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Carson Farmer has posted some feedback on his analysis library work during the Vienna 2009 to his blog.
I have created a detailed report on my experiences of the QGIS hackfest over at the linfiniti.com blog.
Enjoy!
Introduction
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS), licensed under the GNU General Public License, that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. It supports vector, raster, and database formats (including the most common ESRI ShapeFile and geotiff). QGIS supports a wide variety of plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS, and much more. They can be easily managed through the Plugin Manager.
As an open source project, we provide support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker:
- For general enquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
- For developer related enquiries subscribe to our separate developers list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
- If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact information in case we need help with replicating your issue. The tracker is available at https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/
Sponsoring
We are still looking for sponsors to help us cover the costs of holding our second QGIS developer meeting in Vienna, Austria from 5-9 November 2009. If you are interested in supporting us, please visit: http://qgis.org/en/developer-meeting.html for more details!
Whats new in Version 1.3.0?
We are very pleased to announce the releases of QGIS 1.2 'Daphnis'.
Our 1.x release series are provided to offer users a chance to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed more for those who value new features over user interface and API consistency.
Binary and source code packages are available on Download page.
Along with the release of QGIS 1.2.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.2. The guide will be available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is available.
QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen.
If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit http://www.qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html . QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so.
Read on for the QGIS 1.2.0 changelog...
The QGIS main web site, wiki, and downloads are now available from an alternate mirror (thanks Otto).
Navigate to http://qgis.org.
If it doesn't work, wait a while and try again. It will take a bit of time for the DNS changes to propagate.
A number of QGIS web sites are down due to a hardware problem at OSGeo. This is affecting other projects was well.
At present access to the QGIS download site is also down. Currently http://download.qgis.org points to an older version of the download page. You can directly access the QGIS download directory at http://download.osgeo.org/qgis, however you will have to navigate the directory tree to find the latest version for your platform.
Once service is restored, the domains will be redirected to the appropriate sites. You can check to see if the server has come back up by trying to navigate to http://qgis.osgeo.org.
We are very pleased to simultaneously announce the releases of QGIS 1.0.2 (stable release) and QGIS 1.1.0 (unstable release).
Our 1.0.x 'stable' release series are part of our effort to provide a stable, unchanging, long term supported environment. Each minor release in our stable series contains only bug fixes and no new features. For a list of bugs that were closed in the 1.0.2 release, please see the 1.0.2 release milestone.
Our 'unstable' release series are provided to offer users a chance to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed more for those who value new features over stability.
Binary and source code packages are available at http://qgis.org
Along with the release of QGIS 1.1.0, the QGIS Community Team is also extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of the QGIS Users' Guide version 1.1. The guide can be downloaded from http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html.
Read on for the QGIS 1.1.0 changelog...
As Gary announced in his last post, I'm one of the students accepted for Google's Summer of Code program. During the summer I'm going to work on better label placement capabilities. Since the application form is not publicly available, I put here the interesting part that briefly describes the main areas I'm going to address. If you have any suggestions, please leave me a note in the comments.
Two QGIS related GSOC 2009 projects have been approved:
- Label placement for Quantum GIS - Martin Dobias
- OssimPlanet integration in Grass and Qgis - Massimo Di Stefano
Congratulations to Martin and Massimo. Other projects approved under the OSGeo umbrella can be found on the GSOC website at:
My previous post appears to have caused confusion for some. Be assured that the post was an April Fools joke.
QGIS is Free and Open Source Software and will remain so. There have been no changes to the project management, license, or philosophy. The development team is hard at work and preparing for a new release in the near future.
Due to long-standing issues and the inability to control and manage the source code, QGIS is going closed source effective today, 2009-04-01. The software is no longer licensed as free software but rather is to be managed by a consortium made up of several key developers.
Thank you to our sponsors and contributors
The QGIS 2009 hackfest was a great success in a large part due to the various people and institutions that aided us.
We would firstly like to give our heartfelt thanks to Otto Dassau who organised the event and ran around making sure that everything ran smoothly for the event, and to thank Larissa Junek who kept 10 hungry hackers plied with delicious apple pie and cake.
QGIS Hackfest Interviews:
We took a few minutes to introduce ourselves at the hackfest 2009:
Werner Macho (english)
Otto Dassau (german)
Saturday 21 March, late evening: Hackfest Day 3
Ok not much blogging today - but we put up some spiffy videos of ourselves.
Juergen and Martin have been pouring over the Postgres provider code to try to improve the performace.
Martin has been working on the new table integration.
Carson QgsGeometry and the QGIS Analysis library, writing unit tests and porting java analysis stuff to C++.
Werner has got the German translation of Stable branch to 100%. He also did his first steps in C++ to fix a bug in the display of the About box on non Mac platforms.
Well I've finally released my graph colouring plugin, 'topocolour'.
Are you bored with Qgis' default of loading a polygon map and setting all the polygons the same colour? Well why not try 'TopoColour'! It combines the prettiness of ColorBrewer palettes with graph theory to colour your polygons so that no adjacent polygons are the same colour. In just two easy steps!
So I have been playing with the new WebKit support in QT 4.4+ via the python bindings in PyQt. Pretty cool stuff and I think it will have quite a bit of potential within QGIS in the future.
The OSGeo4W stuff crept up on me quietly. Suddenly there's this cygwin-like installer that bundles Qgis, uDig, Grass, web-mapping, and all the lovely libs in one neato package. That's a win.
But I still wanted an easy way to install qgis without the use having to choose which of the packages they wanted, and set options to install, and not get confused by some of the other options in the installer. So I went on the hunt for how to do an unattended install from a set of packages (ie not from the internet).
We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at http://qgis.org. See the note below from our project chair, and for a summary of changes and new features in this release.
Preface : A Message from the Project Steering Committee Chair
Welcome to Quantum GIS version 1.0. and version 1.0 of the QGIS Users Guide. This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and graphics designers.
Dear QGIS Users
Over the weekend I announced that we are putting out a second preview for QGIS 1.0.0. Various binaries are now available including for Windows, Mac OS X, Open Suse Linux (versions 10.2 and 11), Ubuntu Linux (versions 7.10,8.04,8.10) and Fedora (versions 8,9,10). You can download from here:
http://download.qgis.org
In case it isn't clear, please note that our terminology of 'preview' means 'not quite finished / a taster for what the final product is going to be like'. When the final QGIS 1.0.0 comes out the preview suffix will drop away.