You may have missed out on attending FOSS4GNA I.R.L but fear not, a few of the keener attendees have sacrificed a little of their time to pen their thoughts, comments, and impressions of the event… enjoy, and thanks to these faithful bloggers for sharing!
FOSS4G recaps, summaries and comments from attendees…
RANDAL HALE @rjhale
@rjhale‘s classically homespun musings on #foss4gna http://t.co/WyDxn5AZiY He’s guy on left saving $ via backyrd BBQ. pic.twitter.com/10dgFVOnc2
— Michael Terner (@MT_AppGeo) March 16, 2015
— Randal Hale (@rjhale) March 18, 2015Randal was eager to share his thoughts it seems as he was the first one to roll out a rather personal and laid back post of his experience of the event – apparently the rush of traffic crashed his blog! Randal was captured in a number of fun selfies around the San Fran venue and his classically “down to earth” tweets, photos and musings from the event added a fun and real perspective which many folks, including yours truly enjoy.
PETER BATTY @pmbatty – Geothought blog
Finally got a lengthy review of #foss4gna written up. Short summary – it was awesome! http://t.co/OzSQtaKFVl — Peter Batty (@pmbatty) March 19, 2015
Peter provided a very lengthy summary of the event, which I suspect required at least 3 Pints and perhaps some help from a very nice Cabernet in order to pen! I won’t regurgitate what Peter discussed but share his main take away points:
- FOSS4G NA was awesome
- There were way more female presenters than at previous events
- Mapbox was everywhere
- Boundless wasn’t
- Lots of new developments on vector tiles, including several efforts from companies other than Mapbox – even some promised from Esri!
- Progress towards Leaflet 1.0 but I’m a bit puzzled that Mapbox doesn’t have more focus on integrating the worlds of Leaflet and Mapbox GL
- Cesium is a super cool JavaScript library for doing Google Earth like apps, and had the coolest demos I saw at FOSS4G – drive a monster milk truck!
- OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) does incredibly fast dynamic routing, and also shows how much OpenStreetMap data has improved for routing.
- People are continuing to do cool stuff with D3 and other approaches to vector maps.
BRYANMCBRIDE @brymcbride – FulcrumApp Blog
Observations from the 2015 #foss4gna Conference. Insights from @mourner @MT_AppGeo @matt_amato http://t.co/LZrd6JQYAc via @fulcrumapp — Bryan McBride (@brymcbride) March 17, 2015
Observations from FOSS4G – Bryan is part of the FulcrumApp team (Tampa) and cheerfully shared what seems to be the thought of all in attendance at FOSS4G… “the best thing about attending a conference like this is being surrounded by all the creative energy of folks excited about doing cool stuff!” Bryan shared what he felt was buzzing along with his key takeaways which included some updates on Leaflet and a user story on AppGeo – he did comment on what I heard from others in that the co-location with EclipseCon was ummm… “interesting”.
SEE ALSO:
- Summary from GISi
- Links and tips from @adenas
- THE OFFICIAL CONFERENCE WEBSITE https://2015.foss4g-na.org/
- PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT ON FLICKR
TIMELINE
The FOSS4G team has shared videos from the event: See them all at The FOSS4G Youtube Channel
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