Tim Sutton

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

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2017 QGIS Governance Update

2017 QGIS Governance Update

  QGIS Developers and Community Members working on QGIS at our recent meet up in Essen, German, Dear Voting members (and interested QGIS community members out there) This is an open letter that was emailed to all QGIS voting members today Just a quick note from me to thank you for participating…

Call for presentations and workshop proposals: QGIS Conference 2017

Call for presentations and workshop proposals: QGIS Conference 2017

NOTE: Deadline for proposals is May 15 2017 We are going back to Nødebo! Each year we combine one of our QGIS Developer Meetings with a User Conference. The User Conference is a great opportunity for QGIS users to meet developers and share their experiences – both with developers and with…

QGIS Grant Programme #2 Results

QGIS Grant Programme #2 Results

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2017 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: Update on the QGIS Grant Programme QGIS Grants: Call…

Update on the QGIS Grant Applications

Update on the QGIS Grant Applications

In February this year, we put out a call for applications for the second (yay!) round of the QGIS grant programme. The intent of the programme is to leverage donor and sponsor funding in order to support community members with great ideas to improve the underlying infrastructure of the QGIS project…

A report on QGIS Income 2016

A report on QGIS Income 2016

Greetings wonderful QGIS Users, Developers and Supporters! 2016 was quite an exciting year for QGIS – we released QGIS 2.14LTR which has been a great stable release. We also set the wheels in motion for QGIS 3.0 which we plan to release later this year. QGIS development takes a lot of time and…

QGIS Grants #2: Call for Grant Proposals 2017

QGIS Grants #2: Call for Grant Proposals 2017

Dear QGIS Community Last year we held our first ever call for Grant Proposals and it was a great success. If you are an early adopter using QGIS 3.0 preview builds, you can already try out some of the new capabilities that have arrived in QGIS thanks to these grants. We are very pleased to announce…

Minutes of the Inaugural QGIS General Meeting (2016)

Minutes of the Inaugural QGIS General Meeting (2016)

Dear QGIS community members At the end of December 2016, we held our inaugural Annual General Meeting (AGM). It should be noted that QGIS AGM’s will be ‘virtual’ meetings conducted as a questionnaire (for voting / raising motions) and then a report such as the one below, with…

2017 Hackfests and Summer Camp

2017 Hackfests and Summer Camp

Where is QGIS being developed? That is a questions my students often ask. Open Source is a strange and new ‘world’ for most of them. So I try to explain: QGIS is a software, developed and maintained from all over the world by developers who are employed by companies, self-employed or working for…

Let’s make a big funding push for QGIS 3.0!

Let’s make a big funding push for QGIS 3.0!

In 2017 we are planning to release QGIS 3.0. This new major version will become the basis of the next LTR release (QGIS 3.2) and is set to be a sea-change in the development of QGIS. It will modernize the architecture to get rid of many legacy issues that we were unable to resolve in the minor…

Winning QGIS Grant Proposals for 2016

Winning QGIS Grant Proposals for 2016

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2016 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: Update on the QGIS Grant Programme QGIS Grants: Call…