Version 0.6 Sept. 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “PostGIS Feature Frenzy” by Paul Ramsey.

Version 0.5 Sept. 9, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Large-Scale Geospatial Analysis with Open-Source h3-indexer” by Madie
• “Convolution PCA: Engineering independent intensity and texture features” by John Hogland
• “State of GeoNode” by Giovanni Allegri
• “Mapping the Future in 3D: Youth, Data, and Open Platforms” by Elodie Nix
• “Advancing the Python Geospatial Stack: Building Community Across Domains” by Taylor M. Oshan, Sergio Rey
• “Grounded: Local Datum Mapping with DroneDeploy” by Ben Scholer, Ryan Hippenstiel
• “Rising Waters, 3D Worlds: Cesium-OSM-Powered Flood Simulations” by Michael Mann
• “Geospatial Open Source and Selling the Contemporary Enterprise Software Experience” by Brian Timoney
• “Refining Culvert Detection in Elevation Derived Hydrography with Deep Learning” by Robert Dzur, Federico Kurten
• “Environment setup and predictive modeling workshop” by John Hogland
• “What’s new in 3D Tiles” by Jake Adelgren
• “Cataloging USACE Models in the Cloud: A STAC Experiment” by Seth Lawler, Abdul Raheem Siddiqui
• “Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: addressing real world requirements” by Simone Giannecchini

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Securing Open Geospatial Systems in a High-Risk World” by Ashley Fairman

Version 0.4 Aug. 12, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Cataloging USACE Models in the Cloud: A STAC Experiment” by Seth Lawler, Abdul Raheem Siddiqui

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Is Zarr the new COG?” by Jarrett Keifer, Julia Signell (Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Lake Audubon → Nov. 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Regency Ballroom B)
• “STAC Best Practices” by Matthew Hanson (Nov. 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m.)
• “State of STAPI: A community tasking standard” by Matthew Hanson, Jarrett Keifer (Nov. 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Lake Thoreau → Nov. 4, 2025, 2 p.m., Regency Ballroom B)
• “Remote Sensing for Plants that are Hard to See” by Michele Tobias (Nov. 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom B → Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Lake Audubon)

Version 0.3 Aug. 12, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “VirtualiZarr: cloud-optimized access to archival-format datacubes without duplication” by Julia Signell, Chuck Daniels (Nov. 4, 2025, 1 p.m., Lake Audubon → Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom B)
• “Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata with stac-geoparquet” by Pete Gadomski (Nov. 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “STAC Best Practices” by Matthew Hanson (Nov. 4, 2025, 1 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)
• “STAC Beyond Rasters” by Julia Signell (Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 1 p.m.)

Version 0.2 Aug. 12, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Academic Birds of a Feather” by Michele Tobias
• “Geospatial Technology Radar: A Report Against a Turbulent 2025 Backdrop” by Lauren Frederick
• “Making Postgres Central in Your Data Center” by Bruce Momjian
• “Hand Drawn Maps” by Michele Tobias
• “Modeling loss with FOSS: Python workflow evolution” by Dominic Daniels
• “Astral: A spatial extension for the decentralized web” by Taylor M. Oshan, John R Hoopes
• “Estimating trail bridge impacts on rural populations with Python” by Adele Birkenes
• “Open-Access High-Resolution data for a Livable Planet” by Brian Blankespoor
• “Dengue Geospatial Prediction Tools for Epidemic Response and Resource Allocation” by Garrett Tate
• “Taming Dependency Hell: Effortless Dev Environments with Pixi” by Thomas Maschler
• “Keynote: To Be Determined” by Paul Ramsey
• “Reproducing geographic analysis studies as open science project-based learning” by Joseph Holler, Samuel Barnard, Matthew Mills
• “PostGIS What's New” by Paul Ramsey
• “Growing GRASS” by Corey White
• “OGC APIs with GeoServer: implementation, availability, and next steps” by Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini
• “Opening Up Urban Form and Development Trends” by Margo Atkinson
• “Enterprise-Grade Open Source: Operational Insights from CoreSpatial Deployments” by Jason Newmoyer
• “GDAL's new command line interface - and other updates” by Dan Baston
• “DuckDB + Rasters: Hexagons For Blazing Fast Analytics” by Isaac Brodsky, Sina Kashuk
• “Teaching FOSS4G: Sharing Local Data for Improved Community Decision Making” by Christopher J. Seeger, Bailey Hanson
• “Broadband Data QuickStart” by W. Nick Pappin
• “pyplaces-a Python Package for Retrieving Open Places Data” by Ted Banken
• “SpaceTimeIDs: Built for Boundaries, expandable to Digital Twins” by Joshua S Campbell
• “What’s new in CesiumJS and the 3D Geospatial Ecosystem” by Luke McKinstry
• “PostGIS performance hacks” by Regina Obe
• “Resampling Without Regrets: The Nonary Tree for EO Grids” by Thomas Maschler
• “Mapping Community Capital: Revealing Local Gaps in Rural Access” by Christopher J. Seeger, Bailey Hanson
• “Developing Methodologies to Union Overlying Building Footprint Datasets” by Jason Kaufman
• “GRASS Meets Longest Flow Paths, Shortest Compute Times” by Huidae Cho
• “Remote Sensing for Plants that are Hard to See” by Michele Tobias
• “OpenAccess for OpenSource: Writing and Publishing for the FOSS4GNA Community” by Jessica Breen
• “All Latitudes, Longitudes, and Heights will be Changing” by Galen Scott
• “The Democratization of Databases” by Bruce Momjian
• “Geospatial Mission Operations with the Multi-Mission Geographic Information System” by Dr. Fred J. Calef III, Paul Ramirez
• “Introduction to pgRouting” by Regina Obe
• “The Maze of Postgres Options” by Bruce Momjian
• “Supporting FOSS4G on Boston University's High Performance Cluster” by Dennis Milechin
• “From Metadata to Pixels: Loading STAC Data the Smart Way” by Thomas Maschler
• “Data Horizons With Postgres” by Bruce Momjian
• “Space2Stats - exploring meso-scale geospatial data” by Benjamin Stewart
• “MapStore, Development of an Extension” by Tobia Di Pisa, Stefano Bovio
• “What's going on? An introduction to diagnosing PostgreSQL systems.” by Mark Wong
• “RescueMap‑AI: Open Source Geo‑AI for Disaster Response” by Mohammed Bilal Ahmed
• “Spatial SQL Birds of a Feather” by Regina Obe
• “Will Postgres Live Forever?” by Bruce Momjian
• “VIPER Map Server; map data aggregation for NASA lunar missions” by Tamar Cohen, David Lees

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Cataloging USACE Models in the Cloud: A STAC Experiment” by Seth Lawler, Abdul Raheem Siddiqui (Nov. 4, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “Publishing Maritime AIS Big Data via GeoServer, Databricks, and Azure” by Nuno Oliveira, Simone Giannecchini (Nov. 5, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 2:30 p.m.)
• “GRASS Addon Development with Python” by Corey White (Regency Ballroom B → Reston A)
• “Exploring Cloud-Native Geospatial Formats: Hands-on with Raster Data” by Jarrett Keifer (Lake Anne → Regency Ballroom A)
• “Dynamic Aggregations With pg_tileserv” by Brad Andrick (Nov. 4, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Reston ABC → Nov. 4, 2025, 4 p.m., Lake Fairfax)
• “State of MapStore” by Tobia Di Pisa, Stefano Bovio (Nov. 5, 2025, 1 p.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 11:30 a.m.)
• “QGIS Model Designer” by Randal Hale (Reston B → Regency Ballroom B)
• “The Power of Community and Collaboration in Open-Source Innovation” by Timothy Steward (Nov. 5, 2025, 11 a.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
• “Geoconnex: Anchoring AI in Reality with the Internet of Water” by Benjamin Webb, Colton Loftus (Nov. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “Securing Open Geospatial Systems in a High-Risk World” by Ashley Fairman (Nov. 5, 2025, 11 a.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “Introduction to GeoNode, the open source geosptial CMS” by Giovanni Allegri (Lake Fairfax A → Lake Fairfax B)
• “Taking a proprietary process and move it to FOSS4G” by Randal Hale (Nov. 5, 2025, 11:30 a.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “Precision in Language and the Future of “Little Data” Analytics” by Joel Schlagel (Nov. 5, 2025, 1 p.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
• “eoAPI: open-source cloud-native geospatial data cataloging and distribution” by Alex Mandel (Lake Anne → Regency Ballroom A)
• “Piggybacking on QGIS Processing Framework to Build Scientific Software Tools” by Abdul Raheem Siddiqui (Nov. 4, 2025, 2 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Mapping Democracy: Visualizing the Voice of a Million Americans” by Stephen Smith (Nov. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom B → Nov. 5, 2025, 11:30 a.m., Lake Thoreau)
• “Revolutionizing Elections with GIS” by John Ross (Nov. 5, 2025, 2 p.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 11 a.m.)
• “Building digital urban models for MapStore and Cesium” by Tobia Di Pisa, Stefano Bovio (Nov. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “MapLibre projects, in one status update” by Yuri Astrakhan (Nov. 5, 2025, 1 p.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 10:30 a.m.)
• “Handling 3D Data in QGIS” by Martin Dobias (Nov. 4, 2025, 1 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)
• “STAC Best Practices” by Matthew Hanson (Nov. 4, 2025, 3:30 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “Optimizing Complex Webmaps using Vector Tiles, Cacheing, and PostGIS” by Annie Cartas (Nov. 4, 2025, 11 a.m., Reston ABC → Nov. 4, 2025, 3:30 p.m., Lake Fairfax)
• “Mergin Maps and QGIS for Field Surveys” by Peter Petrik (Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “QGIS Birds of a Feather” by Randal Hale (Nov. 4, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Scalable Architecture for Distributed Spatiotemporal Analytics” by Prashant Swarnapuri (Nov. 5, 2025, 11 a.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 10:30 a.m.)
• “Vector tiles with GeoServer” by Andrea Aime (Reston A → Lake Fairfax A)
• “Building Open Source Teams” by Bruce Momjian (Nov. 5, 2025, 10:30 a.m. → Nov. 5, 2025, 1 p.m.)
• “Cartography for Professional Quality Maps in QGIS” by Michele Tobias (Reston B → Lake Fairfax A)
• “STAC Beyond Rasters” by Julia Signell (Nov. 4, 2025, 4 p.m. → Nov. 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m.)

Version 0.1 July 24, 2025

We released our first schedule!