[postgis-devel] in a few days PostGIS is getting 20 years old

[Martin Davis]

Astrid,

What a wonderful idea!  I really hope you can uncover some
interesting artifacts and stories for your talk.  And I hope to be able to
see an English version as well.  And perhaps the PostGIS project can host
the content on the website, for posterity?

This is slightly tangential, but GEOS is a core component of PostGIS and
was in fact developed under Paul Ramsey's sponsorship in order to provide
geometric functions for PostGIS.  So here's the early history of JTS and
GEOS:

https://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-of-jts-and-geos.html

I can uncover a few photos of the main participants if that's of interest.

Martin

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:25 AM Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
wrote:

> Hello to the PostGIS team,
>
> I reach out to you because PostGIS will have its 20th birthday at May
> 31st, 2021.
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2001-May/000000.html
>
> I will talk about 20 year of PostGIS at the FOSSGIS Konferenz at the
> beginning of june. It is the german language FOSS4G.
> https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/
>
> I already reached out to Paul for some background information.
>
> And now I would like to ask you - the team - whether you have something
> to share what I could mention.
>
> I am thinkng of
> - quotes
> - photos of team events
> - nice stories
> - your history how you got involved
> - birthday thoughts
> - what does PostGIS mean for you?
> - something else that I could mention in the talk
> - challenges for the future
> - why is PostGIS great
> - something else
>
> It would be great if you could send me some information.
>
> I love PostGIS and I am happy to make this presentation. It will be in
> german. But Maybe i also could do an english version.
>
> See you aand thanks for all your great work.
>
>
> Astrid
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> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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