A quick overview of the growth of QGIS, new features, and basic intro on how people contribute to QGIS.

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

17. What about support?

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

24. Data defined symbols

25. Thanks