QGIS - How does it work?
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A quick overview of the growth of QGIS, new features, and basic intro on how people contribute to QGIS.
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QGIS - How does it work?
- 1. How does it work? QGIS – The Open Source Model Nathan Woodrow nathanw.net Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist at Digital Mapping Solutions QGIS Core developer
- 2. How are we going? Quick QGIS growth overview
- 3. Commits All Time 12 Month 30 Day Commits: 18,486 4,461 546 Files Modified: 19,983 10,749 3,823 Lines Added: 4,592,516 1,695,883 116,838 Lines Removed: 2,455,957 915,023 107,611
- 4. Contributors All Time 12 Month 30 Day Contributors: 131 93 38
- 5. Contributing
- 6. It’s NOT
- 7. But also NOT
- 8. Main Repo Core developers Non Core developers Pull Request Review & Merge
- 9. Community Mailing lists gis.stackexchange.com IRC User groups •OZ QGIS User Group •UK User Group •Swiss User Group Facebook Twitter Google+
- 10. All good but who pays for this stuff?
- 11. Donations And lots of Volunteers Sponsorship and more Government GrantsPrivate developers and heaps more
- 12. but who is using it?
- 13. Everyone! Ok not everyone. But lots of people.
- 14. Australian Local government http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html Other case stories City of Belmont - WA Tree Canopy
- 15. Projects at SDRC Kerb mapping GPS photo processing Planning Maps Flood damage maps http://nathanw.net/2012/04/23/using-qgis-in-local-government/ Australian Local government http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html Other case stories
- 16. Around the world • InaSAFE • Funded by AusAID and World Bank • http://inasafe.org/ • State of Vorarlberg, Austria • 400 desktop installs • Contributed Oracle support, plus $50,000 worth of development work • Windsor & Maidenhead council UK • 60 QGIS installs • Simon started UK QGIS user group
- 18. Heaps to pick from http://www.qgis.org/en/commercial-support.html
- 19. Or use the community Mailing lists gis.stackexchange.com IRC User groups •OZ QGIS User Group •UK User Group •Swiss User Group Facebook Twitter Google+
- 20. Some new stuff a very short list
- 21. Blend modes
- 22. Symbol Manager
- 23. Map book generation Snap and guide lines
- 25. Thanks