Tim Sutton

Laax, Switzerland, 10 October 2026. More than 420 people from over 30 countries and five continents gathered in Laax from 4 to 9 October for the QGIS User Conference 2026, the largest event ever held on Crap Sogn Gion at 2222 metres above sea level. Two conference days at the Galaaxy venue carried…

Dear QGIS community We know that many of you were waiting patiently for the next LTR release based on QGIS 4.x and Qt6. However, there are still a number of issues with the 4.x builds which leave us hesitant to assign LTR status to a 4.2.x release as originally planned. To address this, we will be…

We want to share some updates we have made on the QGIS Plugin Repository. In January 2026 we shared QEP 409. The proposal seeks to improve the general working practices with QGIS plugins, adding some optional and some mandatory checks to every plugin that gets published in the QGIS plugin repo. This…

QGIS.org is pleased to announce that we will be using some of the funding that is donated to us by our users and sustaining members to fund a dedicated administrative role for the project.  Principle duties: Support the PSC in activities such as organisation of the annual QGIS user conference,…

We have a new website! We recently launched our new website at QGIS.org. It is a ground-up overhaul and provides a fresh take on the first contact point for existing or potential users wishing to engage with the QGIS project and discover its value proposition. A new strategy for QGIS.org…

📒 Background Our web site (https://qgis.org) dates back to 2013, it is time for a revision! As well as modernizing the look and feel of the site, we want the content to be updated to represent changes in the maturity of the project. We want to appeal to new audiences, especially business and NGO…

Background Understanding which regions QGIS is being used in, which versions are in active use, which platforms it is being used on, and how many users we have is hugely beneficial to our ability as a project to serve our users. Back in 2017 at the bi-annual QGIS hackfest in Nødebo, Denmark, we had…

Dear QGIS Users On Friday, 26 March 2021 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the…

On Friday, 26 February 2021 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the event is…

We are running out of space on our server running https://plugins.qgis.org – a sign of success, given the large number of plugins and plugin versions hosted on the platform. On Thursday 28 January at 9am West European Time, we will bring the server offline for a scheduled upgrade to the…