Workshop: Building Your First QGIS Plugin

Start your journey into QGIS development by building your first plugin. This beginner-friendly workshop will help you understand how plugins work and gain hands-on experience creating a plugin from scratch. The workshop will teach you how to build a simple plugin that allows you to easily load your favorite basemap in QGIS with just a click. We will start with a minimal plugin template and learn how to add features and user interface. Finally, you will be able to package your plugin and share with your friends and colleagues.

Pre-requisites: You will need a recent version of QGIS (QGIS 3.40 recommended) and your favorite Text Editor installed on your computer. Knowledge of Python and PyQGIS is helpful, but is not required. You may use any text editor for this workshop. If you do not have a favorite text editor, install one of the recommended beginner-friendly and free text editors from the list below.

• Windows: Notepad++ is a good free editor for windows.
• Mac: TextMate is an open-source editor for Mac that is simple yet powerful.
  
  

This is a 2-hour workshop - find your time zone:

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Meet your Instructor

Ujaval Gandhi,
Founder of Spatial Thoughts

Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India. He was also the lead trainer for Google Earth Engine in India and trained over 1000 researchers, scientists, and engineers.

After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.

Ujaval is a world-renowned training facilitator who is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is a QGIS.org certified trainer and one of the co-authors of the book Earth Engine Fundamentals and Applications published by Springer.