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events
- AWS re:Invent 2019
AWS’s re:Invent conference just wrapped last week. Since we’re so deep into AWS technologies, I keep an eye out each year on the trends visible in Amazon’s product launches. They move at breathtaking speed to fill out…
- Field Data Collection with Fulcrum, Mapbox, and NetHope
I wrote this wrap-up summary of our hands-on workshop we did at the NetHope Summit in San Juan. It was a great joint session with Mikel from Mapbox and John from NetHope. I’d love to do more of these in the future. Ha…
- Learning from Disaster
Through Fulcrum Community, we've been working with the team from NetHope to support their needs in responding to disasters around the world. In their work, they help first-responders in humanitarian crises around the…
- A Growing Geo Community: Takeaways from FOSS4G NA 2019
I had a great time last week out in San Diego for this year's FOSS4G-NA. This post I wrote for the company blog runs down general conference takeaways, plus a wavetops overview with best-of sessions I attended. It was…
- San Diego April 2019
I’m here in San Diego for the week for the FOSS4G North America conference. Today there was a “B2B / Government” focus day, hosted at the Mission Bay Marina Conference Center, a gorgeous spot right on the waterfront.…
- FOSS4G North America 2019
Next week Joe and I will be out in San Diego for FOSS4G-NA 2019. This'll be my first one since I think 2012. There's always an excellent turnout and strong base of good folks to catch up with. This year they've put to…
- Kicking Off SaaStr
Today was day 1 of the 3-day SaaStr Annual, my third one. Each year they up their game in terms of size and session quality. Logistics are much improved at the larger San Jose Convention Center. The team at SaaStr did…
- San Jose
We just touched down in San Jose this afternoon, here for the SaaStr Annual conference. An uneventful flight through LAX, arriving around 1pm local time here in California. One of my favorite things about westbound tr…
- Previewing SaaStr Annual 2019
I'm headed out to San Jose, CA next week for the SaaStr Annual conference. It'll be my third in a row; definitely one of the events I most look forward to nowadays. It always brings a great combo of interesting conten…
- Energy & Geography in 2050
Another great Geography2050 is in the books. This year’s focus was on energy, and as you might expect much of the panel discussion and subject matter expertise was on renewable energy sources and climate change respon…
- Teaching OpenStreetMap
We’re heading up next month to the American Geographical Society’s Geography2050 again this year, which will be my 4th one, and the 5th annual overall. It’s always a great event — a diverse crowd in attendance and a c…
- JekyllConf
JekyllConf is coming up in May, a conference to talk about the latest with Jekyll, the static site generator that lets you publish websites without heavy needs for hosting and databases. This isn't a typical conferenc…
- WhereCampTB
My talk from Ignite Spatial at WhereCampTB, talking about the OSM Tampa Bay meetup group. Check out the slides in better detail here. It was a fun event a couple weeks ago — great participation from folks in all…
- WhereCampDC
We just returned from a fantastic weekend up in DC - first at the Ignite Spatial event on Friday night, then the WhereCampDC unconference on Saturday. Being the first event of it’s kind that I’ve attended (with the “b…