This is coming up this Friday, 1.30 pm in Australia time! Join the Google Group or DM me for a direct invite :-)

🌟Welcome to Auspatious, a sponsor of FOSS4G 2025! Supporting open #geospatial technologies! - #data wrangling - #infrastructure - #software dev - #cloud infrastructure - technical #leadership > projects of all sizes > champion of open source geospatial https://auspatious.com/

📢Announcing our keynote speakers! 4 superb speakers; seriously, they rock Introducing you across this week Meet Amy Rose Currently = CTO @overturemaps.bsky.social  Responsible = technical roadmap, infrastructure design, data interoperability strategy 30 years #geospatial domain = myriad solutions

📢Announcing our keynote speakers! Meet Ana Belgun Co-leader of Terria Committed --> making #spatial data & digital twin tech more accessible &impactful for both tech & non-tech users Dedicated to driving open source initiatives  Empowers orgs to harness full potential of spatial data

📢Announcing our keynote speakers! Meet Hirini Tane Co-founder Takarangi Research Māori Strategic Capability Lead, Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki (Lincoln University) Involved = Te Potiki National Trust & Māori Maps Research = understand relationship b/n people, land & water ❤️'s listening to stories

📢Announcing our keynote speakers Meet Selene Yang Latin Am queer fem, community organiser, mapmaker Co-Fndr @geochicas.bsky.social  🔎 geospatial data @openstreetmap.bsky.social  --> feminist perspective 📍@wikimediafoundation.org Senior Sp, DEI Res Fellow, @digcivsoc.bsky.social , @stanford.edu  ➕

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

I want to find a reggae band for a conference in Auckland in November. We don't have a lot of money, and we want to dance! Does anyone know anyone? #auckland #music #livemusic

The community vote is open for @foss4g.org and there are some amazing talks in there! Get voting, and start getting excited 😃 talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...

It’s your last chance to register at early bird prices for @foss4g.org 2025.foss4g.org/attend/regis...

There's 2 weeks left of early bird registrations for @foss4g.org and no more extensions. We've got good registrations already and some great sponsors. And we have a great volunteer team (pic related). So, register now as you'll regret missing out on a bargain later! 2025.foss4g.org

#CNG2025 Lightning Talk Remember the days of costly satellite imagery stored on tapes? @ausp.io's presentation shows how far we've come with accessing EO data from a tedious, expensive process into a more efficient and globally accessible resource. ▶️ youtu.be/WleNwMhNWfk

This little checkbox should be checked by default on all Git repositories on @github.com Super useful not to need to clean up dead branches after a merge!

4.5 DAYS until early bird registration closes. https://2025.foss4g.org #earlybird #tickets #registration #osgeo #foss4g #auckland

Are we allowed to drink 0% alcohol beer before midday 🤔

Who wants to sponsor @foss4g.org in Auckland in November? No better time than now to commit! drive.google.com/file/d/1eD39...

I want to complain about maps... Exhibit 1, rare earth elements. Because the OBJECTID_1 and SHAPE__Length are very important indicators of the availability of rare earth elements.

This week we begin rolling out recordings from #CNG2025. First up: @opencholmes.bsky.social on "Towards a Global Spatial Data Ecosystem." As Chris states: "We have the tools and people we need to make a huge impact...as long as we do it together" ▶️ youtu.be/IA9ZvXOnPZ0 New videos dropping weekly!

Intro: Committee Members 😎 Co-Chair Alex Leith! - geospatial tech - global leader = Earth observation - delivers ops data infrastructure - expertise = software dev, cloud infrastructure, program gov - founding director OSGeo Oceania + more Runs @ausp.io #committee #foss4g #osgeo

A big thank you to our sponsor LINZ! 🤩 LINZ, or Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, is the NZ Government's lead agency for geospatial info. The agency is an open data leader & frequent contributor to geospatial open-source software. Our kinda agency ✨ See: https://f.mtr.cool/rrxeforvoe

On our way to @cloudnativegeo.org conf, @ausp.io and I met up in Vegas, hiked Zion, now swinging through Bryce canyon before heading up to Snowbird! Looking forward to a few days of #geonerding

Holy crap Zion National Park!

I’m on my way to the @cloudnativegeo.org conference, sporting my OG cloud native geospatial hoodie from 2020! Looking forward to meeting new people and being absolutely humbled by what people are doing. Also running a workshop Thursday morning, teaching some CNG for EO.

Image generation is so easy. I'm a prompt engineer. Vibe rendering.

Pretty chill kind of watercolour map of some coastal stuff

Got a new M4 Macbook Pro and somehow I have Python chewing up 100 GB in one process and 30 GB in another and the machine is just super happy, smooth as silk. Getting a bit hot doing some kind of neural network prediction stuff, but sailing through! (Would be faster if it wasn't swapping at all...)

Open source geospatial software is older than open source software! Maybe spatial is special 😂 #locate25

Check out the spectacular 2025 FOSS4G logo design submissions for this year's global event! 🗳️ Votes have started coming in 10 different ways to represent our gathering, all excellent All 10 are here - https://tinyurl.com/4m5k7rh8 Choose a fav by 13 April (closing 11:59p NZDT) #foss4g2025 #logo

✉️ Our second email newsletter has gone out to subscribers! It contains lots of news: Early Bird registration is open, you can apply for a Travel Grant, the call for papers is open, and you can vote for the conference logo 👏 Missed the email - mailchi.mp/foss4g/maili... mailchi.mp/foss4g/foss4...

Are you on the @foss4g.org mailing list? If not, you just missed the most important email of the year! Registration is now open. Also the call for papers, community vote for the logo, the travel grant program and... we're excited! Check the mailout below, and subscribe! mailchi.mp/foss4g/foss4...

On a 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk boasted that Tesla had bagged “over 1 million” Cybertruck reservations and that “demand is off the charts.” So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?

Guess what's launching tomorrow?

I'm a prompt engineer! Mine doesn't look ghibli-like, for some reason though.

A wrapper to gently unwrap and clean 20 year old tapes with unique satellite radar data! You still do something like this, right @joemorrison.bsky.social?

🛠️ Don't forget the FOSS4G 2025 Logo competition is closing on Sunday 23rd March. Your logo could be the official face of the FOSS4G 2025 Auckland conference, appearing on digital platforms, conference materials, and swag 😀 For further information see 2025.foss4g.org/logo-competi...

🚨 Workshop Alert🚨 @ausp.io is leading a Cloud-Native Geospatial for Earth Observation workshop at #CNG2025! 🌍 Dive into STAC, STAC APIs, Datacube tools, and workflows for handling decades of EO data. 🎟️Tickets are still available--register soon! 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

So, the US is no longer content with just the rich getting richer, they now want the poor to get poorer... This is the wealthiest country in the world... choosing to not support their people who have the least.

The @foss4g.org 2025 conference website is live! And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch! Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org

New radiohead album leaked

Well, after a very long time, I'm now moving off Google Chrome due to their removal of support for ad blocking. Hello @firefox.com! I'm sorry I left you, but I'm back now!

Bathymetry as art!

I pushed GEBCO data up to S3 on @source.coop. Thanks to @mdsumner.bsky.social for making a better COG than me! Included are instructions for streaming subsets into Python. Mikey might provide similar for R :-D source.coop/repositories...

The FOSS4G 2025 logo competition is running! You don't need to be a designer (we'll help the winner with professional design support) so get submitting ASAP 2025.foss4g.org/logo-competi...

The Global FOSS4G conference for 2025 is in Auckland, and this is your chance to make your mark by helping us with a logo design!

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Anyway, here's a map from our 1st Edition (1768).

Watched 28 Days Later again and damn that's a good movie. Deeply discomforting, super intense and just ... really good! Going to watch 28 Weeks Later tonight. Not sure how it'll go. Looking forward to the new one later this year!

The video recordings from #foss4g_sotm_2024 are now live! Check it out for a bit of a glimpse at the vibe for #foss4g2025 in Auckland! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.