FOSS4G-Europe-2025/BirdsOfAFeather

Introduction

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

General Information

At the FOSS4G-Europe-2025 conference in Mostar, a number of spaces have been reserved for people to flock together in Birds of a Feather sessions.

How to organize a BOF

BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in BoF rooms at specified timeslots or taken off-site for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

The FOSS4G Europe conference provides the BoF rooms at the University of Mostar where the parallel sessions of FOSS4G Europe 2025 take place, but the setup of the bird-of-feather meetup is done informally using this wiki by you yourself.

The room names follow the encoding:

EL - Faculty of Economics (lecture room) @ openstreetmap.org/#map=18/43.344195/17.79631

SA - Socrates (amphitheatre) @ openstreetmap.org/#map=18/43.344128/17.796726

CA - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy (amphitheatre) @ openstreetmap.org/#map=18/43.346468/17.796709

PA - Faculty of Philosophy (amphitheatre) @ openstreetmap.org/#map=18/43.344169/17.797409

Wednesday 16 July 18:00-19:00

Room EL11

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Room SA01

TomTom - Community-Driven, Open by Nature—Advancing Data for All

• Description: TomTom - Community-Driven, Open by Nature—Advancing Data for All
• Person to contact: Salim Baidoun Email: salim.baidoun@tomtom.com

Agenda

• TomTom in the Geospatial world
• Partnerships in OSM
• TomTom product stack and solutions

Who is coming:

• Salim Baidoun
• Chiara Angiolini
• Mile Milkovski
• Mick Larson

Room SA02

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Room CA01

Organization of the local/regional OSGEO Chapter

• Description:

"When I started my journey organizing FOSS4G in Mostar, I set one clear goal: to ignite the formation of a regional OSGeo Chapter. FOSS4G Mostar is not the result – it’s just the beginning. Join me on this quest."

Let's plant seeds for lasting collaboration. Let’s make the open geospatial movement stronger and more connected.

• Person to contact: Marko Puljic marko.puljic(at)ecoplan(dot)ba

Agenda

- Why to start local/regional OSGeo Chapter? What should be our mission? goals?

- What does it take to build one?

- Who can help us to reach this goal?

- Mapping who is ready to contribute

Who should join? - Anyone thinking starting a local chapter - Members of existing chapters willing to share experience - NGOs, universities, companies and public sector representatives

Who is coming:

• Marko Puljic
• Salim Baidoun

Room PA01

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Thursday 17 July 18:00-19:00

Room EL11 !!! This room is no longer available for BoF

Title

• Description: Due to space limitations, this room is no longer available for BoF sessions.
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Room SA01

Mapping Connectivity: How Open School Geospatial Data Powers Digital Inclusion

Nearly half of the world’s 6 million schools still lack internet access - a barrier to learning, opportunity, and equity. In this Birds of a Feather session, we’ll explore how Giga is using open geospatial data and tools to map school locations and connectivity status, helping governments, partners, and communities make smarter investments and close the digital divide.

We'll also explore the power of open school data beyond connectivity: how can we better support disaster response, infrastructure planning, and public health, unlocking broader social impact through transparency and collaboration.

Join us to exchange ideas, discuss open data standards, and connect with others working at the intersection of FOSS, mapping, and meaningful access.

• Person to contact: Mick Larson - mlarson@unicef.org

Agenda

• The connectivity challenge
• Open geospatial data and tools for connectivity
• Further impact

Who is coming:

• Mick Larson (UNICEF)
• Salim Baidoun

Room SA02

TomTom and the Open Map communities

• Description: TomTom and the Open Map communities
• Person to contact: Salim Baidoun Email: salim.baidoun@tomtom.com

Agenda

• Firechats
• Collaboration models

Who is coming:

• Salim Baidoun
• Chiara Angiolini
• Mile Milkovski

Room CA01

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Room PA01

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