On 21. April 2010 the first german speaking QGIS user meeting took place in Bern, Switzerland. More than 80 GIS specialists from government agencies (national, regional and local), smaller companies and academia attended the presentations and discussions about QGIS.

Program:

• 08:45: Arrival and coffee
• 09:20 - 09:30: Introduction - Horst Düster, Kanton Solothurn
• 09:30 - 10:00: Presentation of the QGIS Project: Community, Open-Source Development, Support (commercial und community) - Otto Dassau (GBD-consult, Hannover; QGIS Community Advisor)
• 10:00 - 10:30: Data format support (incl. Interlis and SpatiaLite) - Horst Düster (Kanton Solothurn), Pirmin Kalberer (Sourcepole Bad Ragaz)

Coffee

• 11:00 - 11:30: Editing and Constructing - Stefan Ziegler (Kanton Solothurn)
• 11:30 - 12:00: Symbolizing, Labelling and Print layout - Marco Hugentobler (HUGIS GmbH, Adliswil; QGIS Technical Advisor)

Lunch

• 13:40 - 14:00: Parking and Green spaces asset management in GIS-Thun - Mathias Bigler (Dütschler & Naegeli, Thun)
• 14:00 - 14:30: QGIS in teaching - Claas Leiner (Universität Kassel)
• 14:30 - 14:50: Viewer for sewage management in GIS-Uster - Andreas Neumann (Stadt Uster)
• 14:50 - 15:10: Google Maps with the Openlayers-Plugin - Pirmin Kalberer (Sourcepole, Bad Ragaz)
• 15:10 - 15:40: GRASS Integration: Advanced analysis with the GRASS-Plugin - Otto Dassau (GBD-consult, Hannover)

Coffee

• 16:00 - 16:30 Discussions, Questions, Future work, ...

More information

http://www.qgis.org/en/user-meetings.html