[Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018
Victor Sunday
victor.sunday at uniport.edu.ng
Sat Sep 1 11:51:22 PDT 2018
Thank You Prof,look forward to greater possibilities come FOSS4G 2019!!!
Best Regards
Victor
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
> Thanks, Victor! Let us hope to have more possibilities next time.
> Congratulations for your work. You are doing amazing things.
> Best
> Maria
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> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
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> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Da: Victor Sunday <victor.sunday at uniport.edu.ng>
> Data: 01/09/18 15:56 (GMT+03:00)
> A: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Cc: Rohith Reddy <rohithreddy2219 at gmail.com>, discuss at lists.osgeo.org,
> geoforall at lists.osgeo.org, foss4gdar at gmail.com
> Oggetto: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018
>
> Hello OSGeo,
> 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!!!!
> 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.
> 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.
> 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!!!!
> 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.
> 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.
> Thanks to FOSS4G 2018 as I look forward to personally attend FOSS4G 2019
> Europe!!!
>
> May the FOSS be with You All
>
> Victor N.Sunday
> Founder & Team Coordinator/Mentor
> UniqueMappersTeam-Port Harcourt,Nigeria
> University of Port Harcourt
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> On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Victor Sunday <
> victor.sunday at uniport.edu.ng> wrote:
>
>> Hello OSGeo,
>> 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!!!!
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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!!!!
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> Thanks to FOSS4G 2018 as I look forward to personally attend FOSS4G 2019
>> Europe!!!
>>
>> May the FOSS be with You All
>>
>> Victor N.Sunday
>> Founder & Team Coordinator/Mentor
>> UniqueMappersTeam-Port Harcourt,Nigeria
>> University of Port Harcourt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Suchith Anand <
>> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rohith,
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 https://lists.osgeo.or
>>> g/mailman/listinfo/geoforall
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>>
>>> Suchith
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Rohith
>>> Reddy <rohithreddy2219 at gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2018 10:38 PM
>>> *To:* pgRouting developers mailing list; discuss at lists.osgeo.org;
>>> foss4gdar at gmail.com
>>> *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] My experience at the FOSS4G 2018
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Presented pgRouting at the OSGeo Annual General Meeting*
>>>
>>> - The OSGEO Annual General Meeting(AGM) was held on 30th August 2018
>>> from 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.
>>> - In the meeting, an overall status of OSGeo was given along with a
>>> discussion on the future activities.
>>> - I talked about the status of the pgRouting project, where I
>>> mentioned the upcoming releases, student contributions and the
>>> support from the OSGeo community.
>>> - I had a chance to look at the ongoing developments in various
>>> OSGeo projects.
>>> - The meeting concluded with a report on the GSoC(2017-18) and
>>> GCI(2017).
>>>
>>> *Presented pgRouting at the General Track of the conference*
>>>
>>> - The pgRouting presentation was initially scheduled for 30th August
>>> 2018 from 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM.
>>> - 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.
>>> - 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.
>>> - When I went to give the presentation the second time, I was happy
>>> to see more people in the presentation room this time.
>>> - 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.
>>> - Looks like the confusion turned out to be positive in this case :).
>>>
>>>
>>> *Presented my research work at the academic track conference*
>>>
>>> - 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.
>>> - 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.
>>> - 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.
>>> - 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Attended sessions and keynotes at the conference*
>>>
>>> - Throughout the conference, there were several parallel sessions. I
>>> attended many sessions which included sessions on GeoNode, QGIS, QField,
>>> PostGIS, Livewire, OSM, and Mapbox.
>>> - 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.
>>> - 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.
>>> - 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 :) !!!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rohith Reddy.
>>>
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