08-26, 12:00–12:30 (Europe/Rome), Auditorium
QGIS turned twenty this year. The first lines of code were written in mid-February of 2002 and the first time the code compiled and ran, it could do one thing:
Connect to a PostGIS database and draw a vector layer.
Quoting Gary Sherman - "The mythical man of QGIS that no one has ever met":
This was the humble beginning of one of the most popular open-source GIS applications. GRASS GIS is of course the granddaddy of open source GIS, but the 20th birthday of QGIS is a testament to its longevity and commitment of all those who have made it what it is today.
In this talk I'll share a walkthrough of the most game-changing features and events that shaped QGIS and its community in the past 20 years making it one of the top ten most important C++ open-source projects [1] and an overall amazing project to represent :)
Happy Birthday QGIS!
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenSSF-Criticality-Score
Marco Bernasocchi is an open-source advocate, entrepreneur and full-stack geoninja. He is the creator of QField, currently serves as QGIS.org Chair, and is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation board member. In his day job, Marco is the CEO of OPENGIS.ch, which he founded in 2011.
A geographer by trade, Marco lives in a small Romansh-speaking mountain village in Switzerland, where he loves scrambling around the mountains to enjoy the feeling of freedom it gives him. Outgoing, flexible and open-minded, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing: He not only knows how to say it but also loves sharing his know-how.