<html><head></head><body><div><font face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dear QGIS Community,</span></font></div><div><font face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is to let you know that the form for grant applications is now closed and that we have received 11 complete applications totaling € 65,200. (For comparison, the grant programme budget is €30,000.)</span></font></div><div><font face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><div style=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a quick teaser, here are the proposals:</span></div><div style=""><ol><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Update older annotation items to new framework https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/269<br></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cleanup QGIS data provider code and move more providers to core library    https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/288</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Authentication System: allow Database (initially Postgres) storage for authentication DB     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/248</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Switch to clang-format for C++ code and implement  pre-commit hooks  https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/264QGIS Enhancement: </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Authentication system revision     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/289</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Clean up point cloud index and improve its thread safety     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/290</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">QGIS Enhancement Proposal: Mitigate Abusive Tile Fetching on OpenStreetMap (OSM) Servers     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/291</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Implementing CI Qt6 Windows Builds through vcpkg     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/292</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fix access to remote data sources in WebAssembly builds      https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/294</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PyQGIS linter warnings       https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/287</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Embbeded end-user feedback and renewed report workflow       https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/295</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All proposals are tagged with the Grant-2024 tag:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/labels/Grant-2024
<br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We are now in the QEP discussion phase. </span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
The QEP discussion phase takes two weeks and ends on Saturday, 2024-04-06. Afterwards, we will proceed to writing discussion summaries (by 2024-04-13), followed by the voting phase with expected publication of voting results on 2024-04-27. 

Thank you to everyone who submitted project proposals!
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