QGIS US User Group

Sep 24, 2024 | QGIS

I’ve been too busy to write anything as of late. I have a lot to talk about – just not much time to do it.

So FOSS4GNA happened on Sept 9-11 2024. Probably the biggest thing for me during the conference was we had two BOFs on QGIS. Granted – I think it was supposed to be one but an unnamed person shouldn’t be shamed for not correcting for Central Time. I can’t even remember which BOF I grabbed this from

Not a large group – but a passionate group. We had a lot of conversation and basically here are how things are hopefully about to go:

  • Website Folk to revamp the QGIS-us.org website. I’ve temporarily stood up wordpress because that was the easiest.
  • Start finding other groups if there are any. The United States is a big place but we have the internet and a website we can modify. I get a lot of questions on who is running QGIS these days – I don’t know but I know a lot are.
  • Put people in Universities in touch with each other.
  • Stand up Monthly Meetings to get people to talk.
  • Move the QGIS users list to discourse. There’s been a significant amount of chatter on the OSGEO listserves and this stands a chance to “modernize” the listserve without going full Slack.

The end result: Maybe by FOSS4GNA 2025 we are a significant part of the conference. At worse we’re facilitating small meetings around the US. Either way, we become more exciting.

Anyway – Fun Stuff. Good Stuff. Lets get active.

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