by rjhale | May 30, 2016 | FOSS4G, OSGEO
I am seriously slacking on my 2016 FOSS4GNA report. Perhaps today I will get caught up. I’ve been on conference committees before – but nothing quite this large and complicated. To be completely 100% honest I don’t deal with committee work well....
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 | Apr 25, 2016 | FOSS4G, Open Source GIS, OSGEO, Training
So at some point (probably next year) – I want to do an international FOSS4G Conference. From the Email bag: FOSS4G starts Early Bird Booking FOSS4G represents the global gathering of the Open Source Geospatial community with a deep focus on free and open source...
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 | Oct 29, 2015 | FOSS4G, Geography, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, Open Street Map, OSGEO, Social Media
Ladies and Germs, The call for proposals for the Free and Open Source Software For GIS – North America is now open. So what does that mean – submit something! Come to Raleigh NC. I’ve been to two conferences – this will be number 3. To be...
