At the end of August, the Firenze Fiera Congress & Exhibition Center in Florence, in the heart of Tuscany, will host FOSS4G 2022. After the Corona-related cancellation of the conference in Calgary in 2020 and the online conference from Buenos Aires in 2021, the next FOSS4G conference will take place in Europe again in person after Bucharest 2019.
Florence, the city on the Arno, which bears the epithet “La Bella”, has a lot to offer: As the heart of Tuscany, it is a culinary stronghold, has a rich history, in the course of which it housed Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Galileo Galilei; Florence is now the eighth largest city in Italy and was chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, “La Bella” indeed.
We are looking forward to the days between August 22 and 28. The core conference will traditionally be framed by 2 workshop days before and a subsequent code sprint. During the core conference, lectures will be presented in parallel in 7 rooms and in an online channel. An orientation for the visitors are the main topics “Transition to FOSS4G”, “State of Software”, “Use cases & applications”, “Open Data” and “Education”, because each contribution is assigned to one of these topics.
We at terrestris will also be represented at the conference with these contributions:
- Connecting tribes: how we connected the GRASS GIS database natively to GeoServer (Room 6 / 24.08. / 12:15 / Markus Neteler, Carmen Tawalika, Marc Jansen, Markus Metz & Anika Weinmann)
- Stable OSS software in production; the case of MapProxy (Room 6 / 24.08. / 11:30 / Till Adams & Daniel Koch)
- The Masterportal project – Highly customizeable feature-rich WebGIS (General Online / 25.08. / 12:00 / Hannes Blitza & Markus Besenfelder)
- The GeoStyler Project – Status Report (Room 5 / 26.08. / 9:00 / Till Adams, Daniel Koch & Jan Suleiman)
- Making free climate and weather data more usable – status, ideas and products resulting from the research project “FAIR” (Room 6 / 26.8 / 10:00 / Till Adams & Marc Jansen)
A novelty, which will probably remain in the future thanks to Corona, is the possibility to participate in the conference both on site and online. Those who want to save costs and time will participate online, but will miss the atmosphere at the conference itself, which is already legendary for FOSS4G’s. So follow us, we look forward to welcoming you on site – off to Florence!
