Get involved / Developement
QGIS is developed by a team of dedicated volunteers and organizations.
We strive to be a welcoming community for people of all race, creed, gender and
walks of life.
You can get involved!
For more information, please read our diversity statement and code of conduct.
GET
INVOLVED
Report Bugs
If
you find an issue working with QGIS, please
report it
so developers can check and fix it.
Participate in
Support Channels
There are several
·
QGIS mailing lists,
·
IRC chats,
·
forums, and
·
user groups
you can use to get help from fellow
users and developers, or to keep up with current project events. You are
welcome to subscribe to any of the lists. Please remember to contribute to the
list by answering questions and sharing your experiences. We also provide
a website to search the mailing list archives.
For the full list see our community support channels page
Document QGIS
The QGIS project aims to provide clear documentation
concerning a User guide, GIS concepts, and training material. Writing
documentation provides an ideal platform for your first contribution to the
project. If you want to join to the documentation effort, you can find a gentle
introduction and guidelines here:
Write Documentation
Translate QGIS
The QGIS project provides a gentle GIS introduction, a User
Guide, a Coding and Compilation Guide and a API Documentation in english and in
some cases also translated into several foreign languages. If you are
interested in getting involved with the documentation effort, e.g. translating
the english manual into another language, learn how to get started here:
Translate QGIS into your Language
Develop a Plugin
Want to write your own Python plugin? Go here: Developing Python plugins
Want to develop a C++ plugin? Go here: Developing CPP plugins.
A wide range of great plugins exist for QGIS via the QGIS
Plugin web portal.
Develop QGIS Core
QGIS Core consists on the one hand of the libraries enabling
you to build custom tailored application by providing a powerful API. On the
other hand it consists of a desktop and server application which expose the
possibilities offered by the libraries, offering a user friendly interface.
Get Set Up for QGIS Core Development
QGIS roadmap
Sustain & Donate
There are two kinds of financial contributions, we accept:
Sustaining memberships: annual
commitments of funds to the project - more information and a list of our sustaining members
donations: one-time
financial contributions to the project –
we accept donations via a variety of channels
