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QOD July 2026
Welcome to the July 2026 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.
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 31 July 2026
| No | Title | Time | Speaker | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What happened in QGIS this month? | 09H00 UTC | Selma Vidimlic Husic, Hefni Azzahra | BIH, INA | EN |
| 2 | Laser Scans to Digital Twins: What Can QGIS Learn? | 10H00 UTC | Fanus van der Westhuizen | SA | EN |
| 3 | FOSS4G Europe Recap + QGIS Trainer Certification Guide with Hans & Kurt | 11H00 UTC | Hans van der Kwast, Kurt Menke | NL, DK | EN |
| 4 | Kolba plugin by Pavel Pereverzev | 12H00 UTC | Pavel Pereverzev | RU | EN |
| No | Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selma | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Selma via the Telegram Channel username @selmavh |
| 2 | Hefni | Support and social media | Contact Hefni via the Telegram Channel username @hefni_17 |
| 3 | Seabilwe | Social Media | Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe |
| 4 | Victoria | Support | Contact Victoria via Telegram Channel username @Victoria Neema |
Time: 31 July 2026 09H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Selma Vidimlic Husic, Hefni Azzahra
Description: A monthly segment of the QGIS Open Day dedicated to keeping the community informed and up to date. Each session covers the latest happenings across the QGIS ecosystem, including recent releases with changelogs and notable fixes, active grant proposals, and upcoming or past conference updates. We'll also walk through the QGIS news feed, download statistics, usage analytics from analytics.qgis.org, and Hetzner bandwidth data to give a transparent view of project health and growth. On the documentation and web side, we'll highlight updates to the docs, website changes, and the current LTR status. QEPs (QGIS Enhancement Proposals) under discussion will be summarized, along with notable threads from the mailing lists and minutes from PSC meetings. Rounding out each session are translation updates and open floor time for general community discussion. Not every topic will be covered every month, the agenda adapts to what's active and relevant, but this is our go-to monthly pulse check on everything QGIS.
Time: 31 July 2026 10H00 UTC
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters:
Fanus van der Westhuizen
Description: This month's QGIS Open Day welcomes guest presenter Dr Fanus van der Westhuizen of Industrial Digital Twin. Unlike our usual GIS-focused speakers, Dr van der Westhuizen comes from outside the GIS world — his company specializes in indoor digital twins, capturing facilities on-site with specialized laser scanning, then converting that scan data directly into lightweight 3D models, without the need for expensive CAD modelling.
We're inviting him to share what this technology is, how it works, and what it can do, and to explore together, as a community, whether and how this kind of data could be relevant to QGIS.
Time: 31 July 2026 11H00 UTC
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters:
Hans van der Kwast, Kurt Menke
Description: In this session, Hans and Kurt will tell us about FOSS4G Europe, which was held June 29 – July 3 in Timișoara, Romania, sharing their experience, the talks and workshops they attended, and what stood out from the conference. They will also walk us through the QGIS Certification Programme, explaining what it takes to become a certified training organisation, what counts as a valid contribution to the QGIS community, and how the application and review process works.
Time: 31 July 2026 12H00 UTC
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters:
Pavel Pereverzev
Description: This session introduces Kolba, a plugin that offers an alternative approach to distributing QGIS plugins within teams and organisations. Instead of packaging and manually updating plugins, Kolba keeps them as raw Python scripts in a shared folder always launching the most up-to-date version automatically. This means developers save time maintaining and pushing updates, while users never have to worry about running outdated tools. Originally built as an internal corporate solution, Kolba was later released as a public plugin and has since helped QGIS users and developers who work in team or company settings manage their tools more efficiently.
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.
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, 31 July 2026 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: What happened in QGIS this month?
- Session 2: Laser Scans to Digital Twins: What Can QGIS Learn?
- Session 3: FOSS4G Europe Recap + QGIS Trainer Certification Guide with Hans & Kurt
- Session 4: Kolba plugin by Pavel Pereverzev
Where to watch
Please see the event wiki page at QOD-July-2026 Wiki for all the details of times and links for participation.
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:
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, Selma by email selma@kartoza.com, or via the Telegram Channel username @selmavh if you have any queries or need help setting up events.
