­OPENGIS.ch March’s Newsletter – Celebrating 10 years of success! 🎉 – OPENGIS.ch

March 25, 2025 3 min read

OPENGIS.ch 10-year anniversary logo 🎉 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

Timeline graphic of 10 years of OPENGIS.ch milestones

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) – Odile Bruggisser, Kanton Solothurn | Amt für Raumplanung

  • Scale Electrification Of Decentralized Areas With****connect2evolve – Yohannes Ghermay, Siemens Energy | Co-founder #connect2evolve

  • Model baker – Romedi Filli, Kanton Schaffhausen | Head of Geoinformation

Participants at the OPENGIS.ch anniversary event Client presentation at the OPENGIS.ch anniversary event Workshop session at the OPENGIS.ch anniversary event Fondue gathering at the OPENGIS.ch anniversary event Group photo from the OPENGIS.ch anniversary event


THREE WORKSHOP Our event featured three engaging workshops: GEORAMA Participants at the Georama workshop The workshop brought together top experts in geodata infrastructure to dive into the platform’s capabilities and potential. Read more… QFIELD Participants at the QField workshop A glimpse of QField: its vision, where it will it go and what exciting features can future users look forward to. Read more… QGIS PROCESSING Participants at the QGIS Processing workshop A mixed group of experienced QGIS users and developers got together to take a close look at the Graphical Modeler tool in QGIS. Read more…


OUR COMMITMENT TO OPEN-SOURCE Graphic celebrating 1 million QField downloads 🚀 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! 🚀 Get QField


Lightbulb illustration for the sustainability initiative OUR SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE 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 andimprove QGIS and QField for the entire community. Get a support contract


On another note, we’ll be at FOSSGIS 2025 starting tomorrow and we’re looking forward to seeing you there! OPENGIS.ch team photo for FOSSGIS 2025 OPENGIS.ch team at the 2025 hackfest