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Registration open for QGIS hackfest in Gran Canaria, November 2015

August 30, 2015 QGIS Project blog

Dear QGIS developers

Collage Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

We will be holding our 14th hackfest in Gran Canaria over November 5th – November 8th, 2015. You can read more about the plans for this meet up and register your intention to attend on the hackfest wikipage. This is a developer centric hackfest where we invite coders, documenters, testers, graphic artists, translators and anyone else who is interested in improving QGIS for the benefit of all our users. General users of QGIS are of course also welcome to join us, but we will not be holding any specific user-centric workshops or talks like we do at our user conferences.

The QGIS hackfests are an important aspect of the project, playing an key role in facilitating collaboration and planning within the community of developers and contributors who combine their efforts to put out three releases of QGIS each year. We rely on the goodwill and sponsorship of our grateful users and their host organisations to financially sustain the QGIS project. If you are in a position of influence, we ask you to please consider sponsoring QGIS to support this hackfest and other project related activities.

We would like to thank Pablo Fernández Moniz and his co-organisers from Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria for organising the event. If you are able to support his event organisation activities in any way, please contact him at 

We look forward to seeing your all there!

The QGIS Team


by timlinux at 6:40 PM under uncategorized (Comments)

Call for applications: QGIS API Documentation Improvement

August 19, 2015 QGIS Project blog

Dear QGIS DevelopersIn the last few years we have been steadily improving the amount of funding we are able to accumulate in the QGIS project. Our goal in obtaining funding is always to ‘make QGIS better’. Up until now we have focussed funding on high profile aspects of the project: Funding regular hackfests, paying for bug fixing work prior to releases, funding infrastructure such as servers, domain name registrations etc.

With improved funding levels we now have the opportunity to also start addressing some of the many less obvious components of QGIS that badly need attention, but often don’t attract volunteers. In our July 2015 PSC meeting it was agreed that we would start this initiative by funding one or more developers to improve the python documentation in QGIS. Here, briefly, is the vision:

Lets take our inspiration from Qt. As a foundational library for QGIS, I have always loved the fact that Qt4 is so well documented. Take a look at this for example – http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qlabel.html#details

The Qt4 documentation provides a readable narrative explaining the purpose (with images and illustrations if needed) of each class. It also provides a code snippet, which in many cases you can simply cut and paste into your code and then tweak to get started.

As a PyQGIS programmer you have two main resources: The QGIS Python cookbook and the QGIS C++ API documentation. The cookbook is an excellent resource, but it is hard to keep it synchronised with the code base – so examples often run the risk of being out of date, or don’t leverage new functionality that makes its way into the code base. The C++ documentation is good in terms of coverage, but it often lacks detail and as a python programmer you may find it a bit off putting since the text is littered with examples using pointers. Also, the C++ documentation isn’t always a one to one match for python users, and doesn’t explain python specific behaviour such as how ownership is passed around with returning objects.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the C++ API documentation also included the content that is in the python cookbook? And wouldn’t it be nice if the C++ documentation became the C++ *and* Python API documentation – catering for users of both programming languages and providing for a single point of reference and maintenance? Even better the python documentation would live right in the C++ code, so that anytime someone touches the code base they can easily maintain the documentation without needing to jump through a lot of hoops.

For this funded effort we are thus seeking one or more individuals to lay the foundation for this work:

  • establish norms and guidelines for improving the doxygen API docs so that each documented resource can include both python and C++ documentation.
  • port the cookbook content over to the API documentation
  • create doxygen pages to provide a starting point for python programmers to be able to carry out common activities they need
  • populate the API docs with Python examples and improved descriptions
  • do these in a nice clear and concise writing style, again taking inspiration from the fine work that Qt has done
  • perhaps do something really smart to generate docs from the SIP API and incorporate it into our doxygen doctree?

If you think this is something you are able to do, please contact the QGIS PSC using this form and let us know!

Click here to apply here if you are interested in this work


by timlinux at 8:45 PM under uncategorized (Comments)

Point release QGIS 2.8.3 ‘Wien’ is ready!

August 6, 2015 QGIS Project blog

We are very pleased to announce the point release of QGIS 2.8.3 ‘Wien’. Wien is German for ‘Vienna’ – host city to our developer meet up in November 2009 and again in March 2014.

As point release it contains no new features, but 150 changes to fix bugs (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/compare/final-2_8_2…final-2_8_3 for a full list).

Even when only fixes are added to software they introduce the possibility of new bugs – if you encounter any problems with this release, please file a ticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker (http://hub.qgis.org/). Please consult the existing and closed issues there before filing any new ones.

The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are already available via the large download link on our home page (http://qgis.org/). More packages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work. Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.

Thanks

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 http://qgis.org and lend a hand!

Finally we would like to thank our official sponsors for the invaluable financial support they provide to this project:

Gold Sponsor:
Asia Air Survey, Japan (http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/)

Silver Sponsors:
Sourcepole AG, Switzerland (http://www.sourcepole.com/)
Office of Public Works, Ireland, Ireland (http://www.opw.ie/)
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (http://www.agh.edu.pl/en)
State of Vorarlberg, Austria (http://www.vorarlberg.at/)

Bronze Sponsors:
Nicholas Pearson Associates, UK (http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/)
QGIS Poland, Poland (http://qgis-polska.org/)
http://www.terrelogiche.com, Italy (http://www.terrelogiche.com)>
http://www.geosynergy.com.au, Australia (http://www.geosynergy.com.au/)
Gaia3D, Inc., South Korea (http://www.gaia3d.com/)
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, UK (http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/)
Chartwell Consultants Ltd., Canada (http://www.chartwell-consultants.com/)
Trage Wegen vzw, Belgium (http://www.tragewegen.be/)
GFI – Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH, Germany (http://www.gfi-gis.de/)
GKG Kassel,(Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany (http://www.eschenlaub.de/)
GIS-Support, Poland (http://www.gis-support.com/)
ADLARES GmbH, Germany (http://www.adlares.com/)
http://www.molitec.it, Italy (http://www.molitec.it/)
http://www.argusoft.de, Germany (http://www.argusoft.de/)
Customer Analytics, USA (http://www.customeranalytics.com/)
Avioportolano Italia, Italy (http://www.avioportolano.it/)
Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection,
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (http://www.wggios.agh.edu.pl/en)
Urbsol, Australia (http://www.urbsol.com.au/)
MappingGIS, Spain (http://www.mappinggis.com/>)
GIS3W, Italy (http://www.gis3w.it/)
Lutra Consulting, UK (http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/)

A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our donors list (http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors).

If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit our sponsorship page for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts (http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship).

QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it – in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what your financial or social status is – we believe empowering people with spatial decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.

Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.

Happy QGISing!

Regards,

The QGIS Team!


by underdark at 8:15 PM under uncategorized (Comments)

QGIS 2.10 ‘Pisa’ released!

July 26, 2015 QGIS Project blog

We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.10 ‘Pisa’. Pisa was the host city to our developer meet up in March 2010.

Latest Release

This is another release following our four monthly schedule.  It again brings many nice new features to QGIS.  With the release of 2.10 the previous release 2.8 ‘Wien’, which is designated a long term release (LTR) is moved to the long term package repositories and is the first to arrive there.  If you are working in a production environment where you wish to be more conservative about rolling out new features to your users, you will probably prefer those. Of course going with the feature frozen LTR also means that you’ll have to learn
to do without all the nice new things introduced in 2.10 and above until the next long term is released next year.

New Features in QGIS 2.10 ‘Pisa’

QGIS 2.10 includes many great new features, tweaks and enhancements to make the most popular Free desktop GIS even more feature filled and useful.  Visit the visual changelog that highlights some of the new additions (http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210/index.html).

Whenever new features are added to software they introduce the possibility of new bugs – if you encounter any problems with this release, please file a ticket on the QGIS Bug Tracker (http://hub.qgis.org).

The source code and binaries for Windows, Debian and Ubuntu are already available via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org.  More packages will follow as soon as the package maintainers finish their work. Please revisit the page if your platform is not available yet.

Thanks

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.org and lend a hand!

Finally we would like to thank our official sponsors for the invaluable financial support they provide to this project:

GOLD Sponsor: Asia Air Survey, Japan
SILVER Sponsor: Sourcepole AG, Switzerland
SILVER Sponsor: State of Vorarlberg, Austria
SILVER Sponsor: Office of Public Works, Ireland, Ireland
BRONZE Sponsor: GeoSynergy, Australia
BRONZE Sponsor: Gaia3D, South Korea
BRONZE Sponsor: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, UK
BRONZE Sponsor: Chartwell Consultants Ltd, Canada
BRONZE Sponsor: Trage Wegen vzw, Belgium
BRONZE Sponsor: GFI – Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH, Germany
BRONZE Sponsor: GKG Kassel,(Dr.-Ing. Claas Leiner), Germany
BRONZE Sponsor: GIS-Support, Poland
BRONZE Sponsor: ADLARES GmbH, Germany
BRONZE Sponsor: www.molitec.it, Italy
BRONZE Sponsor: www.argusoft.de, Germany
BRONZE Sponsor: Customer Analytics, USA
BRONZE Sponsor: Avioportolano Italia, Italy
BRONZE Sponsor: Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH, University of Science and Technology, Poland
BRONZE Sponsor: Urbsol, Australia
BRONZE Sponsor: MappingGIS, Spain
BRONZE Sponsor: GIS3W, Italy
BRONZE Sponsor: Lutra Consulting, UK
BRONZE Sponsor: www.openrunner.com, France

A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our donors list. If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit our sponsorship page for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.

QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it – in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what your financial or social status is – we believe empowering people with spatial decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.

Happy QGISing!

Regards,

The QGIS Team!


by underdark at 3:04 PM under release , uncategorized (Comments)

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