I’ve been too busy to write anything as of late. I have a lot to talk about – just not much time to do it.
So FOSS4GNA happened on Sept 9-11 2024. Probably the biggest thing for me during the conference was we had two BOFs on QGIS. Granted – I think it was supposed to be one but an unnamed person shouldn’t be shamed for not correcting for Central Time. I can’t even remember which BOF I grabbed this from
Not a large group – but a passionate group. We had a lot of conversation and basically here are how things are hopefully about to go:
- Website Folk to revamp the QGIS-us.org website. I’ve temporarily stood up wordpress because that was the easiest.
- Start finding other groups if there are any. The United States is a big place but we have the internet and a website we can modify. I get a lot of questions on who is running QGIS these days – I don’t know but I know a lot are.
- Put people in Universities in touch with each other.
- Stand up Monthly Meetings to get people to talk.
- Move the QGIS users list to discourse. There’s been a significant amount of chatter on the OSGEO listserves and this stands a chance to “modernize” the listserve without going full Slack.
The end result: Maybe by FOSS4GNA 2025 we are a significant part of the conference. At worse we’re facilitating small meetings around the US. Either way, we become more exciting.
Anyway – Fun Stuff. Good Stuff. Lets get active.
