OSGeo Code Sprint in Bonn

It’s been a great week in Bonn! I joined the other members of the QGIS project at the pre-FOSS4G code sprint at the Basecamp, the weirdest location we’ve had for a developer meeting so far. We used this opportunity to have a face-to-face meeting of the QGIS PSC  with special guests Matthias Kuhn (on QGIS 3.0 and bug tracker discussions) and Lene Fischer (on community team issues)  – notes here.

I also finally took the time to compile a blog post on the results of the QGIS user survey 2015.

The code sprint was also a great opportunity to present the results of Akbar Gumbira’s Google Summer of Code project: the QGIS Resource Sharing plugin. This plugin makes it possible to easily share resources (such as SVG icons, symbol definitions, QGIS styles, and Processing scripts) with other QGIS users through an interface that closely resembles the well-known QGIS Plugin Manager. Akbar has also prepared great presentation with background info and screencasts showcasing his project.

The plugin is now available in the Plugin Repository and we have created the official QGIS Resources repository on Github. If you have symbols or styles that you want to share with the community, please create a resource collection and send us a pull request to add it to the official list.

Thanks to all the organizers who worked hard to make this one of the most well-organized and enjoyable code sprints I’ve ever been to. You are awesome!