Another 3 years have passed, and the FOSS4G, the international conference of the Open Source Geo-Community, will once again take place in Europe on its 3-year cycle. After Bonn in 2016, the conference will be held in Bucharest this year, for the first time in an Eastern European country.

After the rather long journeys to Boston in 2017 and Dar Es Salaam in 2018, we are pleased to be able to send two participants to the conference this year, Johannes Weskamm and Till Adams. In addition to the professional exchange, a FOSS4G is always an opportunity to maintain personal relationships with the various international players in our community.

terrestris is supporting the organizers of the conference as a sponsor again this year, and we will also enrich the program of the conference with 2 presentations. We will present open source tools that complement our core technology. With the presentation “SHOGun, GeoServer & QGIS Integration: Manage WebGIS Applications from your Desktop” we will present our QGIS extension. This allows to manage GeoServer layers as well as SHOGun layers and applications via QGIS. We see this extension as an important component of system integration between WebGIS and Desktop GIS.
In a 2nd presentation, together with Christian Mayer of the OSGeo-Community, we will present for the first time the GeoStyler project, a generic graphical style editor for geodata, which was developed last year in cooperation with the company meggsimum. The GeoStyler has already been prototypically integrated as a plug-in into GeoServer and various browsers, and the GeoStyler is already used in some of our projects within SHOGun. With the presentation, we hope above all to inspire a larger community for the project and thus build a broader basis for further development. With GeoStyler you can create styles for OpenLayers and GeoServer (among others) via an appealing interface.

In addition to our own contributions, we are scheduled as co-speakers for the following two contributions:

• From paper to pods: Revolutionised fibre planning process at Deutsche Telekom AG with FOSS4G components
• When building, maintaining & continuously improving a SDI isn’t enough: DevOps processes to the rescue
• State of GeoExt

These contributions were submitted by a consortium that works closely together in the area of building a geodata infrastructure for fiber optic network expansion.

We would be pleased to meet as many customers, acquaintances, friends and business partners as possible, and also you, in Bucharest at the Romanian National Theater at the end of August. You can register here.