10 years of OPENGIS.ch
2024 marked a monumental milestone for OPENGIS.ch: a decade of growth, success, and connection with all of you. Let’s take a look back at the highlights!
MAPPING 10 YEARS OF SUCCESS
A MEMORABLE GATHERING
Our 10th anniversary was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on our journey so far and to anticipate the exciting path ahead. To conclude our year of celebration, we hosted a truly memorable event at the end of January in Bern, with workshops and a fondue gathering that left us all inspired and connected. Good food, great company, and a shared vision for the next decade!
A special thank you to our clients for their insightful presentations, which added value and depth to the event. We are grateful for your collaboration and continued support!
Mehrjahresprogramm Natur und Landschaft (MJPNL)
by Odile Bruggisser, Kanton Solothurn | Amt für Raumplanung
Scale Electrification Of Decentralized Areas With connect2evolve
by Yohannes Ghermay, Siemens Energy | Co-founder #connect2evolve
Modelbaker
by Romedi Filli, Kanton Schaffhausen | Head of Geoinformation
THREE WORKSHOP
Our event featured three engaging workshops:
GEORAMA
The workshop brought together top experts in geodata infrastructure to dive into the platform’s capabilities and potential.
QFIELD
A glimpse of QField: its vision, where it will it go and what exciting features can future users look forward to.
QGIS PROCESSING
A mixed group of experienced QGIS users and developers got together to take a close look at the Graphical Modeler tool in QGIS.
OUR COMMITMENT TO OPEN-SOURCE
QField has officially hit 1 million downloads – thanks to you!
This milestone is the result of years of dedication, with over 50,000 hours invested by our team. Our GeoNinjas contributed stunning 14% of QGIS, while also driving open-source projects like ModelBaker and SwissLocator.
As a diamond sponsor of OSGeo and a large sustaining member of QGIS, we take pride in supporting and nurturing the growth of the open-source GIS ecosystem.
A huge thank you to our community. Here’s to the next chapter!
OUR COMMITMENT TO OPEN-SOURCE
We created the QGIS and QField Sustainability Initiative to guarantee the long-term stability of these open-source tools. For every support contract exceeding 10 days, we allocateadditional days to this initiative, and any unused hours at the end of the year are reinvested. This allows us to focus on critical but often overlooked tasks like bug fixing, code reviews, and core maintenance; work that keeps the software reliable and evolving.
Through this initiative, we provide monthly stability updates to address critical bugs and conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high-quality standards. We also make sure that QGIS’s core remains stable, up to date, and easy to manage. By dedicating resources to these efforts, we help sustain and improve QGIS and QField for the entire community.
On another note, we’ll be aT FOSSGIS 2025 starting tomorrow and we’re looking forward to seeing you there!