After a somewhat shaky first version, Geotribu is pleased to announce some fairly significant and impactful changes to QChat, the chat system integrated into QGIS.
The new version of QChat is a bit like when Com Truise gets on a motorbike: it really gets the blood pumping!
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 :
In October we introduced "QChat", the plugin for chatting with other QGIS users, directly inside QGIS.
Since then, we have been working on some evolutions, and new geo oriented features are now available.
We're excited to announce the release of a new feature integrated into our QTribu plugin for QGIS: QChat! This new addition allows you to collaborate in real time with your team or other GIS fellows directly from QGIS.
We're in 2024 (unless you're reading this in 2025, or 2026, or... well, you get the idea), and let's be honest, Teams or IRC have their cons. Plus, you can't even use the hashtag #GISchat there, you can't meet fellow GIS enthusiasts and you definitely can't win Geotribu stickers 
... Honestly, it's time for something new.
Introducing a new way to chat directly in QGIS: QChat, a feature that lets you communicate with your peers within the best desktop GIS software around. The question is: why? And the answer: why not?