Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the FOSS4G Conference here in Denver, Colorado. As has been noted elsewhere, it was a high-energy event loaded with quality technical content. With a time slot at the end of the day, I sought to change gears and speak about the role the cultural values of […]
As a buzz-worthy term “Big Data” has a lot going for it: easy to remember, vague enough that a shared clear meaning is always in doubt, and its own O’Reilly conference. Like programmers describing the merits of their software only in terms of the number of lines of code, talking about big-ness merely in terms […]
With the FOSS4G conference in Denver five weeks away, one takeaway is already clear: geospatial open source is drawing serious interest from a wider variety of sectors than we have seen in the past. My hunch is that in an ever-more competitive landscape with straitened budgets, there are three elements in particular that exert a […]