The Quantum GIS project was holding its third QGIS Developer Meeting in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy from 18th to 22th March 2010 and we would like to thank Paolo Cavallini and the Gruppo Utenti Linux Pisa, who organised the event, made sure that everything ran smoothly and provided us with delicious italian food and drinks.

After the two Hackfests in Hanover and Vienna and because of the very great success it was decided to hold a third Hackfest as soon as possible. So the QGIS Developer / Translator / and User met at the Parco Naturale di San Rossore. The park generously allowed us to use its facilities and also provided cheap accomodation.

Participants

More fotos

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http://www.gaia-gis.it/hackfest-pisa/index.html

Sponsors

• We would like to thank all Donors and Sponsors for their financial donations.
• The hackfest was co-sponsored by GFOSS.it, who added an Euro for each Euro of donations, and manages all the expenses without overhead.
• The Parco Naturale di San Rossore generously allowed us to use its facilities.
• The GULP, Gruppo Utenti Linux Pisa helped organising the event.
• The FOSSGIS e.V. sponsored 500 Euro

The work in detail

Besides the usual activities such as troubleshooting, translation and testing time there were again a lot of new added features as well as presentations and discussions about developement strategies. The list below is not complete for sure but provides an overview. Please have a look at the bugtracker to find out what else happend within the 4 days

• Point displacement renderer added as core plugin with better architecture and changed dialog.

• Composer legend now works with new symbology-ng.

• Started work on "spatialite manager" plugin derived from the "postgres manager" basecode.

• Preparing new QGIS packages for Debian Stable (Lenny) and Debian Testing (Squeeze).

• Added WMS-C support to WMS provider, support for WMS-C tilesets, several WMS selection improvements.

• Improved SOS-Plugin and extended provider to work with 52north version.

• Improvements to Google Maps Plugin.

• Testing QGIS functionalities, revisions of context help files.

• Allow adding parts to multi points and lines

• Fixed lots of bugs (> 50) - see bugtracker

• Added several improvements and fixes to the GRASS Plugin. Tested new GRASS-GDAL provider. Discussed further improvements. Released GRASS 6.4RC6 and created binary packages.

• Updated and released qgis 1.4 manual and coding and compilation guide. Added categories to the qgis wiki.

• Applied QGIS GUI translation updates for several languages, especially finnish language. Cleaned up old GUI translation files.

• Added finnish QGIS article to Wikipedia.

• New OGR2Layers plugin.

• ... had lots of fun :)