<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin-left:18pt">Rencontre régionale des membres du projet
Ville Ouverte en Afrique à Dar Es Salaam du 23 au 31 Aout 2018<span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">La<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">
deuxième rencontre régional des membres du Projet Villes Ouvertes en Afrique (</span></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://opencitiesproject.org/">http://opencitiesproject.org</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) qui s’est tenu à Julius Nyerere International
Convention Centre de Dar Es Salaam coïncidait avec 03 grands évènements que
sont: FOSS4G (</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://2018.foss4g.org/" target="_blank">http://2018.foss4g.org</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">), Understanding Risk Tanzania (</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://understandrisk.org/event/urtz2018" target="_blank">http://understandrisk.org/event/urtz2018</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) et HOT Summit (</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://summit.hotosm.org/" target="_blank">http://summit.hotosm.org</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">). <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Ce séjour nous a permis rencontrer, en
plus de Vivien Deparday et son équipe de la Banque Mondiale du Projet Ville
Ouverte Africa, toujours attentive et attentionnée, plusieurs personnalités des
organisations internationales et des sociétés ou Entreprises opérant la
production et la gestion des données géospatiales <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Je leur ai présenté nos réalisations
notamment en termes de production des données géospatiales au Cameroun ((</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="http://acager.org/">http://acager.org</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">) et surtout
de la formation des Géomaticiens à travers le Master GAGER que je coordonne à
l’Université de Ngaoundéré depuis 2011 avec le soutien de l’Agence
Universitaire de la Francophonie (</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="http://gager-undere.auf-foad.org/">http://gager-undere.auf-foad.org</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> et </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="http://www.foad-mooc.auf.org/-Master-pro-M2-en-Geomatique-.html">http://www.foad-mooc.auf.org/-Master-pro-M2-en-Geomatique-.html</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">) Au niveau
des Stands, nous avons échangé avec les représentants de plusieurs organismes,
de sociétés ou entreprise et des projets opérant dans le domaine de la
Technologie Geospatiale, notamment <b>Ny
Conseil</b> (Expertise, conseil, Formation en Système d’Géographique), <b>AZAVEA </b>(Géospatial Technology and
ressearch for civic and Social impact), <b>OSLANDIA</b>
dont la plupart de membres sont des contributeurs QGIS et <b>KARTOZA</b> (Free and Open Source GIS Services providers), <b>OSGeo</b>, <b>MapBox </b>et <b>CropsatTB</b>. Ce
fut une fabuleuse expérience.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Vivement que des rencontres de ce genre
se poursuivent afin qu’aucune partie du monde ne soit laissée derrière sur cette longue route vers le développement.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Merci à OSgeo pour cette file de discussion qui doit nous garder en contact permanent.</span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,"new york",times,serif">*************************<br>Michel Tchotsoua, </span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Professeur Titulaire des Universités</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10px"><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(191,0,191)"><font color="#440062">HDR de Géographie-Géomatique par l'Université d'Orléans</font><br>Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences</span>.</span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font size="2">C'est quoi la Géomatique ?</font></b></span></div><div><font color="#0000ee" face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3LBtNEHE8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3LBtNEHE8</a></u></b></span></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:13px">Phone : + 237 699 86 93 86 or + 237 675 57 53 87. </span></font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:13px">Web Site : <span style="color:rgb(191,0,191)">www.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(210,100,170);font-size:13px">un-</span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(191,0,191)"><a href="http://labogeomatique.org" target="_blank">labogeomatique.org</a></span><span style="font-size:13px">. 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1. My experience at the FOSS4G 2018 (Rohith Reddy)<br>
2. Re: My experience at the FOSS4G 2018 (Suchith Anand)<br>
3. World Challenge OSGeo Award (Patrick Hogan)<br>
4. R: [Geo4All] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018<br>
(Maria Antonia Brovelli)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:38:41 +0300<br>
From: Rohith Reddy <<a href="mailto:rohithreddy2219@gmail.com" target="_blank">rohithreddy2219@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: pgRouting developers mailing list <<a href="mailto:pgrouting-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">pgrouting-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>>,<br>
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018<br>
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
I am Rohith Reddy, an MS student at IIIT Hyderabad and a developer at<br>
pgRouting. I attended the FOSS4G 2018 at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The main<br>
conference was from 29 August - 31 August 2018. There were two main reasons<br>
for me to attend the conference. The first reason was to present my<br>
research work done at my university which was accepted at the conference.<br>
The second reason was to represent pgRouting at the conference. In this<br>
email, I would like to share what I did and the experiences I gained at the<br>
FOSS4G 2018.<br>
<br>
<br>
*Presented pgRouting at the OSGeo Annual General Meeting*<br>
<br>
- The OSGEO Annual General Meeting(AGM) was held on 30th August 2018<br>
from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.<br>
- In the meeting, an overall status of OSGeo was given along with a<br>
discussion on the future activities.<br>
- I talked about the status of the pgRouting project, where I mentioned the<br>
upcoming releases, student contributions and the support from the OSGeo<br>
community.<br>
- I had a chance to look at the ongoing developments in various OSGeo<br>
projects.<br>
- The meeting concluded with a report on the GSoC(2017-18) and GCI(2017).<br>
<br>
*Presented pgRouting at the General Track of the conference*<br>
<br>
- The pgRouting presentation was initially scheduled for 30th August<br>
2018 from 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM.<br>
- I gave the presentation at the allotted time slot, but due to some<br>
confusion, there was a post on twitter saying the presentation was<br>
cancelled and was rescheduled to 31st August from 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM.<br>
- Though I gave the presentation on 30th August, I did not want to miss<br>
out on those who turned up for the presentation on 31st August. So, I<br>
decided to give the presentation again i.e on 31st August from 12:30 PM -<br>
1:00 PM.<br>
- When I went to give the presentation the second time, I was happy to<br>
see more people in the presentation room this time.<br>
- After the presentation, I met people who were interested to develop<br>
and use pgRouting. I was happy to discuss and clarify questions related to<br>
pgRouting that were asked by some of the audience.<br>
- Looks like the confusion turned out to be positive in this case :).<br>
<br>
<br>
*Presented my research work at the academic track conference*<br>
<br>
- The presentation on my research work “Improving path query performance<br>
in pgRouting using a map generalization approach” was on 30th August 2018<br>
from 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM.<br>
- This was the first time I was presenting my work at an international<br>
conference. According to me, I presented better than what I expected and<br>
prepared.<br>
- After the presentation, some of the audience were interested in my<br>
work and we had discussions. This gave me a sense of satisfaction and<br>
motivated me to continue my research work.<br>
- In addition to this, I also received some suggestions and improvements<br>
from the audience which were really helpful. I cannot wait to try out those<br>
new ideas.<br>
<br>
<br>
*Attended sessions and keynotes at the conference*<br>
<br>
- Throughout the conference, there were several parallel sessions. I<br>
attended many sessions which included sessions on GeoNode, QGIS, QField,<br>
PostGIS, Livewire, OSM, and Mapbox.<br>
- I was happy to see open source tools like LiveWire use pgRouting in<br>
their development. I attended the presentation of an academic work namely<br>
“Hierarchical path planning for walking (almost) anywhere” which also used<br>
pgRouting in their work.<br>
- I attended a session named “Fostering pre-university student<br>
participation in OSGEO through the Google Code-in Competition” by Jeff<br>
McKenna and Victoria. In this session, I was happy to congratulate the<br>
students of GCI and how the work done by GCI students at pgRouting was<br>
being used.<br>
- I had a chance to attend keynotes namely “Mapping to end FGM” and<br>
“Zanzibar Mapping Initiative”. I was excited to see the use of GIS and open<br>
source to solve real-world problems.<br>
<br>
<br>
While attending the sessions I gained knowledge about various open source<br>
GIS tools and their developments. In addition to this, I witnessed that<br>
some open source tools use pgRouting which really motivates the pgRouting<br>
team to develop and improve pgRouting. Unfortunately, I cannot attend the<br>
FOSS4G community sprint due to my presentation at another conference in<br>
Germany on 3 September 2018.<br>
<br>
On the whole, attending the FOSS4G 2018 has been a great learning<br>
experience and also gave me a chance to meet many people who were<br>
passionate about open source GIS software. I am grateful to the FOSS4G<br>
organising committee for providing me with the travel grant to attend the<br>
conference and present my work. In addition to this, I thank the OSGeo<br>
community and pgRouting for helping me to represent pgRouting at the<br>
conference. I would also like thank Vicky Vergara and Daniel Kastl for<br>
helping me prepare the presentations. A big shout out to the FOSS4G<br>
organising committee for their massive efforts in organising such an<br>
amazing conference :) !!!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Rohith Reddy.<br>
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Hi Rohith,<br>
<br>
<br>
Thank you for sharing your experiences from FOSS4G 2018. It is really great to see lot of students taking active role in OSGeo. With all your experience gained, I request you to spread the ideas to more students and universities in India and worldwide. Please join and contribute to our open education efforts <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall</a><br>
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<br>
I also want to take the opportunity to say big Thank You all the amazing LOC volunteers who made FOSS4G 2018 possible and also the great Travel Grant Program which enabled wider participation possible.<br>
<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
<br>
<br>
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From: Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Rohith Reddy <<a href="mailto:rohithreddy2219@gmail.com" target="_blank">rohithreddy2219@gmail.com</a>><br>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 10:38 PM<br>
To: pgRouting developers mailing list; <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>; <a href="mailto:foss4gdar@gmail.com" target="_blank">foss4gdar@gmail.com</a><br>
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018<br>
<br>
<br>
Hello all,<br>
<br>
I am Rohith Reddy, an MS student at IIIT Hyderabad and a developer at pgRouting. I attended the FOSS4G 2018 at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The main conference was from 29 August - 31 August 2018. There were two main reasons for me to attend the conference. The first reason was to present my research work done at my university which was accepted at the conference. The second reason was to represent pgRouting at the conference. In this email, I would like to share what I did and the experiences I gained at the FOSS4G 2018.<br>
<br>
<br>
Presented pgRouting at the OSGeo Annual General Meeting<br>
<br>
* The OSGEO Annual General Meeting(AGM) was held on 30th August 2018 from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.<br>
* In the meeting, an overall status of OSGeo was given along with a discussion on the future activities.<br>
* I talked about the status of the pgRouting project, where I mentioned the upcoming releases, student contributions and the support from the OSGeo community.<br>
* I had a chance to look at the ongoing developments in various OSGeo projects.<br>
* The meeting concluded with a report on the GSoC(2017-18) and GCI(2017).<br>
<br>
Presented pgRouting at the General Track of the conference<br>
<br>
* The pgRouting presentation was initially scheduled for 30th August 2018 from 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM.<br>
* I gave the presentation at the allotted time slot, but due to some confusion, there was a post on twitter saying the presentation was cancelled and was rescheduled to 31st August from 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM.<br>
* Though I gave the presentation on 30th August, I did not want to miss out on those who turned up for the presentation on 31st August. So, I decided to give the presentation again i.e on 31st August from 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM.<br>
* When I went to give the presentation the second time, I was happy to see more people in the presentation room this time.<br>
* After the presentation, I met people who were interested to develop and use pgRouting. I was happy to discuss and clarify questions related to pgRouting that were asked by some of the audience.<br>
* Looks like the confusion turned out to be positive in this case :).<br>
<br>
Presented my research work at the academic track conference<br>
<br>
* The presentation on my research work “Improving path query performance in pgRouting using a map generalization approach” was on 30th August 2018 from 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM.<br>
* This was the first time I was presenting my work at an international conference. According to me, I presented better than what I expected and prepared.<br>
* After the presentation, some of the audience were interested in my work and we had discussions. This gave me a sense of satisfaction and motivated me to continue my research work.<br>
* In addition to this, I also received some suggestions and improvements from the audience which were really helpful. I cannot wait to try out those new ideas.<br>
<br>
Attended sessions and keynotes at the conference<br>
<br>
* Throughout the conference, there were several parallel sessions. I attended many sessions which included sessions on GeoNode, QGIS, QField, PostGIS, Livewire, OSM, and Mapbox.<br>
* I was happy to see open source tools like LiveWire use pgRouting in their development. I attended the presentation of an academic work namely “Hierarchical path planning for walking (almost) anywhere” which also used pgRouting in their work.<br>
* I attended a session named “Fostering pre-university student participation in OSGEO through the Google Code-in Competition” by Jeff McKenna and Victoria. In this session, I was happy to congratulate the students of GCI and how the work done by GCI students at pgRouting was being used.<br>
* I had a chance to attend keynotes namely “Mapping to end FGM” and “Zanzibar Mapping Initiative”. I was excited to see the use of GIS and open source to solve real-world problems.<br>
<br>
<br>
While attending the sessions I gained knowledge about various open source GIS tools and their developments. In addition to this, I witnessed that some open source tools use pgRouting which really motivates the pgRouting team to develop and improve pgRouting. Unfortunately, I cannot attend the FOSS4G community sprint due to my presentation at another conference in Germany on 3 September 2018.<br>
<br>
<br>
On the whole, attending the FOSS4G 2018 has been a great learning experience and also gave me a chance to meet many people who were passionate about open source GIS software. I am grateful to the FOSS4G organising committee for providing me with the travel grant to attend the conference and present my work. In addition to this, I thank the OSGeo community and pgRouting for helping me to represent pgRouting at the conference. I would also like thank Vicky Vergara and Daniel Kastl for helping me prepare the presentations. A big shout out to the FOSS4G organising committee for their massive efforts in organising such an amazing conference :) !!!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Rohith Reddy.<br>
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To: Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:suchith.anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">suchith.anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>, Maria Antonia<br>
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Suchith and Maria,<br>
Just wanted to say thanks for your leadership in supporting the Europa Challenge, now titled World Challenge. As you know it has been generously hosted by Finland these past two years. They have paid all expenses for flying in the top six (6) teams to work together in a collaborative mode for a few days. <br>
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This has been a great success! And OSGeo was part of it with significant visibility for their $500 award. This was in addition to the thousands of dollars provided by Finland, Microsoft and other corporate sponsors for this UN-ESA-NASA WorldWind enterprise. <a href="http://worldchallenge.live/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://worldchallenge.live/</a><br>
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Dearly appreciate OSGeo participation!!!<br>
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] My experience at the FOSS4G<br>
2018<br>
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Thanks, Victor! Let us hope to have more possibilities next time. Congratulations for your work. You are doing amazing things.<br>
Best<br>
Maria<br>
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Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung<br>
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A: Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
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Oggetto: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018<br>
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Hello OSGeo,<br>
I am so happy,that ,we at the UniqueMappersTeam-University of Port Harcourt,Nigeria,were not out from sharing FOSS4G 2018.The Travel Grant Program made it possible otherwise,we wont be there!!!!<br>
I had so many from my community of Youthmappers-UniqueMappersTeam and other chapters in Nigeria,who ,applied for the TGP.We needed real travel cost grant,but,the grant coverage of the cost of the conference plus $200 was a good start,and luckly,we got one of slot for Faith Umukoro just the day I pushed her to get an international passport ,which she processed with N25,000.<br>
My next challenge was to raise additional $800 to make up for $1000 cost of flight from Nigeria to Tanzania.We must have someone from my team to present our featured 5 papers on female gender .......mapping.Our university was unable to help out and I had only God's favour and the TSG committee to look up for help.<br>
I got into exchange of mails with the committe....Thank you Alyssa Wright for taking it kind with my mails pushing you and your committee to your wit-end.I sincerely,appreciate you all,Prof Maria,Prof Serena,Regnalvd, as well as Tyler,Racheal and Rebecca of HOT,for coming to our aid!!!!<br>
It was highly impacting on our whatsaap chat groups of more than 200 community members ,sharing pictures and updates from FOSS4G as Faith Umukoro got fully participated and presented our papers with help from You and all our FOSS4G/HOT summit sponsor.<br>
Faith will be sharing with us all she got knowledge wise in a training I am going to fix next week as she comes back.<br>
Thanks to FOSS4G 2018 as I look forward to personally attend FOSS4G 2019 Europe!!!<br>
<br>
May the FOSS be with You All<br>
<br>
Victor N.Sunday<br>
Founder & Team Coordinator/Mentor<br>
UniqueMappersTeam-Port Harcourt,Nigeria<br>
University of Port Harcourt<br>
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On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Victor Sunday <<a href="mailto:victor.sunday@uniport.edu.ng" target="_blank">victor.sunday@uniport.edu.ng</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:victor.sunday@uniport.edu.ng" target="_blank">victor.sunday@uniport.edu.ng</a>>> wrote:<br>
Hello OSGeo,<br>
I am so happy,that ,we at the UniqueMappersTeam-University of Port Harcourt,Nigeria,were not out from sharing FOSS4G 2018.The Travel Grant Program made it possible otherwise,we wont be there!!!!<br>
I had so many from my community of Youthmappers-UniqueMappersTeam and other chapters in Nigeria,who ,applied for the TGP.We needed real travel cost grant,but,the grant coverage of the cost of the conference plus $200 was a good start,and luckly,we got one of slot for Faith Umukoro just the day I pushed her to get an international passport ,which she processed with N25,000.<br>
My next challenge was to raise additional $800 to make up for $1000 cost of flight from Nigeria to Tanzania.We must have someone from my team to present our featured 5 papers on female gender .......mapping.Our university was unable to help out and I had only God's favour and the TSG committee to look up for help.<br>
I got into exchange of mails with the committe....Thank you Alyssa Wright for taking it kind with my mails pushing you and your committee to your wit-end.I sincerely,appreciate you all,Prof Maria,Prof Serena,Regnalvd, as well as Tyler,Racheal and Rebecca of HOT,for coming to our aid!!!!<br>
It was highly impacting on our whatsaap chat groups of more than 200 community members ,sharing pictures and updates from FOSS4G as Faith Umukoro got fully participated and presented our papers with help from You and all our FOSS4G/HOT summit sponsor.<br>
Faith will be sharing with us all she got knowledge wise in a training I am going to fix next week as she comes back.<br>
Thanks to FOSS4G 2018 as I look forward to personally attend FOSS4G 2019 Europe!!!<br>
<br>
May the FOSS be with You All<br>
<br>
Victor N.Sunday<br>
Founder & Team Coordinator/Mentor<br>
UniqueMappersTeam-Port Harcourt,Nigeria<br>
University of Port Harcourt<br>
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On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Rohith,<br>
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Thank you for sharing your experiences from FOSS4G 2018. It is really great to see lot of students taking active role in OSGeo. With all your experience gained, I request you to spread the ideas to more students and universities in India and worldwide. Please join and contribute to our open education efforts <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall</a><br>
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I also want to take the opportunity to say big Thank You all the amazing LOC volunteers who made FOSS4G 2018 possible and also the great Travel Grant Program which enabled wider participation possible.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
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________________________________<br>
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018<br>
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Hello all,<br>
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I am Rohith Reddy, an MS student at IIIT Hyderabad and a developer at pgRouting. I attended the FOSS4G 2018 at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The main conference was from 29 August - 31 August 2018. There were two main reasons for me to attend the conference. The first reason was to present my research work done at my university which was accepted at the conference. The second reason was to represent pgRouting at the conference. In this email, I would like to share what I did and the experiences I gained at the FOSS4G 2018.<br>
<br>
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Presented pgRouting at the OSGeo Annual General Meeting<br>
<br>
* The OSGEO Annual General Meeting(AGM) was held on 30th August 2018 from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.<br>
* In the meeting, an overall status of OSGeo was given along with a discussion on the future activities.<br>
* I talked about the status of the pgRouting project, where I mentioned the upcoming releases, student contributions and the support from the OSGeo community.<br>
* I had a chance to look at the ongoing developments in various OSGeo projects.<br>
* The meeting concluded with a report on the GSoC(2017-18) and GCI(2017).<br>
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Presented pgRouting at the General Track of the conference<br>
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* The pgRouting presentation was initially scheduled for 30th August 2018 from 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM.<br>
* I gave the presentation at the allotted time slot, but due to some confusion, there was a post on twitter saying the presentation was cancelled and was rescheduled to 31st August from 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM.<br>
* Though I gave the presentation on 30th August, I did not want to miss out on those who turned up for the presentation on 31st August. So, I decided to give the presentation again i.e on 31st August from 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM.<br>
* When I went to give the presentation the second time, I was happy to see more people in the presentation room this time.<br>
* After the presentation, I met people who were interested to develop and use pgRouting. I was happy to discuss and clarify questions related to pgRouting that were asked by some of the audience.<br>
* Looks like the confusion turned out to be positive in this case :).<br>
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Presented my research work at the academic track conference<br>
<br>
* The presentation on my research work “Improving path query performance in pgRouting using a map generalization approach” was on 30th August 2018 from 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM.<br>
* This was the first time I was presenting my work at an international conference. According to me, I presented better than what I expected and prepared.<br>
* After the presentation, some of the audience were interested in my work and we had discussions. This gave me a sense of satisfaction and motivated me to continue my research work.<br>
* In addition to this, I also received some suggestions and improvements from the audience which were really helpful. I cannot wait to try out those new ideas.<br>
<br>
Attended sessions and keynotes at the conference<br>
<br>
* Throughout the conference, there were several parallel sessions. I attended many sessions which included sessions on GeoNode, QGIS, QField, PostGIS, Livewire, OSM, and Mapbox.<br>
* I was happy to see open source tools like LiveWire use pgRouting in their development. I attended the presentation of an academic work namely “Hierarchical path planning for walking (almost) anywhere” which also used pgRouting in their work.<br>
* I attended a session named “Fostering pre-university student participation in OSGEO through the Google Code-in Competition” by Jeff McKenna and Victoria. In this session, I was happy to congratulate the students of GCI and how the work done by GCI students at pgRouting was being used.<br>
* I had a chance to attend keynotes namely “Mapping to end FGM” and “Zanzibar Mapping Initiative”. I was excited to see the use of GIS and open source to solve real-world problems.<br>
<br>
<br>
While attending the sessions I gained knowledge about various open source GIS tools and their developments. In addition to this, I witnessed that some open source tools use pgRouting which really motivates the pgRouting team to develop and improve pgRouting. Unfortunately, I cannot attend the FOSS4G community sprint due to my presentation at another conference in Germany on 3 September 2018.<br>
<br>
<br>
On the whole, attending the FOSS4G 2018 has been a great learning experience and also gave me a chance to meet many people who were passionate about open source GIS software. I am grateful to the FOSS4G organising committee for providing me with the travel grant to attend the conference and present my work. In addition to this, I thank the OSGeo community and pgRouting for helping me to represent pgRouting at the conference. I would also like thank Vicky Vergara and Daniel Kastl for helping me prepare the presentations. A big shout out to the FOSS4G organising committee for their massive efforts in organising such an amazing conference :) !!!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Rohith Reddy.<br>
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