A great conference begins, with about 400 people attending presentations and workshops over three days.

  • Tuesday, 2012-03-20 14:42: Changeset c27c89045c: “Add WFS support for QGIS server. Provided by René-Luc D’Hont”

Wow.

  • Tuesday, 2012-03-20 14.48: QGIS 1.7.4 uploaded to DebianGIS

Ok, QGIS 1.7.4 is already a few weeks old. But current version on Debian is 1.4.0! This will be a long “new features” list for Debian users. Thanks for your work, Francesco!

GPS support, right click gesture, pinch zooming and offline editing plugin working. Just a few tickets are left for uploading it to Android market. Hopefully we find another great student for this years follow-up GSoC project!

  • Wednesday, 2012-03-21 16.05: Victor Olaya, author of SEXTANTE, announces his work on a QGIS processing framework with toolbox, graphical modeler, batch processing interface, etc.

Wow!!

  • Wednesday, 2012-03-21 18.30: QGIS and GRASS user meeting at FOSSGIS

Explaining whats going on in the QGIS code and the QGIS community. Live demonstration of raster resampling branch.

  • Wednesday, 2012-03-21 20.18: Tim announces QGIS 1.8 RC1 for April 9th.

Test it before the hackfest in Lyon!

  • Thursday, 2012-03-22 08:00: Bad news - three days in a row without any commit from jef!

What happened? Jürgen forgot to bring his power adapter to Dessau :-(

  • Thursday, 2012-03-22 13:30: FOSSGIS is over

with well attended QGIS presentations and workshops.

Jürgen is back home again. Phew!

  • Friday, 2012-03-23 10:26: Changeset 585e58179d: Nathan Woodrow merges native MS SQL provider, written by Tamas Szekeres, into master.

Good news for MS SQL users, but also for Tim: “Finally a way to stop having to use PostGIS all the time…”

What a week for QGIS! Looking forward to more news from the QGIS Hackfest in Lyon.