Hello world. Its been a while since I posted anything here so I thought I would post an update for those curious about the planning for QGIS 0.11.0 and QGIS 1.0.

- Code currently in trunk will become QGIS 0.11.0 at the end of this month (first week of July actually)
- After QGIS 0.11.0 is branched off SVN, the code in trunk will become QGIS 1.0
- QGIS 1.0 is is planned to be released mid August.

QGIS is participating in the Google Summer of Code under the OSGeo umbrella.

For information on the program, see: http://code.google.com/soc/2008

We are looking for students interested in participating in the program this summer. For QGIS project ideas, see: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas

Note the student application period runs from March 24th - 31st so time is short. If you are interested please apply. If you have questions regarding potential QGIS projects, feel free to contact me directly [shermange at gmail dot com].

Paolo Cavallini has been named to the QGIS Project Steering Committee and will assume the role of Financial/Marketing Advisor.

Paolo comes from a strong scientific background in zoology (a PhD, and more than 30 publication in international journals, plus conference proceedings and popular papers). Paolo currently heads a small and active group of professionals (biologists and agronomists) under the name Faunalia.

Nominations are now open for the QGIS Project Steering Committee. Nominations are being solicited for the Financial/Marketing Advisor position.

Please read http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Call_for_Nominations_January_2008
for information on the position and how to nominate someone.

In an update to our previous post, “Using QGIS to support protected area monitoring in Vietnam and Laos,”

I have a quick recap with links to some pictures, presentations, and audio files from a great week at FOSS4G. QGIS had a great showing there with lots of buzz about the new 0.9 release and the Python bindings in particular. Check it out at:

Link to reprojected.com post

Aaron

The slides from my presentation "Quantum GIS - Five Years and Counting" are available (PDF, 3MB).

This is basically a "where we came from, where we are, and where we are going" update on the project.

The workbook from the "Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source Software Stack" workshop at FOSS4G2007 is now available as a PDF (1.3MB).

For the QGIS Workshop at the FOSS4G2007 conference we will be using a live CD. The CD works on PCs and Intel Macs and includes QGIS 0.8.1 and 0.9 preview, GRASS, FWTools, PostgreSQL with PostGIS, and Python.

We are planning a "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) meeting for the QGIS community at FOSS4G2007. For details on time and location, see the BOF wiki page.

If you plan to attend, could you please shoot me an email (sherman at mrcc dot com) so I can get an idea of how many folks will be attending?

Thanks and hope to see you at the conference and the QGIS BOF session.