Videos and slides from FOSSGIS & AGIT OSGeo Day

July 18, 2016 Anita Graser

Last week I had the pleasure to attend the combined FOSSGIS, AGIT and GI_Forum conferences in Salzburg. It was a great joint event bringing together GIS user and developers from industry and academia, working with both open source and commercial GIS.

I was particularly impressed by the great FOSSGIS video team. Their tireless work makes it possible to re-watch all FOSSGIS talks (in German).

I also had the pleasure to give a few presentations. Most of all, it was an honor to give the AGIT opening keynote, which I dedicated to Open Source, Open Data & Open Science.

In addition, I also gave one talk related to an ongoing research project on pedestrian routing. It was really interesting to see that other people – in particular from the OSM community – also talked about this problem during FOSSGIS:

(For more details, please see the full paper (OA).)

To wrap up this great week, Astrid Emde, Andreas Hocevar, and myself took the chance to celebrate the 10th anniversary of OSGeo during AGIT2016 OSGeo Day.

Full house at #AGIT2016 os geoday with @astroidex @ahoce and myself, celebrating 10 years #osgeo https://t.co/7n81G9oX81
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Anita Graser (@underdarkGIS) July 08, 2016

And last but not least, I presented an update from the QGIS project with news about the 3.0 plans and a list of (highly subjective) top new features:

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QGIS workshops at FOSSGIS

We are looking forward to a hot geo summer here in Central Europe with both the German FOSSGIS (this year in conjunction with the annual AGIT conference) and the international FOSS4G just a few weeks away. It’s going to be exciting, and I still have a lot of talks (and a keynote) to prep for both events ;-)

If you speak German and want to enhance your geo skills, the FOSSGIS program offers some great opportunities and there is still the chance to sign up for a couple of great FOSSGIS workshops:

The QGIS project’s own Otto Dassau is running a “QGIS Grundlagen” workshop, as well as a workshop about the new GRASS plugin for QGIS.
For more hands-on training with the makers themselves, don’t miss Marco Hugentobler’s and Pirmin Kalberer’s workshop on publishing with QGIS Server and QGIS Cloud.
If you want to become a professional with projections, Claas Leiner’s workshop “Projektionsmanagement in QGIS” covers dealing with custom transformations. Claas is also running a Processing workshop on Wednesday.

Of course the program also features many non-QGIS workshops. If I’d have to pick one of them, it would most certainly be Marc Jansen’s and Andreas Hocevar’s OpenLayers 3 workshop because it’s always great to get the latest information first hand, directly from the developers.

Online registration closes on June 25th.

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FOSSGIS2011 – After Action Report

April 8, 2011 Anita Graser

FOSSGIS2011 in Heidelberg was a great success for the QGIS project and for me personally. The audience was really impressed by Marco’s and Andreas’ presentation on QGIS Mapserver and GeoExt Web Client. My presentation on Time Manager for QGIS was followed by a series of interesting questions and comments concerning use cases in e.g. land use mapping. Requested features include support for raster layers and support for timestamps before year 19xx.
I’ll be posting an English version of the Time Manager presentation including some additional comments here soon.