20221201-Nashville-foss4g

Date
November 30th-December 2nd 2022

Description
This is a FOSS4G meeting in Nashville TN hosted at Vanderbilt University. It's an opportunity for Free and Open Source Software for GIS users in the area to get together and discuss projects, software, and get to know one another.


 * Do you want to present?


 * Meet other FOSS4G Enthusiasts?


 * Curious about Open Source GIS?

Register Below. Tickets will remain cheap. Can't afford a ticket? We can help.

Schedule
November 30th - Field trip around Nashville showing historical mapping project

December 1 - Talks

December 1 Night - Social

December 2nd TBA

Location
Vanderbilt University

101 19th Avenue South,

Nashville, TN 37212

Accomodations

 * Option 1: Scarritt Bennett

https://scarrittbennett.org/lodging/

First come first serve. Rooms start at $105.07 per night (that is for a single twin bed with a shared bathroom)

Every two rooms share an adjoining restroom.

To reserve call:  615-340-7469


 * Option 2: Aertson Hotel

$189 per night

Block of Rooms (50)

Reserved under: Vanderbilt Law Library & Special Collection

To reserve call: (877) 239-2269

https://www.aertsonhotel.com/

Tickets
Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-nashville-tickets-392509254747

Tickets are $25 for on site

We have Free Tickets if you are attending Virtually - you can also donate money to support the event through the free tickets.

Speakers
Link for Presentations: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1QZ1VkeTGVL9mfhGZdl8lX6K2dDC83vLDoS1Tf7oDpA5Ejw/viewform

Serve Data, Not Services - Howard Butler - Hobu, Inc

Gone are the days of buying a 2U server and sticking it in a rack in a closet next to an air conditioner. What was once organizational excess compute capacity to provide on-demand network services is now metered and measured in the cloud by the same administration that inventories the office supply cabinet. Excessive middleware is decidedly out of fashion, and concepts like Cloud Native Geospatial, with its focus on cloud optimized formats and JSON metadata to drive desktop and cloud applications alike are taking hold. Howard Butler, president of Hobu, Inc. and leader of the PDAL software project, will talk about formats, organization, federation, archive, and frustration in the process of getting data to and from the cloud.

Howard Butler is the founder and president of Hobu, Inc., an open source software consultancy located in Iowa City, Iowa that focuses on point cloud data management solutions. He is an active participant in the ASPRS LAS Committee, a Project Steering Committee member of both the PROJ and GDAL open source software projects, a contributing author to the GeoJSON specification, creator of the Cloud Optimized Point Cloud format, and a past member of the OSGeo Board of Directors. With his firm, Howard leads the development of the PDAL and Entwine open source point cloud processing and organization software libraries.

Mapping Beck Knob Cemetery - Randal Hale - NRGS

For the past 120 years, Beck Knob cemetery has been a repository of centuries worth of history and culture. It was provided by Joshua Beck as a resting place for slaves and their families. Through the years Beck Knob has been Documented through photographs and small mapping expeditions. In 2022, North River Geographic Systems, Inc and Platinum Geomatics set out to map the people buried in Beck Knob. This has turned into a large data collection project using Mergin (Mobile Client for QGIS). It’s also turned into a providing ground for Pleasant Gardens Cemetery and possibly the start of a project anyone with QGIS can use.

State of Geoserver - Andre Aime - Geosulutions

GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping, as well as to process data, either in batch or on the fly. GeoServer powers a number of open source projects like GeoNode and geOrchestra and it is widely used throughout the world by organizations to manage, disseminate and analyze data at scale.

This presentation provides an update on our community as well as reviews of the new and noteworthy features for the latest releases. In particular, we will showcase new features landed in the past year, including the newly released GeoServer 2.22, and glimpse of what’s in store for GeoSever 2.23.

Attend this talk for a cheerful update on what is happening with this popular OSGeo project, whether you are an expert user, a developer, or simply curious what GeoServer can do for you.

What's new in the Second Edition of Discovering QGIS 3.x - Kurt Menke

The Second Edition of Discover QGIS 3.x was published in August of 2022. The book is current to QGIS 3.26, includes 7 new chapters and a lot of new material. In this talk I will go through all the changes and what you will find in the Second Edition!

Using Open Source GIS in Real Estate Marketing - Erich Purpur

Boone Real Estate is a real estate firm in Boone, North Carolina and operates in an 8 county region in and around North Carolina's "High Country". In 2017, the firm decided to re-vamp its marketing campaign which involves sending direct mail marketing content to potential customers. Through the use of open source GIS technologies such as QGIS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and Python Boone Real Estate has updated and improved its marketing campaign. This FOSS technology has allowed increased levels of detail, customization, automation, and return on investment than previous marketing campaigns. This is an ongoing effort and is continuously evolving.

OSGeoLive Tour Q&A - Brian Hamlin

OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine built on Lubuntu/GNU Linux, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of Libre software, enabling it to be openly distributed, duplicated and passed around. Source code is available.

OSGeoLive provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.

Sponsors
Gold Sponsors

Hobu Inc

Development Seed

Vadose Industries

North River Geographic Systems, Inc

Locate Press

Vanderbilt Institute for Spatial Research