FOSS4G:UK Local 2022 - Leeds (Platform)
Local Venue Chairs: Mike West & Tomas Holderness
Sponsors
We are very grateful for the support of Addresscloud and JBA for sponsoring FOSS4G:UK Local at this event.
Programme
The schedule for Thurs 17th Nov 2022 is below - for the full programme for all venues, with details of speakers and talk descriptions, see here.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Coffee and local welcome | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Nick Bearman | Opening and welcome |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Anita Graser (online) | Shaping Open Spatial Data Science |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tim Sutton (online) | 20 Years of QGIS: Successes and Failures of a Global Phenomenon |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break (coffee and networking) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Dennis Bauszus | Composing Software: Spatial for the JAMstack generation |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Peter Wells | Mergin Maps: an open source platform for your field data collection |
| 12:30 - 13:20 | Lunch (food provided) | |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Chris Larkin | Prioritisation of Obstruction Removal on Active Travel Networks (Lightning Talk) |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Clara Peiret-Garcia | Developing an inclusive accessibility index for UK cities. (Lightning Talk) |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Rachael Sanderson | Experimenting with Social Media data using Open Source Software (Lightning Talk) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Oliver Burdekin | FOSS meets not FOSS (Show & Tell) |
| 14:10 - 14:40 | David Wood | APIs for assessing flood risk anywhere in the world |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Tomas Holderness | Serverless Tile Services in the Cloud |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Break (coffee and networking) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Michael West | PostGIS Out-DB Rasters in AWS Batch |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Regina Obe (online) | PostGIS Vision: Past, Present, and Future |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Nick Bearman | Wrap up |
| 16:45 onwards | Local arrangements |
Registration
The event is free to attend but we strongly encourage attendees (and/or their employers) to make a donation of £20 (more if you can afford or less if you can’t) - see here for details.
Location & Travel
Platform
New Station St
Leeds
LS1 4JB
Website: https://bruntwood.co.uk/our-locations/leeds/platform/
Getting there: Platform is adjacent to Leeds train station meaning that it is excellently served by both train and bus services.
We encourage everyone to travel by public transport/car share/under their own steam if possible.