FOSS4G 2015 Workshops

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The first two days, as is often the case, were devoted to hands-on workshops. There were a number of GeoServer workshops this year:

• GeoServer Performance was our first workshop offering a chance to benchmark GeoServer and explore the impact environment, configuration, styling and data preparation have on performance. This was a fairly advanced workshop, assuming GeoServer knowledge so we could focus on getting the most out of GeoServer.
  Being a full day workshop we were looking at a nine hour day! I would like to thank everyone who attended (especially for the questions). The workshop materials will be available online shortly.
• Beyond GeoServer Basics was Tom Ingold's chance to shine with an intermediate workshop for those who have tried out GeoServer and want to take it to the next level.
• I also got to enjoy Andrea Aime's GeoServer for Beginners workshop (which went into a fair bit of detail on using the CSS Extension for styling maps).

There was one odd thing - the progression of GeoServer workshops went from advanced, to intermediate to a beginners workshop (making for a strange transition for people who attended them all). Still everyone had a great time, and I really liked seeing the students who brought along their own data, or those who were running off to benchmark their servers after the class.

Korean BBQ

Thanks to Alyssa for organizing a Korean BBQ on Tuesday night. It made for an excellent start to a social week.

FOSS4G 2015

The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial was held in Seoul, Korea in 2015.

A quick thanks to my Boundless colleagues for making the workshop day a success and of course Boundless and the Open Source Community for giving us so much to celebrate.

FOSS4G North America Preflight Checks

I am really excited to be heading to foss4gna today, emerging from the mist of the victoria airport to what promises to be a great regional OSGeo event. This years event is put on by OSGeo and LocationTech ... and the difference is already apparent.

I am part of the organizing committee and am surprisingly not stressed out. It can be incredibly trying to pull together a foss4g international or regional conference and there are two big reasons why this event feels so different.

The first reason is the new blood represented by the LocationTech projects. It is great to not only have new committers in our end of the internet but new leaders heading up the organizing committee for foss4gna.

The second reason in the experienced conference organizing team so we do not burn out a "local organizing committee". After Portland the OSGeo discussion list debated the pros and cons of teaming up with conference organizers with foss4gna being viewed as an initial test run.

As for how this week plays out - there are a number of questions: The event is co-hosted with EclipseCon which is a great opportunity for developer outreach. Will there be much cross over between the two conferences? Who will be at the OSGeo booth to introduce us to the Eclipse, Science and IOT communities?

This will be an exciting week for FOSS4G and our community - stay tuned for more.