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 safety
• QEP#292 Implementing CI Qt6 Windows Builds through vcpkg

Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #9: Call for Grant Proposals 2024.

The QGIS.ORG Grant Programme aims to support work from our community that would typically not be funded by client/contractor agreements. This means that we did not accept proposals for the development of new features. Instead proposals focus on infrastructure improvements and polishing of existing features.

Voting to select the successful projects was carried out by our QGIS Voting Members. Each voting member was allowed to select up to 6 proposals. The full list of votes are available here (on the first sheet). The following sheets contain the calculations used to determine the winner (for full transparency). The table below summarizes the voting tallies for the proposals:

A couple of extra notes about the voting process:

• Voting was carried out based on the technical merits of the proposals and the competency of the applicants to execute on these proposals.
• No restrictions were in place in terms of how many proposals could be submitted per person / organization, or how many proposals could be awarded to each proposing person / organization.
• Voting was ‘blind’ (voters could not see the existing votes that had been placed).

We received 39 votes from 21 community representatives, 17 user group representatives, and the OSGeo voting member.

On behalf of the QGIS.ORG project, I would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals for this call!