Some Favourites from FOSS4G 2009

Posted on Sunday 22 November 2009

It’s been about a month since FOSS4G in Sydney and I’ve been trying my best to not spend anytime doing GIS related stuff other than my day job – partly because my wife is sick to death of me spending time wedded to my laptop and not to her.

Anyway – I have a pack of notes that I’m just looking over and rather than writing these up inadequately I thought it would be easier to post some links to the presentations online – these are just a few of the things I enjoyed at FOSS4G this year.

  • Claude Philipona – a really valuable case study on the implementation of spatial systems in the cloud.
  • Mike Pumphrey – There seemed to be a lot of  (new found?) love for SLD at the conference.
  • Volker MischeVolker is an extremely talented geezer, not only was he an asset to the conference team, but his presentation was a great talking point at the event – I remember a great comment from the audience ‘just leave your relational baggage at home’
  • Tim Schaub – only for the codeswarm video…. – Not being an OpenLayers developer I was very interested to learn about the protocal, strategy and format classes
  • Simon Greener – It was good to be able to go back over his slides and pick out his pearls of wisdom. Simon combines years of experience and advanced presentation skills to provide a concise set of information on each slide! Not.
  • Peter Fraser – Erratic and bizarre but very enjoyable

Just a taste from this years conference.

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