We are happy to announce that QGIS User Conference will take place on 9-10 September 2024 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The traditional Contributor Meeting will be held right after the conference on 11-13 September 2024 at the same venue. Learn more about the user conference and the contributor meeting at the event’s web site: https://uc2024.qgis.sk/ The call for papers for the user conference is now open – you can submit proposals for talks and workshops by 31 March 2024: https://uc2024.qgis.sk/call-for-papers/ We have also started call for sponsors, with sponsorship opportunities at various ..read more

Dear QGIS Community, We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a contribution to QGIS funded by our grant fund, subject to the call conditions outlined in the application form. The deadline for this round is in four weeks, on 14 March 2024. There are no new procedures in 2024. Please note the following guidelines established in previous years:  The proposal must be submitted as a ‘QEP’ (QGIS Enhancement Proposal) issue in the repo: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals (tagged as Grant-202 ..read more

Dear QGIS Community, We recently held our 2023 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. This year, we did not have PSC elections. Anita Graser will continue as Vice-Chair, I will continue to serve on the PSC as chair, and our longstanding treasurer, Andreas Neumann, will complete the board. Furthermore, Jürgen Fischer, Alessandro Pasotti, and Régis Haubourg will continue on the PSC. Last but certainly not least, the PSC is completed by our project founder, Gary Sherman, and long-term PSC member Tim Sutton, who serve on the PSC as honorary PSC ..read more

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.34 Prizren! Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.34 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. QGIS 3.34 Prizren is named after this year’s FOSS4G host city. We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so). From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please wander along to qgis ..read more

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 decision makers (in particular the experience for the front pages), whilst still maintaining appeal to grass roots users (especially the lower level pages which contain many technical details and community collaboration notes). We want to enhance our fund raising efforts through a site that encourages ..read more

Thanks to our generous donors and sustaining members, we are in the wonderful position to be able to further extend our 2023 Grant Programme and to fund two additional projects that came in very close 5th and 6th in the voting results: QEP#261 Cachable provider metadata API — or how to the QGIS loading times QEP#236 Unification of all geometric and topological verification methods On behalf of the QGIS.ORG project, I would like to thank everyone who helped with the fund raising and everyone who stepped up and joined our donor and sustaining membership programme ..read more

In August 13 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot. Cesium ion Browse and add datasets from Cesium ion Land Use Analyzer A plugin for Land Use spatial analysis tools GNAVS GNSS Navigate and Save Soar – the new atlas Import or export maps via the Soar platform FotovolCAT Spatial analysis automation for solar power station sitting in Catalonia ..read more

QGIS Server provides numerous services like WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and OGC API for Features. These last years, a lot of efforts were made to offer a robust implementation of the WMS 1.3.0 specification. We are pleased to announce that QGIS Server LTR 3.28 is now certified against WMS 1.3.0. This formal OGC certification process is performed once a year, specifically for the Long Term Release versions. But, as every change in QGIS source code is now tested against the formal OGC test suites (using OGC TeamEngine) to avoid any kind of regressions, you can always check any revision of the code agai ..read more

In this summer plugin update, we explore 51 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot. JAPATI The QGIS plugin is used by agencies in the West Java provincial government to upload data and create map services on the geoserver in order to publish data internally and publicly BD TOPO® Extractor This tool allows you to extract specific data from IGN’s BD TO ..read more

We are happy to announce that OSGeo kindly extended an invitation to have a QGIS contributor meeting joining the OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 during the Big Data from Space 2023 conference in Vienna. The 26th QGIS Contributor Meeting will be held from Monday, November 6th to Thursday, 11th. Where: Austria Center Vienna https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.2343/16.4144 When:  Mon 2023-⁠⁠11-06 09:00 -⁠⁠ Thu 2023-11-09 12:00 For more details and to sign up, please visit the corresponding OSGeo announcement page. About QGIS contributor meetings QGIS Contributors Meetings are vo ..read more