wiki: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/20221201-Nashville-foss4g
OK – Updates. When this conference first started a few years back it was a wild hope that I could start a community building event here in the Southeastern US. Every year I was always amazed that people jumped in and presented papers and wanted to show up. It went from something I consider hyper local to regional and I’d argue in some ways “national” as we’re pulling people in from the Right and Left Coast of the US on this one.
Two things of note in one word : Keynotes
- Howard Butler – Serve Data Not Services – Gone are the days of buying a 2U server and sticking it in a rack in a closet next to an air conditioner. What was once organizational excess compute capacity to provide on-demand network services is now metered and measured in the cloud by the same administration that inventories the office supply cabinet. Excessive middleware is decidedly out of fashion, and concepts like Cloud Native Geospatial, with its focus on cloud optimized formats and JSON metadata to drive desktop and cloud applications alike are taking hold. Howard Butler, president of Hobu, Inc. and leader of the PDAL software project, will talk about formats, organization, federation, archive, and frustration in the process of getting data to and from the cloud.
- Andrea Aime – GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping, as well as to process data, either in batch or on the fly. GeoServer powers a number of open source projects like GeoNode and geOrchestra and it is widely used throughout the world by organizations to manage, disseminate and analyze data at scale. This presentation provides an update on our community as well as reviews of the new and noteworthy features for the latest releases. In particular, we will showcase new features landed in the past year, including the newly released GeoServer 2.22, and glimpse of what’s in store for GeoSever 2.23.
Yeah – Andrea Aime and Howard Butler.
Not to be outdone we have talks covering Tidy Census, OpenStreetMap, OSGEO Live, and other topics. It’s a really diverse look at the Open Source Geo Side of life.
We’ve even got something like 6 ..no wait – 7 sponsors:
- Hobu Inc
- Development Seed
- Vadose Industries
- North River Geographic Systems, Inc
- Locate Press
- Vanderbilt Institute for Spatial Research
- Drahola Technologies
- Geosolutions
Anyway – more updates coming. Those of you who have signed up or attending remotely expect an email shortly. This is going to be fun.
