[Projects] [TOSprint] Join OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 at BIDS ‘23

Mon Jun 19 02:18:26 PDT 2023

Dear OSGeo community,

OSGeo Community Sprint will come to Vienna (Austria) in November 2023 
[1] as part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event. Come join us!

When:

- Mon 2023-⁠⁠11-06 09:00 -⁠⁠ Thu 2023-11-09 12:00

Where:

- Venue: Austria Center Vienna [3] [15]

Interested? So read more about why & where & when...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of 
organizing code sprints for developers of Free and Open Source GIS software.

Since 2009, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) [4] has been 
organizing a yearly Code Sprint of the "C Tribe" OSGeo projects, which 
has evolved into a full OSGeo Community Sprint and all "Tribes" are 
included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS, 
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL, pygeoapi and many more get 
together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial 
problems & to have fun.

Our last face-to-face OSGeo Community Sprint was held with success in 
Minnesota [5] in 2019.
In 2020, due to the pandemic, we canceled the Athens code sprint and 
organized a virtual code sprint [6].
In 2021 and 2022 we organized code sprints during FOSS4G events and 
joint code sprints with OGC and Apache Foundation.

2023 marks the return of the OSGeo Community Sprint which will return to 
Europe after Vienna (2014)[7], Paris (2016) [8] and Bonn (2018)[9]. This 
makes it possible to embed European developers and users. The tradition 
started in 2009 in Toronto [10]. Find a list of the history of code 
sprints at [11].

About BiDS
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BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities and 
government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase latest 
technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of space and 
big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to discuss and 
present the most recent innovations and challenges encountered in the 
context of big data from space. The 2023 edition of BiDS will focus not 
only technologies enabling insight and foresight inferable from big data 
from space. Together, we want to emphasize how breakthrough space data 
driven technologies impact on society’s grand challenges, such as 
climate change and the green transition.

The event, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) [12] together 
with the European Union Satellite Center (SatCen) [13] and the Joint 
Research Center (JRC)[14], will take place at the Austria Center Vienna 
[15], and counts with the support of the partners FFG [16], Austria in 
Space [17] and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria [18].

OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 in Vienna
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The international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 6 to 9 
November 2023. We expect about 60 developers from all over the world to 
come from various OSGeo projects [4].

The code sprint will take place at Austria Center Vienna [3] [15], as 
part of the Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) [2] event.

Accommodations
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Working zones will be created for you in the dedicated room area. A wide 
variety of drinks and snacks will be provided by OSGeo and sponsors. 
Participation in the code sprint is free of charge. As a participant, 
you are responsible for your own accommodation.

Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue, many of which are 
within walking distance.

Registering for the OSGeo Community Sprint
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In order to register for the OSGeo Community Sprint you need to register 
for the BiDS event [2]. More information about Big Data from Space and 
the registration link once opened, can be found under 
bigdatafromspace2023.org [2].

Afterwards, please don't forget to sign up in the OSGeo wiki at our 
OSGeo Community Spint 2023 page:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Participants

This is an important step for planning of catering and coordination.

The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in one 
or more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all about 
programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing 
– all this is also important for projects so everyone is cordially
invited to attend the code sprint!

The Community Sprint Organizing Team is looking forward to seeing you there!

If you have questions/comments/ideas please let us know.
Would you like to sponsor the event? Read more about sponsoring the 
event [19]
Please contact tzotsos at osgeo.org directly.

See you in Vienna in November 2023!

The OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 Team

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023
[2] https://bigdatafromspace2023.org/
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.2343/16.4144
[4] http://www.osgeo.org
[5] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019
[6] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020
[7] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
[8] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016
[9] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018
[10] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009
[11] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints
[12] https://www.esa.int/
[13] https://www.satcen.europa.eu/
[14] 
https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/joint-research-centre_en 

[15] https://www.acv.at/en/
[16] https://www.ffg.at/en
[17] https://austria-in-space.at/en/
[18] https://www.bmk.gv.at/en.html
[19] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023#Sponsoring

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See you in Vienna at OSGeo Community Sprint 2023
6 to 9 November 2023

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos