Presentation and feedback from the QGIS-fr Users Meeting in Avignon

This is a guest post by Guilhem Allaman.

Mid-June, the French-speaking QGIS Users Meeting was held in Avignon, Southern France – a city often described as “the City of the Popes“, thanks to the Popes’ Palace, the city’s number one attraction. Not far from the non-terminated bridge, which has inspired some happy songs around the world as well as the 2025 edition banner :

The French-speaking QGIS community could meet, discuss and share some insightful ideas and moments together. The conference brought over 280 people from the 6 corners of France including Guadeloupe, as well as Belgium, Togo, Switzerland. The QGIS-fr Users Meeting, using the #QGISFR2025 hashtag on social media, proposed events during 3 days :

• During day 1, participants were able to take part to the 20 workshops, on a variety of balanced QGIS topics. Approximately 200 people attended that day. On the evening, a shared aperitif and dinner was organized.

• Day 2 was the conference day, with no less than 12 insightful talks, which showcased interesting usages and strategies around QGIS for the 220 attendants.
• Day 3 was devoted to contributions to the QGIS project, focusing on 5 axes : development, funding, documentation, translation and communication. Approximately 75 people attended that day.

The QGIS-fr Users Meeting is organized by OSGeo-fr, the french local chapter of the OSGeo Foundation. This year’s edition was in partnership and co-organized with Avignon Université, and especially the UMR 7300 ESPACE Unit.

The money raised by participants and sponsors registrations will be used to finance the QGIS project, as well as other projects on which QGIS depends. This year, the sum donated to QGIS.org is around €17,000.

OSGeo-fr is already looking forward to next year : the next edition will be held in March, in Brest – Brittany region, a place often described as “the End of the World“. The 2026 QGIS-fr Users Meeting will be organized in collaboration with the UMR LETG Unit.