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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>
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<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>
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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>
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<li>Geosolutions Group</li>
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