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QGIS 3.38 Grenoble is released!

June 27, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.38 Grenoble! Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. QGIS 3.38 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many folks out there who…

Plugin Update – December 23′ to January 24′

June 24, 2024 by adelcidesvGIS in Plugin update

Between December 2023 and January 2024, 45 new plugins were published in the QGIS plugin repository. On top of those, we also included another 4 from the last week of November. Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions catches your…

QGIS Grant Programme 2024 Update no. 2

June 14, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Thanks to generous supporters, we are in the wonderful position to be able to announce that another project is successfully funded: QEP#248 Authentication System: allow Database storage for authentication DB Our thanks go out to: Gis3W QTIBIA Engineering and QCooperative QGIS User Group Germany…

Danish User Group becomes Flagship Member

June 7, 2024 by Anita Graser in QGIS Funding Sustaining Membership Updates

QGIS User Groups all over the world have become an essential component of the QGIS community. They provide a point of contact for local users and developers and help people connect through localized communication channels or by organizing events. Another important aspect of users groups is that many…

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…