Tom Kralidis

Tom Kralidis is with the Meteorological Service of Canada and longtime contributor to FOSS4G. He leads and contributes to numerous projects in the Geopython ecosystem. He is the 2024 recipient of the Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the FOSS4G community.

Tom is the co-chair of the OGC API - Records Standards Working Group, chair of the WMO Expert Team on Metadata, and serves on the OSGeo Board of Directors. He is the 2024 recipient of the Sol Katz award.


Sessions

11-17
09:00
180min
Diving into pygeoapi Workshop
Tom Kralidis, Paul van Genuchten, Angelos Tzotsos, Just van den Broecke, Antonio Cerciello

pygeoapi is an OGC Reference Implementation supporting numerous OGC API specifications. This workshop will cover publishing geospatial data to the Web using pygeoapi in support of the suite of OGC API standards.

Workshop - Intermediate Level
WF610
11-17
13:30
180min
Doing Geospatial with Python
Tom Kralidis, Paul van Genuchten, Angelos Tzotsos, Just van den Broecke, Antonio Cerciello

This workshop will provide an introduction to performing common GIS/geospatial tasks using Python geospatial tools such as OWSLib, Shapely, Fiona/Rasterio, and common geospatial libraries like GDAL, PROJ, pycsw, as well as other tools from the geopython toolchain.

Workshop - Beginner Friendly
WF610
11-20
15:30
25min
pygeometa project status
Tom Kralidis

pygeometa project status presentation. Come and find out the latest news on the project as well as future plans, and how to get involved!

State of software
WG404
11-21
09:00
25min
OGC CITE Runner - a new runner for checking compliance with OGC standards
Tom Kralidis, Ricardo Garcia Silva

ogc-cite-runner is a software to help automate OGC CITE compliance testing for geospatial web applications. It can be used either as a GitHub action or standalone. Learn more about it at https://osgeo.github.io/ogc-cite-runner/

AI, Data Science & Analytics
WA220
11-21
10:00
25min
pycsw project status
Tom Kralidis, Paul van Genuchten, Angelos Tzotsos

pycsw project status presentation. Come and find out the latest news on the project as well as future plans, and how to get involved!

State of software
WA220
11-21
11:00
25min
pygeoapi project status
Tom Kralidis, Angelos Tzotsos, Just van den Broecke

pygeoapi project status presentation. Come and find out the latest news on the project as well as future plans, and how to get involved!

State of software
WG126
11-21
12:00
25min
OSGeo and OGC MoU update
Tom Kralidis

Open Software and Open Standards are complementary pieces of the geospatial ecosystem. In 2022, OSGeo and OGC signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that aims to benefit the mission and goals of both organizations. This presentation will provide an update on collaboration, reference implementations, code sprints, and future plans.

Community, Collaboration & Impact
WG308 TE IRINGA
11-21
18:30
45min
AGM - OSGeo
Vicky Vergara, Tom Kralidis, Angelos Tzotsos, Marco Bernasocchi, Jeroen Ticheler

OSGeo Global Annual General Meeting

AGM
WG403