<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><span style="font-size:16px">Dear Users of QGIS</span><br></h1><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Friday, 30 October 2020 is KwakFriday! What is 'KwakFriday' 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 a principle of self-organisation and community participation.</p><hr style="font-size:16px;height:0.25em;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0px;border:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-programme" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHF-October-2020#programme" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>Programme</h2><ol style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><li style="box-sizing:border-box">AMA With Marco Bernasocchi</li></ol><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS Project Chair) and I will be hosting a 2 hour AMA (ask me anything) session. The session will be recorded so if you can't watch live, you can still feel free to submit your QGIS brain teasers and burning questions for Marco to answer (use this form to quickly share a question: <a href="https://cloud.kartoza.com/apps/forms/7AMg9qXfEA8Rratk" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://cloud.kartoza.com/apps/forms/7AMg9qXfEA8Rratk</a>).</p><ol start="2" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><li style="box-sizing:border-box">QGIS Server Updates with Alessandro Pasotti</li></ol><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Alessandro Pasotti (QGIS Project Vice-Chair) will be showing off all the fantastic new features in QGIS Server especially the new server landing page, OGC API for Features (aka: WFS3) support and the standalone development server.</p><ol start="3" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><li style="box-sizing:border-box">More may still be announced</li></ol><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">See where to watch below for the link to the wiki page with session times etc., additional sessions on the day may be announced there.</p><hr style="font-size:16px;height:0.25em;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0px;border:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-where-to-watch" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHF-October-2020#where-to-watch" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>Where to watch</h2><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">Please see the event wiki page at <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHF-October-2020" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHF-October-2020</a> for all the details of times and links for watching.</p><hr style="font-size:16px;height:0.25em;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0px;border:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-get-involved" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QHF-October-2020#get-involved" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>Get Involved!</h2><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">You can do this too! We really encourage others to follow our initiative, using the above wiki page to organise your plans (just add a section below our AMA 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.</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji"">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!</p><ul style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofconduct.html" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofconduct.html</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em"><a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/diversitystatement.html" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/diversitystatement.html</a></li></ul><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";margin-bottom:0px">We look forward to seeing you there!</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";margin-bottom:0px">Regards</p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><p style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";margin-bottom:0px">Tim</p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=7ebbf93252&view=fimg&th=15a9e43c0bbf93ca&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=9436e64174762963_0.1.1&attbid=ANGjdJ-WL_J24nvBiYidJ0V0xpdsYqRwswi5nq5oywcJEHC7twYVMrxG0y-GNPu_ahJthV8ktXwYuHoVm5DI2FrRAtPzelTRHrsE2wweR9uu8wT-zz2hNRqFwi4SorQ&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1488721675176&rm=15a9e43c0bbf93ca&atsh=1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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