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This year, we are looking forward to the 3rd installment of our annual QGIS conference and it will be the biggest one yet! The QGIS community, developers and users are meeting from August 2–11, 2017 in Nødebo at University of Copenhagen’s Forest and Landscape College. 1st user conference in…

  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…

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…

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…

With QGIS 3.0 moving closer, it is also time to get the new QGIS logo out there. QGIS logo evolution We are therefore asking all our user groups to join the project redesign efforts. Please have a look at your user group logo and bring it in line with the QGIS 3.0 design. We have compiled a Visual…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…