FOSS4G2007: Two Presentations
Just got notice that I’ll be giving two presentations at FOSS4G 2007: FeatureServer: A REST-based Server for Simple Features With the number of tools for creating vector data online growing rapidly...
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Conference Time a-comin
FOSS4G Conference is all this week, and I’ll be posting a ton of stuff as it happens in an effort to keep people not at the conference as in the loop as possible. This means that if you don’t care...
View ArticleArrived in Victoria
Now in Victoria. Actually, I was in Victoria something like 2 hours ago — I was able to make it from my A14 gate flight to S16C at SeaTac in record time, by my estimation, in only something along the...
View ArticleFOSS4G 2007: Plenary Session
ow at the FOSSS4G Plenary: Paul Ramsey is talking to us about the conference — how it’s grown over the years. Last year’s conference theme as ‘have fun’, and he thinks that this is a great one this...
View ArticleLightning Talks: I passed
Made it through my lightning talk. My 7 minute talk turned into a 4 minute talk somehow, but I didn’t get any negative feedback, and a couple pieces of positive feedback. So, I think I did okay. Now...
View ArticleFeatureServer: Talk Complete
Gave my FeatureServer talk. What I walked through in prep and what I actually talked about were not so much alike. However, the talk was *extremely* well attended. I feel bad for Charlie, who had way...
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TileCache Talk
Schuyler gave a great overview of TileCache, how to use it, and what it does earlier today. It was good that I didn’t have to give it. Came together really nicely. From the talks, sounds like a few...
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GRASS + QGIS: creating a non-GIS GIS Tool
Saw a neat presentation this morning about taking GRASS + QGIS and building a manager-friendly GUI: takes in data, and exports a PDF from Grass using drop downs in a wxPython GUI. Quite neat. It’s one...
View ArticleOpenLayers Routing, with a little help from my friends
So, one of the things I learned on Monday here at FOSS4G was how to set up pgRouting. pgRouting is a Postgres-based routing engine, originally developed by those wonderful Camptocamp folks, and since...
View ArticleGetting Help With Open Source: Just a few bits
Three quotes from my presentation earlier today, on Getting Help With Open Source: On talking to Open Source developers and asking for help: “Be Polite, Be Concise, Be Gracious.” On diving into the...
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