<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Dear QGIS Community,</div>

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<div>This is to let you know that the form for grant applications is now closed and that we have received 9 complete applications totalling € 103,600.</div>

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<div>As a quick teaser, here are the proposals:</div>

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<div>1. QGIS Bug Tracker cleanup - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/266</div>

<div>2. Switch to clang-format for C++ code and implement pre-commit hooks - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/264 and https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/265</div>

<div>3. Add vertical CRS handling to QGIS - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/267</div>

<div>4. Improve test result handling on QGIS CI - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/268</div>

<div>5. Update older annotation items to new framework - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/269</div>

<div>6. QGIS Project Loading Performance - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/261</div>

<div>7. Conda Installer for macOS - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/270</div>

<div>8. Unify the geometric and topological verification and correction features in QGIS - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/262</div>

<div>9. Porting to C++ and harmonization of Processing algorithms - https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/271</div>

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<div>We are now in the QEP discussion phase. Please tag all proposals with the Grant-2023 tag:</div>

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<div>https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AGrant-2023</div>

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<div>The QEP discussion phase takes two weeks and ends on Tuesday, 2023-05-16.</div>

<div>Afterwards, we will proceed to writing discussion summaries (by 2023-05-23),</div>

<div>followed by the voting phase with expected publication of voting results on 2023-06-06.</div>

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<div>Thank you to everyone who submitted project proposals!</div>

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Regards,</div>

<div>Anita</div>

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