2012 year in review

31.12.2012 16:35 ·  Notes  ·  year-in-review

Traditionally, at the end of the year, I try to summarise the most important and interesting events.

This year I have had to work hard. In addition to working on various projects, I have been quite active in QGIS, especially at the beginning of the year. In total, more than 50 bugs in QGIS were fixed, and 4 new plugins were released. It looks like next year will be even more intense.

The year was rich in releases: GDAL 1.9.0 (and related shapefile encoding issues), Proj 4.8, QGIS 1.7.4 and 1.8.0, PostGIS 2.0 (topology and raster), OTB 3.12 (full support for Πλειάδες). 181317 OrbView-3 scenes have been released under the Public Domain licence. Also, this year SEXTANTE for QGIS was announced — a powerful geoprocessing platform that soon became part of QGIS.

QGIS is now 10 years old.

I released several new QGIS plugins, including Geotag and import photos, and participated in GSoC as a mentor. For a short time I became a SEXTANTE core developer (then it was integrated into QGIS and I lost that title).

Moved this blog to my “own” server.

Happy New Year!