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Initial Thoughts on FOSS4G North America

FOSS4G North America (FOSS4GNA) wrapped up yesterday, closing out with another thought-provoking keynote by Paul Ramsey. Paul’s talks on the “economics of open source” have evolved over the years and, while this talk certainly discussed such economics, it was so much more. Paul is one of the best speakers you will see and his talks are well-crafted. Despite that, this talk had a “thinking out loud” feel that gave a sense that…

https://blog.geomusings.com/2023/10/26/initial-thoughts-on-foss4g-north-america/

Initial Thoughts on FOSS4G North America

FOSS4G North America (FOSS4GNA) wrapped up yesterday, closing out with another thought-provoking keynote by Paul Ramsey. Paul’s talks on the “economics of open source” have evolved over the years a…
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Raúl Nanclares 🍜
Raúl Nanclares 🍜
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I spent the last two days in an event held by the INEGI (National Institute of Statistics and Geography) for state and municipal governments.

In just two days, and less than 10 talks (less than half actually talked about geostuff), I saw several areas of the federal government showing use cases with Mapserver, GeoWebCache, QGIS and Open Data Cube. Arcmap was only mentioned once, when talking about OGC web services. We are living a silent revolution in Mexico.
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Raúl Nanclares 🍜
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I've been trying to push the people who is developing systems and platforms using foss4g to participate in international events but so far nobody wants to talk their work because of the language barrier. The cadastre of Mexico City has been migrated from a combination of propietary software to PostGIS, GeoServer and QGIS, a there are a lot more success stories in Mexico (the city of Guadalajara, the State of Sinaloa, the State of Nuevo Léon, Monterry City, the state of Campeche, etc
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Raúl Nanclares 🍜
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The list goes on an on.... We (the people at QGIS Spain, QGIS Mexico, QGIS Argentina, QGIS Bazil) compiled some of the most popular projects here:

https://github.com/sigdeletras/qgis-case-studies

GitHub - sigdeletras/qgis-case-studies: Relación de referencias, enlaces y otros con ejemplos de casos de usos de QGIS

Relación de referencias, enlaces y otros con ejemplos de casos de usos de QGIS - GitHub - sigdeletras/qgis-case-studies: Relación de referencias, enlaces y otros con ejemplos de casos de usos de QGIS
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Jody Garnett
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@rnanclares this is why we should bring foss4g to mexico city, or foss4gna to mexico city :)
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Raúl Nanclares 🍜
Raúl Nanclares 🍜
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The problem right now is the communities around foss4g in Mexico have almost disappeared after the pandemic. This year we had a meeting with someone from a big company in New Mexico, and he proposed organizing foss4g somewhere in the US near the border, I proposed Ensenada in Baja California. QGIS Mexico has some experience organizing events but nothing as big as foss4g
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Bill Dollins
Bill Dollins
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@rnanclares @jodygarnett Understood. I think there is a desire to make something like this happen. I will bring this up in our retro in a couple weeks.
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Jody Garnett
Jody Garnett
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@rnanclares honestly some of the best foss4g events are small :)

You may not see it much here because we are spread out so much, but in Europe the local chapters have really good small #foss4g conferences
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Ian Turton
Ian Turton
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@rnanclares I would suspect that the Spanish speaking foss4g world would be big enough to support a regional meeting, if not a global one
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