Our web site at 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, whilst still maintaining appeal to grass roots users.

Thanks to our generous donors and sustaining members, we have funds to appoint a consultant or company to help us with the upgrade to our website. Double click this news item for more details!. Please send your proposal to finance@qgis.org by midnight, October 29nd 2023, anywhere on earth.

The QGIS User Conference '23 is an international 2-day event on April 18 and 19 2023 in The Netherlands. There will be presentations and workshops to get your QGIS knowledge up to date. There will also be space for "unconference" type of meetings, where you can bring your own topics for discussions or workshops and find people who are interested.

QGIS turned 20 last year. Help us get ready for the next 20+ years by becoming a sustaining member!

Every contribution counts.

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On Friday (27th January 2023) we will be holding our regular monthly QGIS Open Day event! QGIS Open Days promote dialogue and sharing of skills, knowledge and experience within the QGIS community. They are also a great way to sit back and have a little fun with other QGIS users from around the world!

We hope you will join us for the exciting sessions we have planned. Double-click this news entry to find out more! If you cannot join the live event, all sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the official QGIS YouTube channel.

On Friday (25th November 2022) we will be holding our regular monthly QGIS Open Day event! QGIS Open Days promote dialogue and sharing of skills, knowledge and experience within the QGIS community. They are also a great way to sit back and have a little fun with other QGIS users from around the world!

We hope you will join us for the exciting sessions we have planned. Double-click this news entry to find out more! If you cannot join the live event, all sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the official QGIS YouTube channel.

Would you like to help improve point clouds, elevation profiles and 3D map views in QGIS? Lutra Consulting, North Road and Hobu are collaborating in a new crowd-funding campaign to extend these capabilities in future QGIS releases!

Highlights of the planned improvements include:

• Point Clouds: Creating point cloud processing tools for transformation, management and analysis of point clouds. Ensuring that extremely large (terabyte size) datasets can be handled well for both display and analysis.
• Elevation Profiles: Support embedding customisable elevation profiles into print layouts and atlases, and allow exporting elevation profiles to CSV and DXF.
• 3D Maps: Faster 3D maps for large scenes, an improved 3D measurement tool and further improvements to 3D scene navigation.

Your financial support is vital to make these improvements possible! Double-click on this entry to read the full details of this exciting campaign and how you can contribute.

This Friday (28th October 2022) we will be holding our regular monthly QGIS Open Day event! QGIS Open Days promote dialogue and sharing of skills, knowledge and experience within the QGIS community. They are also a great way to sit back and have a little fun with other QGIS users from around the world!

We hope you will join us for the exciting sessions we have planned. Double-click this news entry to find out more! If you cannot join the live event, all sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the official QGIS YouTube channel.

QGIS will drop 32-bit support on Windows after the QGIS 3.16 release when we update our Qt dependencies to Qt 5.15. The update to Qt 5.15 is an important step towards staying in sync with Qt developments. Qt 5.15 is the minimum version that will provide forward compatibility with Qt 6. By updating to 5.15, we, therefore, ensure that QGIS is future proof. Please double-click this entry to find out more.

We are extremely proud to present QGIS 3.24 to you, our loyal users. This release is jam-packed with great new features, bug fixes and cartography tools. We named this release 'Tisler' after a small Norwegian island that was a favourite visiting place of Håvard Tveite, who passed away in May 2021. Håvard was a very active member of the QGIS community, providing valuable input to the documentation, developing numerous plugins, and taking care of the QGIS Resources Sharing Repository to name just a few of his contributions. The map on the QGIS 3.24 splash screen is an orienteering map that Håvard has created. He liked spending some time each year map-making at Tisler. To find out more about the wonderful features included in QGIS 3.24, please double click this entry.

Have you been missing all the buzz and excitement around the 6-monthly in-person meetups we used to hold? Perhaps you live far away from Europe and could never join these meetups in person? Well we have great news for you! Starting August Friday 28th 2020, we will be holding day-long virtual meetups on the last friday of each month. Come and chat to the developers and maintainers of QGIS and it's related infrastructure. Talk to other users to share tips and tricks. Collaborate with other like-minded users to work on inititives for yourselves and your community. Attendance is free and all are welcome regardless of your experience or past involvment in the project. Double-click on this news feed entry to find out more!