contribution to QGIS funded by our grant fund, subject to the call conditions outlined in the application form. The deadline for this round is in…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2023

December 23, 2023 by Anita Graser in QGIS Board

Dear QGIS Community, We recently held our 2023 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. This year, we did not have PSC elections. Anita Graser will continue as Vice-Chair, I will continue to serve on the PSC as chair, and our longstanding treasurer,…

Plugin Update Sept-Nov 2023

December 2, 2023 by Anita Graser in Plugin update

This autumn, from September to November, 84 new plugins have been published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table…

QGIS 3.34 Prizren is released!

November 5, 2023 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.34 Prizren! Installers for Windows and Linux are already out. QGIS 3.34 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. QGIS 3.34 Prizren is named after this year’s FOSS4G host city. We would like to thank the…