Table of Contents
- QGIS Open Day (2025-09-26)
- Programme overview:
- Presentations
- Topic: Offline navigable rural "addresses" for a community for emergency services
- Topic: Ask the PSC Everything You Need to Know About QGIS User Groups
- Topic: Styling OSM Data in QGIS using OSMAnd Resources
- Adding more events
- QGIS Open Day Promotion Materials
- Recordings
- Code of Conduct
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QGIS Open Day (2025-09-26)
Welcome to the September 2025 QOD sessions.
Simply watch the YouTube Livestream and comment on the day, or catch the recording if you can't make the live session.
To keep up to date with QGIS Open Day events, please join the Telegram channel or our Revolt channel.
Programme overview:
Virtual events will be taking place online (see links below) and in the links shared in the telegram group, all events are live-streamed on YouTube. See the individual event descriptions below for an indication of where to join each event.
QGISOpenDay 26 September 2025
| No | Title | Time | Speaker | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Offline navigable rural "addresses" for a community for emergency services. | 10H00 UTC | Sarien Lategan | South Africa | ENG |
| 2 | Ask the PSC Everything You Need to Know About QGIS User Groups | 11H00 UTC | Marco Bernasocchi, Tim Sutton, Hans van der Kwast (moderator) | Global | ENG |
| 3 | Styling OSM Data in QGIS using OSMAnd Resources | 12H00 UTC | Lova Andriarimalala | Global | ENG |
| No | Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Amy via the Telegram Channel username @Amz |
| 2 | Seabilwe | Social Media | Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe |
| 3 | Victoria | Support | Contact Victoria via Telegram Channel username @Victoria Neema |
Presentations
Topic: Offline navigable rural "addresses" for a community for emergency services
Time: 26 September 2025 10H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Sarien Lategan
Description:
Compile member address number based on members location. Create an offline navigable "layer" to be used by local emergency services on mobile devices.
Topic: Ask the PSC Everything You Need to Know About QGIS User Groups
Time: 26 September 2025 11H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Marco Bernasocchi, Tim Sutton. Moderator: Hans van der Kwast
Description:
Curious about how to start a QGIS User Group in your country or strengthen an existing one? Join this interactive session where QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) chair Marco Bernasocchi and honorary member Tim Sutton will answer your questions and share practical guidance. Learn about the minimum requirements, how to get started, what activities to consider, and how the PSC can support your efforts.
We also invite (board) members from established user groups to share their experiences, challenges, and success stories. Whether you're just exploring the idea or already building a community, this session is your chance to connect, learn, and grow the QGIS community together.
Topic: Styling OSM Data in QGIS using OSMAnd Resources
Time: 26 September 2025 12H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Lova Andriarimalala
Description:
This presentation demonstrates how to translate OSMAnd’s style resources into QGIS XML styles, import them into QGIS, and apply them to vector layers. We will focus on reusing OSMAnd’s icons and road styles to recreate its familiar look in QGIS. Finally, the workflow for sharing these styles on the QGIS Resource Hub will be presented, making them accessible to the wider community.
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 help us by spreading 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 September 2025 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 the principle of self-organisation and community participation.
Programme
- Session 1: Offline navigable rural "addresses" for a community for emergency services, YouTube Link, Jitsi link
- Session 2: QGIS User Groups, YouTube Link, Jitsi link
- Session 3: Styling OSM Data in QGIS using OSMAnd Resources, YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Where to watch
Please see the event wiki page at QOD-September-2025 Wiki for all the details of times and links for participation.
Recordings
All the events are recorded and made available to users who couldn't make the live events. Youtube live streams are automatically available for catch-up viewing. Reviewing video links for individual events should work without a hitch, but you can also catch up on recordings from the QGIS Youtube channel:
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 the Lead QOD Event Organiser, Amy by email amyburnessenviro@gmail.com, or via the Telegram Channel username @Amz if you have any queries or need help setting up events.
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