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We’re glad to announce that the recorded presentations from our user conference in A Coruña are now available online on the TIB AV-Portal. Enjoy and thanks to all participants, sponsors and organizers!  

We are very happy to announce that QGIS 3.4.6 LTR is now OGC certified as a reference implementation : The OGC certification program gives a third party validation that the a web service is compliant with the standard. The certification process requires manual work, so we will only certify on…

Currently there are a number of ongoing crowdfunding initiatives for improvements in QGIS that need your support: 1. Diagrams in print layouts, atlas and reports: the popular data plotly plugin for interactive, exploratory charts and diagrams should be enhanced to support embedding in print layouts,…

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.6 ‘Noosa’! Noosa was the location of a local Australian developer meeting in autumn 2017. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.6 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We…

On behalf of QGIS.ORG and the whole community, I’m would like to extend our thanks and congratulations to all the local volunteers who helped to make the event happen, with special thanks to Luigi “Ginetto” Pirelli, who spearheaded the effort. The event, which included a full week…

QGIS 3.4 has recently become our new Long Term Release (LTR) version. This is a major step in our history – a long term release version based on the massive updates, library upgrades and improvements that we carried out in the course of the 2.x to 3x upgrade cycle. We strongly encourage all…

In January, we wanted to learn more about if and how QGIS users contribute back to the project. We received 299 responses from all over the world: 55% of responders have contributed to the project in the past: Responders who stated that they had contributed to QGIS were asked to specify what kind of…

In December, we wanted to know what QGIS.ORG should focus on in 2019. Portuguese Based on these results, in today’s PSC meeting, we’ve decided that the 2019 grant programme will be focusing on bug fixing and polishing existing features. So thanks to everyone who provided feedback! New…

It’s December and that means it is time to plan for the next year. Planning also means preparing a budget and to do so, we would like to learn more about what you think QGIS.ORG should focus on: features or bug fixing and polishing? Therefore, we invite you to our QGIS user question of…

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…