The user group meetings that have been held are informal affairs and not driven by or biased or made one-sided by commercial organisations. This has made them relaxed meetings where the topic of conversation can cover proprietary systems, other open-source products, practical how-to demonstrations, and user case studies on features within QGIS or the implementation of it. Although the backgrounds of the regional leads is in Local Government, the meetings are not biased towards this sector, increasingly meetings are seeing more academic bodies and private sector companies attending and contributing.
Our mission in starting the group was to create a community in the UK around QGIS and aim to grow that community through organised meetings, impromptu meet-ups and focused events like hack-days, workshops or code sprints. We want the group to be open, educational, fun and encourage transparency, inclusion and community in the spirit of FOSS. While the focus of the group is on QGIS we hope to build links with other groups including OSGeo, OpenStreetMap and the AGI and encourage users to get involved be it through interest in coding new features, integrating with other applications or producing a good looking map.
We all love our digital maps and are used to navigating them with our fingers and mice. But what about those who cannot use a keyboard or input device? How can they get a map to show them the information they desire?
An overview of QGIS Server combined with GeoNode, and a comparison of GeoNode and GeoServer
An overview of layer definition in QGIS
Short presentations and discussion on QGIS implementation, including migration pitfalls, GeoPackage, blockers, enterprise implementation.
A look at the OGC GeoPackage, now adopted as the QGIS default format. What are its capabilities, strengths and weaknesses, and should you be using it?
A forum to share thoughts on migrating to QGIS, including road map, blockers, enablers etc.
Lunch with demo and series of open workshop for to demo the use of QGIS.
A look at QGIS project and how to contribute to it
Come along with a topic you wish to share
Geodrinks at The Pheasant. Bath Road, Chippenham SN14 0AE Location
This is a free conference.
SCISYS Head Office
Methuen Park
Chippenham
SN140GB
Phone: 01249 466 466