.. image:: _images/qgistorg_logo.svg :alt: the QGIST project - QGIST.org :align: left | .. rst-class:: center `GITHUB PROJECT`_ .. rst-class:: center `@s-m-e`_ / `@Akhuna`_ / `@f-prinz`_ .. _GITHUB PROJECT: https://github.com/qgist .. _@s-m-e: https://github.com/s-m-e .. _@Akhuna: https://github.com/Akhuna .. _@f-prinz: https://github.com/f-prinz | QGIST at FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest ================================= We will present the project and recent developments at **FOSS4G**! Meet us there. **Friday, 2019-08-30, 12:00 EEST (09:00 UTC), Fortuna Est** *Enhancing & re-designing the QGIS user interface - a deep dive* (Sebastian Ernst, Maria Müller) | User-friendly Open Source Geoinformation Software ================================================= **Open Source Geographic Information Systems (GIS)** can be pretty, user-friendly and driven by Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). The QGIST project sets out to significantly **improve and enrich the user experience** of THE modern-day open source GIS application: `QGIS`_. .. _QGIS: https://www.qgis.org *QGIS* (formerly known as *Quantum GIS*) is one of the largest open source projects in the area of GIS. `Since 2002`_, it has evolved many fold and has become a powerful multi-domain tool. *QGIS* covers, but is not limited to, various fields ranging from geomorphology to cadaster mapping as well as data visualization in 2D, 2.5D and 3D. .. _Since 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS While its **impressive analysis libraries** have become a **mature infrastructure**, its GUI remains dependent on a **command-line workflow**. Its use requires programming skills. Now, as the *QGIS* community is attracting more and more end-users rather than just users with development background, we decided to gradually reinvent the *QGIS* interface, enabling a much wider audience to benefit from open source GIS. We focus on a **plugin-based approach**, allowing interested *QGIS* users to review our concepts and ideas - without interfering with the original *QGIS* codebase. We are publishing a **series of functional plugins and themes**, gradually building on top of one another. Ultimately, *QGIS* will offer a true enterprise GUI experience. | About *QGIST.org* ================= We, the QGIST project, are an informal **free collective of independent professionals** with various scientific and engineering backgrounds and a strong interest in open-source GIS software - including QGIS, of cause. We want to bring the *gist* of *QGIS* to its users, hence *QGIST*. It is our mission to apply our broad, interdisciplinary **domain knowledge** to open source software. By supporting their communities, we want to give back to them what they enabled us to do in the first place - becoming the professionals that we are now. Our software will remain **open source under permissive licenses** forever. All source code will be made available in our `Github profile`_. .. _Github profile: https://github.com/qgist For those who need it, commercial support will become available from members of the collective through the project's **commercial support** platform, `QGIST.de`_/`QGIST.com`_. .. _QGIST.de: https://www.qgist.de .. _QGIST.com: https://www.qgist.com You can contact us by e-mail at info@qgist.org. | Imprint ======= The QGIST project is an initiative of `pleiszenburg.de - Independent Scientific Services`_. .. _pleiszenburg.de - Independent Scientific Services: http://www.pleiszenburg.de +-----------+-------------------------------+ | Address + | Sebastian M. 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