Carson Farmer has posted some feedback on his analysis library work during the Vienna 2009 to his blog.

I have created a detailed report on my experiences of the QGIS hackfest over at the linfiniti.com blog.

Enjoy!

As Gary announced in his last post, I'm one of the students accepted for Google's Summer of Code program. During the summer I'm going to work on better label placement capabilities. Since the application form is not publicly available, I put here the interesting part that briefly describes the main areas I'm going to address. If you have any suggestions, please leave me a note in the comments.

My previous post appears to have caused confusion for some. Be assured that the post was an April Fools joke.

QGIS is Free and Open Source Software and will remain so. There have been no changes to the project management, license, or philosophy. The development team is hard at work and preparing for a new release in the near future.

Thank you to our sponsors and contributors

The QGIS 2009 hackfest was a great success in a large part due to the various people and institutions that aided us.

We would firstly like to give our heartfelt thanks to Otto Dassau who organised the event and ran around making sure that everything ran smoothly for the event, and to thank Larissa Junek who kept 10 hungry hackers plied with delicious apple pie and cake.

QGIS Hackfest Interviews:

We took a few minutes to introduce ourselves at the hackfest 2009:

Werner Macho (english)

Otto Dassau (german)

Saturday 21 March, late evening: Hackfest Day 3

Ok not much blogging today - but we put up some spiffy videos of ourselves.

Juergen and Martin have been pouring over the Postgres provider code to try to improve the performace.

Martin has been working on the new table integration.

Carson QgsGeometry and the QGIS Analysis library, writing unit tests and porting java analysis stuff to C++.

Werner has got the German translation of Stable branch to 100%. He also did his first steps in C++ to fix a bug in the display of the About box on non Mac platforms.

Dear QGIS Users

Over the weekend I announced that we are putting out a second preview for QGIS 1.0.0. Various binaries are now available including for Windows, Mac OS X, Open Suse Linux (versions 10.2 and 11), Ubuntu Linux (versions 7.10,8.04,8.10) and Fedora (versions 8,9,10). You can download from here:

http://download.qgis.org

In case it isn't clear, please note that our terminology of 'preview' means 'not quite finished / a taster for what the final product is going to be like'. When the final QGIS 1.0.0 comes out the preview suffix will drop away.

Hi Folks

This is a repeat of an email sent to the QGIS community for wider dissemination.

Contents:

1) QGIS 1.0 Preview II Tagged
2) Preview II checkout notes
3) Packagers
4) Plugin Writers
5) Release Team
6) QGIS Users & Developers
7) OSGEO Africa
8) Special note for Ubuntu 8.10 Users

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1) QGIS 1.0 Preview II Tagged

We are inching closer to a QGIS 1.0 release. With the QGIS API revision
done, and heaps more bug fixes from our dedicated team of developers, I