6. QGIS Developer Meeting in Zurich 2011¶
Period and location¶
Autumn 2011, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dates¶
Thursday -> Monday
(10)-11-12-13-(14) November 2011
Duration:
- Thursday is day of arrival
- Friday to Sunday full day
- Monday is day of departure
Of course you are invited to join or leave the meeting whenever you want.
Venue¶
Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich http://www.karto.ethz.ch/about/howtofind/index_EN
Step by step instruction how to get from airport and main railway station to the Institute of Cartography http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/qgis_wms/travel_info_ETHZ.pdf
Meeting Room: HIL G22 (reserved on 11th, 12th and 13th of November)
Program¶
Thursday, 10th of November 2011¶
Day of arrival
The meeting room is not available on Thursday. Meeting point during the day is
the Alumni lounge (No.13,HIL)
http://www.gastro.ethz.ch/locations/hberg/alumni_lounge/index_EN
Optional participation on Thursday, 10th of November at 16:30, room HIL D53, ETH Zurich at the presentation of Tim Sutton entitled
"Quantum GIS - Realising a dream of a free,user friendly GIS for everyone".
Friday, 11th of November 2011¶
Venue: HIL G21 between 9:00 - 12:00
9:00 - 9:30 Arrival of participants (IMPORTANT - venue: HIL G21)
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome of participants (by Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hurni,
director of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH
Zurich)
10:00 - 12:00 Organizational Issues, Developer Meeting (HIL G21)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch in the Cheminsula Campus Restaurant (sponsored by
the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation)
13:00 - 21:00 Developer Meeting (HIL G22)
Saturday, 12th of November 2011¶
9:00 - 21:00 full day Developer Meeting (HIL G22)
Sunday, 13th of November 2011¶
9:00 - 10:00 Sightseeing in the city
9:00 - 21:00 full day Developer Meeting (HIL G22)
Accomodation¶
- Youth hostel Zurich (46 - 113 CHF). 45 min by tram and bus to the meeting. http://www.youthhostel.ch/en/hostels/zurich
- Hotel Krone Limmatquai. Claims to be the cheapest hotel in town center. Rooms for 66 CHF. 30 minutes by tram and bus to the meeting http://www.hotel-krone-limmatquai.ch/zimmer.html
- Hotel Kronenhof (CHF 105). 10 minutes by bus to the meeting (or footwalk). http://www.hotel-kronenhof.ch/
- Private, at Andreas Neumann (3 persons, free) - but you will need to pay public transport fee, approx. 50 minutes to ride on train/bus.
- Private, at Mathias Walker (1 person). 5 minutes by bus to the meeting location.
- Search other accomodation http://www.zuerich.com/en/Visitor/accommodation.html
Dining (Evenings)¶
- Thursday, 18:45, Desperado in Zürich Höngg, mexican cuisine
- Friday, 19:30, Maharani, indian buffet
- Saturday, 21:00, Restaurant Uto Staffel, swiss/middle european, bus leaves at 19:52
- Sunday, 19:30, Pippone, italian/swiss cuisine
Transportation¶
- public transportation is efficient in Zurich and recommended - parking lots are limited and expensive, and there are many one way streets in the city center - be warned!
- for transportation within Zurich (if your hotel/accommodation is not in walking distance) we recommend the 24 hour day passes. If you use them intelligently, you can use it in the morning, evening and next morning (if you arrive earlier the next day) - see day pass - they should cost CHF 8.20 per 24 hours - you need to buy a day pass for 1-2 zones (or Stadtnetz/city of Zurich)
- people staying outside of Zurich can buy zone upgrades which are valid in combination with the regular 24h day pass
- if you arrive from the airport and want to travel to Zurich you can either buy a 3-zone ticket (CHF 6.50, valid 1.5h) or, if buy a 24h ticket for Zurich (CHF 8.20) in combination with a 1-2 zone upgrade ticket (CHF 4.10)
- please do not ride without a valid ticket - it costs approx. 100 CHF if you get caught, plus the hazzles ...
Topics¶
- The road to QGIS 2.0
- Overhauling the GUI for version 2.0 - Version2GuiRevision
- Multicore Rendering
- Potential of OpenCL
- Geometry enhancements: circular arcs and splines
- Documentation sprint
- QGIS Server news and demo QGISWebClientIdeas
- Certification
- Requests from Swiss QGIS sponsors:
- Multiple Maps with Live-Link in the Print Composer
- Multiple Map Windows
- Rule-based labelling - RuleBasedLabelingIdeas
- Support multiple geometry columns in different scale ranges
- QGIS infrastructure:
- Migrating Wiki to hub.qgis.org
- Redmine improvements (http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-redmine/issues)
- SSL cert for hub.qgis.org
- Plugin infrastructure
- Styles and icons repo
- Users Feedback
Participation¶
| *#* | Participant | Country | Arrival | Departure | Accomodation | Notes | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Marco Hugentobler | Switzerland | 10.11. | 14.11. | Geometry redesign, integration ellipse symbollayer / simple marker | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Andreas Neumann | Switzerland | 10.11. | 14.11. | QGIS Webclient, forms, documentation | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Paolo Cavallini | Italy | 10.11. | 14.11. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Werner Macho | Austria | 10.11. | 14.11. | private | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Marco Bernasocchi | Switzerland | 11.11. | 14.11. | Private | Android | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Pirmin Kalberer | Switzerland | 10.11. | 14.11. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Mathias Walker | Switzerland | 10.11. | 14.11. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Alessandro Pasotti | Italy | 10.11. | 14.11. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Horst Düster | Switzerland | 11.11. | 13.11. | staying at Mathias | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Jürgen Fischer | Germany | 10.11. 15:35 | 14.11. 16:30 | Kronenhof | Forms, OSGeo4W | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Tim 'timlinux' Sutton | South Africa | TBC (to be confirmed) | TBC | Staying at Marco | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Yves Jacolin | France | 10.11 (17h00 Zurich) | 14.11 (8h30 from Zurich) | kronenhof Hotel | French Documentation | ||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Cédric Möri | Switzerland | 10.11 ~21:00 | 13.11 | Hotel Kronenhof | |
14 | Roger Maurer | Switzerland | 11.11 | 12.11 | Documentation | ||||||||||
| 15 | Anita Graser | Austria | 11.11 16:45 Zürich Intl. | 13.11 20:35 Zürich Intl. | private | |
16 | Marko Järvenpää | Austria | 11.11 | 13.11 | private | |
17 | Otto Dassau | Germany | 12.11 ~15:00 | 13.11 ~14:30 | Hotel Kronenhof | Project Plattform / Documentation / Migrate docs to Git | ||
| 18 | Radim Blazek | Bohemia | 10.11. 16:44 Hbf | 14.11. 7:16 Hbf | Hotel Krone | Vector rendering optimization, GRASS modules versions support, QgsDataSourceURI generalization for WMS drag-and-drop | ||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Richard Duivenvoorde | The Netherlands | 10.11 11:00 arrival airport Zurich | 14.11 19:25 leaving airport Zurich | Staying at Andreas | Python plugins/infrastructure/svg | ||||||||||||||||
| 20 | Giuseppe Sucameli | Italy | 10.11 16:00 Zürich Airport | 14.11 12:50 Zürich Airport | Staying at Andreas | |||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Sandro (strk) Santilli | Italy | 10.11 - 15:50 Zürich Airport | 14.11 - 12:30 Zürich Airport | Staying at Marco | QA, Topological editing | ||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Giovanni Manghi | Portugal/Italy | 10.11 | 14.11 | Staying at Marco | Trac cleaning, Users feedback | ||||||||||||||||
| 23 | Peter Welss | UK | 10.11 - 20:55 | - | Open for suggestions/unkown | Things I feel I should work on: Attribute table performance with large PostGIS layers. Things I want to work on: Rendering performance issues / profiling | ||||||||||||||||
| 24 | Stefan Keller | Switzerland | 13.11 ~15:00 | 13.11 tbd. | - | Courses, Documentation, Debugging Python Plugins |