This month QGIS Open Day is dedicated to Anything Awesome in QGIS.

Simply watch the Youtube Livestream and comment on the day, or catch the recording if you can't make the live session.

To keep up to date with QGIS Open Day events, please join the Telegram channel.

Virtual events will be taking place online (see links below) and in the links shared in the telegram group, all events are live-streamed on YouTube. See the individual event descriptions below for an indication of where to join each event.

QGISOpenDay 27 August 2021

Time: 27 August 2021 11h00 UTC.

Duration: ~30 mins

Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link

Presenter: Leonardo Nazareth

Description: The lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation is one of the biggest problems the world has to face, especially when it comes to developing nations, it is estimated that:

• 2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services.
• 3.6 billion people (almost half of the global population) lack safely managed sanitation services.

The Open-Source philosophy can be very supportive, encouraging access to information or developing free and open access technologies, which I believe is the best way to train qualified professionals to face the problem. With that in mind, I joined my two passions, QGIS and sanitation, and I've been helping to develop a plugin called saniBID RedBasica that helps in the design and dimensioning of sewage collection networks and works for both Conventional and Condominial methodology, but which has exclusive tools for design condominium systems.

Time: 27 August 2021 12h00 UTC.

Duration: ~1 hr

Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link

Presenter: Victoria Neema and Tim Sutton

Description: This presentation will cover how to create a 3D model to use as a 3D symbol in QGIS using ODM. It will include:

• How to generate a 3D model of an object from a cellphone video using ODM.
• How to editing the 3D model using Blender.
• How to add the 3D model as a 3D symbol in QGIS.

To follow along please clone this repository onto your local machine.

Time: 27 August 2021 14h00 UTC.

Duration: ~1 hr

Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link

Presenter: Tim Sutton and You!

Description: This is going to be something a little different:

• We are going to make a randomly generated DEM at the start of the session
• The DEM will be shared on GitHub
• You can follow along by downloading the DEM
• What follows will be a freestyle session where I take the DEM and see how interesting a map I can make with it using only the DEM, datasets derived from it, or new data captured locally during the session.
• You can follow along trying to replicate what I do or use your imagination to make your own fantasy map
• At the end of the session share screenshots of work, and if possible the project and we will give a QGIS mug to the winner!

You can create your own procedurally generated DEM using this module (python 3) or this module (python 2) using a command like this:

python3 dem_generator.py --width 2000 --height 2000 --waterratio 0.3 --island --preset mountainous_island dem.tif

To share your entries, and for more info, see the Freestyle Page!

Time: 27 August 2021

Duration:

Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link

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You can do this too! We really encourage others to follow our initiative, using the wiki page link below to organise your plans (just add a section below the last one). You can host virtual meetups in the Jitsi room, plan your next steps to take QGIS further down the road to world domination and much much more. We encourage language and region-specific huddles, documentation improvement sessions, bug fixing, making beautiful maps, and working together to do amazing things with QGIS.

We would really love to see more events offered from our country user groups and broader user base. The content can be at any skill level and in any language you like, and the times can overlap if needed. So please feel free to organise your activities on this wiki page. The QGIS Open Day is also an ideal time to hold virtual country user group meet-ups - please share your activities on the open day schedule, so that even people from outside of your country user group can benefit from your presentations. Contact me (see below) if you need help adding your events to the wiki page.

You can spread the word! We have prepared the following materials so that you may easily copy and paste the relevant contents to publish on your media platform of choice to let others know about these awesome events.

About QGIS Open Day

Dear QGIS Users

On Friday, 27th August 2021 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the event is organised on the principle of self-organisation and community participation.

Programme

• saniBID RedBasica - plugin to assist in sewage collection networks projects with Leonardo Nazareth
• Creating 3D Models for QGIS using ODM with Victoria Neema and Tim Sutton
• Freestyling with QGIS with Tim Sutton

Where to watch

Please see the event wiki page at QOD-August-2021 Wiki for all the details of times and links for participation.

All the events are recorded and made available to users who couldn't make the live events. Youtube live streams are automatically available for catch-up viewing. Be sure to check back here for updates!

• Event:Youtube channel Link

Participants are kindly reminded to please read and observe our QGIS Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement to make these events a great experience for everyone!

• Code of Conduct
• Diversity Statement

Please contact me, Zinziswa Xakayi by email [email protected] or via the Telegram Channel username @zinzixakayi if you have any queries or need help setting up events.

We look forward to seeing you there!