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<p>November 20th - Dec 2nd 2022 we're having an event called
FOSS4G Nashville. This is the 5th event like this and the first
in two years (for some reason). <br>
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<p>November 30th is a field trip around Nashville and learning
about a mapping project with the Vanderbilt Institute for
Spatial Research. <br>
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<p>Dec 1st and 2nd will be speakers covering Free and Open Source
Software for Geo with subjects ranging from QGIS to Geoserver to
LIDAR. Do you want to speak? Register! Can't attend in person?
You can attend Virtually! Want to sponsor? You can do that also.
The night of December 1st is a social event that is free for
attendees. <br>
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<p>Keynote: Howard Butler - <b>Serve Data Not Services</b></p>
<p><i>Gone are the days of buying a 2U server and sticking it in a
rack in a closet next to an air conditioner. What was once
organizational excess compute capacity to provide on-demand
network services is now metered and measured in the cloud by
the same administration that inventories the office supply
cabinet. Excessive middleware is decidedly out of fashion, and
concepts like Cloud Native Geospatial, with its focus on cloud
optimized formats and JSON metadata to drive desktop and cloud
applications alike are taking hold. </i><i><br>
</i></p>
<p><i>Howard Butler, president of Hobu, Inc. and leader of the
PDAL software project, will talk about formats, organization,
federation, archive, and frustration in the process of getting
data to and from the cloud. Howard Butler is the founder and
president of Hobu, Inc., an open source software consultancy
located in Iowa City, Iowa that focuses on point cloud data
management solutions. He is an active participant in the ASPRS
LAS Committee, a Project Steering Committee member of both the
PROJ and GDAL open source software projects, a contributing
author to the GeoJSON specification, creator of the Cloud
Optimized Point Cloud format, and a past member of the OSGeo
Board of Directors. With his firm, Howard leads the
development of the PDAL and Entwine open source point cloud
processing and organization software libraries. </i></p>
<p>As things happen we're posting to: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/20221201-Nashville-foss4g"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/20221201-Nashville-foss4g</a></p>
<p>Submit a paper: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free
moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1QZ1VkeTGVL9mfhGZdl8lX6K2dDC83vLDoS1Tf7oDpA5Ejw/viewform"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1QZ1VkeTGVL9mfhGZdl8lX6K2dDC83vLDoS1Tf7oDpA5Ejw/viewform</a></p>
<p>Register: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free
moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-nashville-tickets-392509254747"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-nashville-tickets-392509254747</a></p>
<p>Cost: $25 (Can't swing the cost? Give us a shout). <br>
</p>
Sponsors now include: <br>
<ul>
<li>Hobu Inc </li>
<li>North River Geographic Systems, Inc </li>
<li>Locate Press </li>
<li>Vanderbilt Institute for Spatial Research </li>
<li>Vadose Industries <br>
</li>
<li>Geosolutions Group</li>
</ul>
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