by rjhale | May 11, 2016 | FOSS4G, Fulcrum, Geography, Humor, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, OSGEO, Rambling, Small Business
I’ve been debating on how to summarize the FOSS4GNA 2016 Experience – So I’m breaking this up into small digestible chunks and it’s more for my benefit than anything – I left FOSS4GNA with a lot to think about. In the previous post...
by rjhale | May 8, 2016 | Cartography, Education, FOSS4G, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, OSGEO
It’s over. As one friend pointed out there are something like 4 stages of conference attendance: Go for the Tech Go for the Friends Go for Free Beer You Stop Going On most everything I’m at 4. It takes a lot to drag me to a conference these days. I think...
by rjhale | Mar 25, 2016 | FOSS4G, North Carolina
Oh my sweet Carolina – What compels me to go? For those of you who have done nothing else but show up here from time to time and read my ramblings. Prepare for more rambling. Rambling with a point. Probably the two things I joke about the most but never bring up...
by rjhale | Mar 9, 2016 | FOSS4G, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, QGIS
I was debating this post most of the weekend – so I decided to set the egg timer at 20 minutes and run with it. Why show up at FOSS4GNA 2016? I’m saying “SHOW UP” and I know that’s not a good enough reason. Here are some statistics from...
by rjhale | Feb 29, 2016 | Cartography, FOSS4G, GDAL, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, Open Street Map, OSGEO, postgis, Python, QGIS, spatialite
Emails are flying so I wanted to throw something up here Confession: I’m on the conference committee. The final count came down to these numbers: 93 full talks, 36 half talks, 10 workshops, and 3 keynotes. You may look at this and go “OMG they are going to...
by rjhale | Feb 8, 2016 | FOSS4G, North Carolina, Open Source GIS
I always wanted to use Battle to the Death. So last week I saw the first email I’d been expecting for a while. It went something like: WHICH ONE??!!11!! In case the pics don’t translate it’s FOSS4GNA vs ESRI . Aaaaaaaand you’re more than...
