FOSS4G Europe 2017

Enjoyed attending FOSS4G Europe, great chance to catch up with the OSGeo board for a productive face to face meeting and appreciate the vibrant community in Europe first-hand.

Thanks to the organizers for a great event. I really appreciated the chance to promote open source and share the work being done for the new OSGeo website:

• Understand the Flexibility of Open Source exploring context of this boundless blog post
• OSGeo Branding and Website Reboot based on OSGeo blog updates for july, june, may, april
• State of GeoServer 2.12 with Andrea Aime
• Incubation Orientation part of a topic talk on Sustainability of OSGeo projects that included  an important talk from Massimiliano Cannata and Jeff McKenna on the performance of OSGeo
• I have foss4ge pictures on flickr, also added to foss4g europe group.

There were many thoughtful talks, Ivan providing wisdom on Love, to an exhubrent Jeff McKenna speaking on the foss4g family.

I had three highlights to share:

• Catching up with Marc Vloemans and seeing the community enjoying the new branding that everyone has worked so hard on.
• The code sprint where the enthusiasm was brought into action: with Nicolas Roelandt stepping in to help on content collection forms when I was getting overwhelmed, along with Astrid, Luca, Venka taking on review of the printed materials.
• Having a chance to work through design decisions with Andrea and outline the relationship between JAI-EXT project and the Raster Processing Engine. 

Thanks to Boundless for giving me an opportunity attend and speak at this community event.