<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.21999rem;font-family:"Source Sans Pro","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-feature-settings:"dlig","liga","lnum","kern";line-height:3rem;font-size:2.05714rem;padding-top:0.78001rem;color:rgb(55,61,73)">FedGeoDay 2019</h1><blockquote style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(55,61,73);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0.66001rem 1rem 1rem;font-feature-settings:"kern","onum","liga";margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.33999rem;font-size:1rem;font-style:italic;border-left:3px solid rgb(160,170,191)">Here is the first event of the new year for <a href="http://osgeo.us/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(160,170,191)">OSGeo.US</a>. I hope you can join us.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Guido</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.66001rem;font-feature-settings:"kern","onum","liga";margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.33999rem;color:rgb(55,61,73);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,serif;font-size:14px">Mark your calendars for <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">FedGeoDay 2019 in Washington D.C. on Thursday, January 31</span> and <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">sign up now at <a href="https://fedgeo.us/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(160,170,191)">FedGeo.US</a></span>. Registration is only $25 for Federal, NGO and Academic attendees.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.66001rem;font-feature-settings:"kern","onum","liga";margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.33999rem;color:rgb(55,61,73);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,serif;font-size:14px">The purpose of FedGeoDay is to promote and grow the Open Ecosystem within the Federal Agency Community. There is no proprietary software or data company growing this ecosystem. We in and of these communities have to do it ourselves. Guido Stein (<a href="http://osgeo.us/Applied" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(160,170,191)">OSGeo.US/Applied</a> Geographics) and Eddie Pickle (Radiant Solutions) are chairing the event and working with a great program committee including Tod Dabolt (US Dept of Interior), Bryan Lane (DNI), Joel Schlagel (USACE), Josh Campbell (ex State Dept/Sand Hill Geo), Anthony Calamito (Mapbox), and Marc Vloemans (LocationTech).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.66001rem;font-feature-settings:"kern","onum","liga";margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.33999rem;color:rgb(55,61,73);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,serif;font-size:14px">There will be <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">many participants from the Open Source Community contributing</span> to the program including people involved in Open Mapping, Data Science (AI/ML), Web Development, Open Data, Disaster Response & Resilience and Open Source Geospatial Software development. There will be <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">a great deal of Federal, NGO and Industry insight</span> from from speakers and panelists inclusing a <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">keynote from Carter Christopher of NGA</span> and panels lead by thought leaders from the Dept of Interior, DNI, In-Q-Tel, US Census Bureau, and Mapbox.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.66001rem;font-feature-settings:"kern","onum","liga";margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.33999rem;color:rgb(55,61,73);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,serif;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Please pass along this information to your friends and colleagues today</span>. FedGeoDay is a unique event for the Open Source Geospatial Community in the DC area and a wonderful chance for you to network, get programmatic and technical ideas, and learn how to build and grow your programs and projects using Open Source Technologies.</p><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Source Sans Pro","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-feature-settings:"dlig","liga","lnum","kern";margin-top:0px;font-size:1.95313rem;margin-bottom:0.183584rem;padding-top:0.816416rem;line-height:3rem;color:rgb(55,61,73)"><a id="gmail-Register_Nowhttpsfedgeous_15" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(160,170,191);text-decoration-line:underline"></a><a href="https://fedgeo.us/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(160,170,191)">Register Now</a></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0.66001rem;font-feature-settings:"kern","onum","liga";margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.33999rem;color:rgb(55,61,73);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,serif;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Many thanks to our sponsors for supporting our community</span> including Crunchy Data, Radiant Solutions, OSGEO, Azavea, LocationTech, T-Sciences.</p></div>