<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-36179652-7fff-0868-04ec-27a27e389e62"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Community,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2020, as we all know, has been a special year and among plenty other issues we had to cancel all our beloved hackfests. Since we first started holding bi-annual hackfests in 2009, it will be the first time without an event where our friendly community can meet. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:376px;height:400px"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/hSpLOT1DXIrBfLoGUqCGEzTPVFSpsVrJpK9-ULR6haWBhIMZIG1pwgtTir3VaUgqcufP6P2NbFY2_Pb4ZARwiReIem95vqdL8aIVOgjVSWNnOFeGp1KsPWrS-q6EL2lV4mZZCQRK" width="376" height="400" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">That can’t be! We are a modern and thriving community based on exchange, discussion and collaboration and should foster this even when physical meetings are not possible.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’m super excited to announce that after some very motivating discussions on the HackFest telegram channel [2] and in the PSC, starting from next week </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">on every last Friday of each month</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> we will hold an informal online virtual meeting to hack around, document, discuss and in general meet the awesome QGIS community. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:624px;height:311px"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/tBVdI-MBZ8N1kz3KGHi6myIKLkOh1vAFwSuDosgSO8Ax3wDYVivqrMNEbEwMDDFBcffKWeKB7HwCKH5GrpnWQmJS2O_RYnVlTmDsuOuLhYI6rP7NI7gZKupBGneKatGQLrVTx6Oa" width="624" height="311" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There will normally be no formal agenda, no fixed schedule nor moderators, simply join the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">QHackFriday</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (pronounced KwakFriday) on jitsi [0] and say hi! </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I added a page to the wiki [1], so if you have topics that you like to discuss/present you can put them there and others might join you. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stay safe and see you next Friday!</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[0] </span><a href="https://meet.jit.si/QHackFriday" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(3,102,214);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://meet.jit.si/QHackFriday</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1] </span><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHackFriday" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHackFriday</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] </span><a href="https://t.me/joinchat/Aq2V5RPoxYYhXqUPoxRWPQ" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://t.me/joinchat/Aq2V5RPoxYYhXqUPoxRWPQ</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Picture 1: </span><a href="https://www.umwelt.uni-hannover.de/qgis.html?&L=1" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.umwelt.uni-hannover.de/qgis.html</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Picture 2: </span><a href="https://qgis2015.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://qgis2015.wordpress.com</span></a></p><br></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">Marco Bernasocchi</span><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><div><br></div><div>QGIS.org Chair<br>OPENGIS.ch CEO</div></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="http://berna.io/" target="_blank">http://berna.io</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>