QGIS India Monthly Meeting - Meeting Summary and Recording

[Ujaval Gandhi]

Hi All,

Thanks to all who joined the meeting today. The recording for the meeting is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoTDM-PNmXY

AI-generated meeting summary is below:

The QGIS India User Group held its first monthly community meeting, featuring updates on QGIS 4.0 release and tutorials on custom map design using OSM vector tiles and layer sorting with Python. Arjun demonstrated how to stream and style OpenStreetMap data in QGIS without downloading it locally, while Sudarshan shared a PyQGIS script for automatically sorting layers alphabetically. Janhavi presented recent events including the QGIS Open Day and International Women's Day celebration, announcing monthly community meetings on the third Friday. Aravinth discussed the translation initiative status, noting that 90-95% of QField strings remain pending translation across 22 Indian languages, and proposed establishing student chapters to help with localization efforts. The conversation ended with suggestions to potentially move future meetings from Fridays to weekdays to improve attendance.

Next steps

• All interested members: Volunteer to help with QField translations by reaching out via the mailing list
• Nitin (and others interested in starting student chapters): Reach out to organizers via the mailing list to discuss starting QGIS student chapters in colleges
• All members: Provide suggestions on the proposed QGIS membership directory Google Form (regarding information to collect or remove)
• Ujaval/Organizers: Consider changing the monthly meeting schedule from Friday to Tuesday/Wednesday based on member feedback
• All interested members: Reach out if interested in helping organize future events

I am also sharing the presentation below.​

 QGIS India User Group Monthly Meetup - March 2026

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Ujaval Gandhi

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