QOD August 2023 - qgis/QGIS GitHub Wiki
Welcome to the August 2023 QOD sessions.
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 or our Revolt 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 25 August 2023
| No | Title | Time | Speaker | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solving complex spatial analysis problems with QGIS | 09H30 UTC | Ujaval Gandhi | India | English |
| 2 | Soar Plugin for QGIS | 13H00 UTC | Sérgio Volkmer, Amir Farhand, Harry Stranger, Emma Hain | Australia | English |
| No | Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Amy via the Telegram Channel username @Amz |
| 2 | Seabilwe | Social Media | Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe |
| 3 | Victoria | Support | Contact Victoria via Telegram Channel username @Victoria Neema |
| 4 | Luna | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Luna via Telegram Channel username @Luna Asefaw |
Time: 25 August 2023 09h30 UTC.
Duration: ~60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Ujaval Gandhi, Spatial Thoughts
Description: Over the past few years, I have been creating and sharing fun spatial analysis problems using the hashtag #SpatialAnalysisChallenge on Twitter and LinkedIn. These challenges draw inspiration from real-world issues and serve as a means for the geospatial community to enhance their skills collaboratively. In this presentation, I will showcase some of the previous challenges and dive into the solutions that participants contributed using QGIS. Throughout the presentation, we will explore the diverse functionalities of QGIS - including Expressions, Geometry Generators, Processing Algorithms, PyQGIS, and more - showing how capable and versatile QGIS really is. Furthermore, I am excited to unveil a brand new #SpatialAnalysisChallenge tailored for the QGIS community during the talk!
Time: 25 August 2023 13h00 UTC.
Duration: ~60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Sérgio Volkmer, Amir Farhand, Harry Stranger, Emma Hain
Description: Founded in 2020, Soar (https://soar.earth) is on a mission to build the world's new atlas using crowd and organisation sourced maps. Soar's open and free platform aims to bring together every map, satellite and drone image. This groundbreaking endeavor marks a pivotal moment in the mapping industry, reminiscent of the transformative impact Google Earth had in 2005. Working towards this goal, Soar is focused on making sure that access into its world atlas is both inclusive and collaborative, what better way to showcase this by teaming up with North Road to develop our very first QGIS plugin 🙌 . The Soar QGIS plugin allows the entire open-source GIS community to upload, and import the hundreds of thousands of maps directly from QGIS, and as a result, driving further sharing of unique, hard to access content to a global audience.
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 help us by spreading 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, 25th August 2023 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
- Session 1: SpatialAnalysisChallenge - Solving complex spatial analysis problems with QGIS, YouTube Link, Jitsi link
- Session 2: Soar Plugin for QGIS, YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Where to watch
Please see the event wiki page at QOD-August-2023 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. Reviewing video links for individual events should work without a hitch, but you can also catch up on recordings from the QGIS Youtube channel:
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!
Please contact the Lead QOD Event Organiser, Amy by email [email protected], or via the Telegram Channel username @Amz if you have any queries or need help setting up events.