Tim Sutton

ex QGIS Project Chairman, QGIS Honorary PSC Member, Co-founder of Kartoza.

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QGIS Events Cancellation

QGIS Events Cancellation

Dear QGIS Community: Due to the uncertainty caused by rapidly unfolding global events related to the COVID-19 virus, we have decided to cancel all in-person QGIS events until further notice. This includes the 25th QGIS Contributor meeting and User Conference that was scheduled to be held this year…

Introducing new QGIS macOS packages

Introducing new QGIS macOS packages

We now have signed packages for macOS. You can find these packages published on the official QGIS download page at http://download.qgis.org. Rationale In addition to being a very powerful and user-friendly open source GIS application, QGIS can be installed on different operating systems: MS Windows,…

Call for presentations: QGIS User Conference and Developer Meeting, 2019

Call for presentations: QGIS User Conference and Developer Meeting, 2019

The next International QGIS User Conference and Developer Meeting will take place in the week from 4 to 10 March 2019 in A Coruña (Spain).   The call for presentations and workshop registration is out and you can apply using the online registration form. Note that the deadline for presenting…

Report back on the 20th QGIS Hackfest in Zanzibar

Report back on the 20th QGIS Hackfest in Zanzibar

    This post summarizes personal reports of community members who attended the 20th Hackfest in Stone Town, Zanzibar the week before the FOSS4G in Dar Es Salaam. Report from Matteo Ghetta QGIS developers spent 3 days in the beautiful island of Zanzibar were they worked on bug fixing,…

QGIS User Conference 2018

QGIS User Conference 2018

This year’s QGIS User Conference will be embedded within the FOSS4G conference. That means that you should refer to the FOSS4G web site for all registration and event details with the exception of the QGIS Hackfest (22-26 August) which follows our normal organisation procedure on the QGIS…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2018

Dear QGIS Community   We recently held our 2018 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. As I have previously announced, I have decided to step down as chair of the PSC this year, so this post is my last official act as QGIS Chair. Thank you all…

Documentation for QGIS 3.0 – call for contributions!

Documentation for QGIS 3.0 – call for contributions!

Dear QGIS users, enthusiasts and fine people out there. QGIS 3.0 is coming very soon….we are in a ‘soft freeze’ state at the moment while we wait for some critical last pieces of code to get finalised. Then we go into hard freeze and prepare to roll out our next major release.…

Do you want to host a QGIS developer meeting?

Do you want to host a QGIS developer meeting?

Each year the QGIS.ORG community holds two developer meetings. These events are an important part of our project – they provide an invaluable opportunity for us all to meet face to face and share ideas, discuss issues and plan the future of QGIS. The host of the developer meeting gets a…

Plotting the future of QGIS

Plotting the future of QGIS

During the developer hackfest at our recent QGIS Conference in Nødebo, the developers present had a discussion session about the future (post 3.0) road map for QGIS. Note that the ideas laid out here do no necessarily represent a consensus between all the QGIS developers and community members since…

Report back on the 3rd QGIS Conference in Nødebo, Denmark

Report back on the 3rd QGIS Conference in Nødebo, Denmark

We just wrapped up the 3rd QGIS User Conference at the University of Copenhagen’s “Skovskolen” Forestry and Landscape College, just outside of Copenhagen. The conference programme was split into three parts: A general user conference of three days The a QGIS hackfest – where…