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QGIS Open Day

If you would like to discuss topics on our QGISOpenDay, please add sections below for each discussion along with proposed time and agenda.

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

Programme overview:

Virtual events will be taking place on online (see links below) and in the telegram chat room, and with many events also being live-streamed on YouTube. See the individual event descriptions below for an indication of where to join each event.

QGISOpenDay 26th February 2021

No Name Time Coordinator Language
1 QGIS for dummies, our experience as Kartoza Interns 08h00 UTC Kartoza interns, Kartoza interns English
2 From QGIS newcomer to QGIS documenter 09h30 UTC Rosa Aguilar, Kartoza interns English
3 Open Education for QGIS 10h00 UTC Hans van der Kwast, Kartoza interns English
4 Working with Vector Tiles in QGIS 11h00 UTC Azile Mdleleni, Kartoza interns English
5 From Hackathon to QGIS Plugin 12h30 UTC Natalia Cárdenas Niño, Kartoza interns English

Organisers

No Name Role Contact
1 Riley and Amy Session planning and speaker coordination Contact Amy via the Telegram Channel username @Amz
2 Zinzi and Christopher Publishing platform and workflows link
3 Nicholas Event promotion - via mailing lists Contact Nicholas via the Telegram Channel username @Nicholas
4 Seabilwe Social Media Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe

Presentations

QGIS for dummies, our experiences with QGIS as Kartoza Interns

Time: 26 February 2021 TBD.

Duration: 1 hour

Venue: <Live Stream/ Jitsi Room>

Presenter: Kartoza interns

Host: Kartoza interns

From QGIS newcomer to QGIS documenter

Time: 26 February 2021 09h30 UTC.

Duration: 30 minutes

Venue: <Live Stream/ Jitsi Room>

Presenter: Rosa Aguilar

Host: Kartoza interns

Rosa Aguilar will talk about her journey from newcomer, translator, and later documenter. She will also share the fantastic experience of belonging to the vibrant QGIS community.

Open Education for QGIS

Time: 26 February 2021 10h00 UTC.

Duration: 1 hour

Venue:

Presenter: Hans van der Kwast

Host: Kartoza interns

Do you want to learn QGIS, but you don't know where to start? In a previous session, you've already learned about the QGIS documentation. In this session, we'll dive into available open educational resources (OER) for learning QGIS, such as websites and platforms with free tutorials and open courses. We'll also give an overview of useful YouTube channels worth subscribing to if you want to learn more about QGIS.

Working with Vector Tile in QGIS

Time: 26 February 2021 11H00 UTC

Duration: 1 hour

Venue: <Live Stream/ Jitsi Room>

Presenter: Azile Mdleleni

Host: Kartoza interns

From Hackathon to QGIS Plugin

Time: 26 February 2021 12h30 UTC.

Duration: 1 hour

Venue:

Presenter: Natalia Cárdenas Niño

Host: Kartoza interns

A panel discussion with the amazing team members that took an idea formed in a QGIS Hackathon and created a plug-in.

Adding more events

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.

QGIS Open Day Promotion Materials

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, 26 February 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 a principle of self-organisation and community participation.

Programme

  • QGIS PLUGGED IN (the open day for young mappers and newcomers )

Where to watch

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

Recordings

Many of the events may be recorded and made available to users who couldn't make the live events. Youtube live streams should automatically be available for catchup viewing. Be sure to check back here for updates!

  • Event:

Code of Conduct

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 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!

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