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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

The registration for BiDS closes on Oct 23rd.
https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/registration

If you are planning to join the community sprint, please make sure you 
have registered both to BiDS and on the community sprint wiki page.

We hope to see you in Vienna.


On 6/19/23 12:18, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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
> ------------------
>
> 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
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> -----------------------------
> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
> **********************************************************************
> See you in Vienna at OSGeo Community Sprint 2023
> 6 to 9 November 2023
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023
> **********************************************************************
>
>

-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos