FOSS4G:UK Local 2023 - Glasgow (University of Glasgow)
Local Venue Chairs: Piet Gerrits, Guy Solomon
Registration
We are very happy to announce that due to recent sponsorship the Glasgow event is now FREE. Register with discount code FOSSGLA to take advantage of this opportunity. If you would still like to donate to OSGeo:UK and FOSS4G:UK, you can do so here. If you have already registered for the Glasgow event and would like to request reimbursement, please contact Petrus Gerrits (p.gerrits.1@research.gla.ac.uk) or Guy Solomon (Guy.Solomon@glasgow.ac.uk).
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Programme - Thursday 7th September 2023
Morning YouTube stream - Afternoon YouTube stream
Italics denote national events, which will be streamed to watch together
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:30 | - | Arrival |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Local organisers | Local welcome and overview |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Helen McKenzie | Keynote: Geospatial Evangelism Slides YouTube |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Brian Johnston [Ordnance Survey] | Accessing OS Downloads API with R |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Amy Taylor [Cawdor Forestry] | Tree Rings; Visualising forest plan data with R |
| 10:45 - 10:50 | Ana Basiri [University of Glasgow] | Geospatial Data Science at Glasgow |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | - | Coffee break |
We then have two parallel sessions:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Mike Spencer [Smart Data Foundry] | Beyond the *IMD - filling the gap |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Junaid Abdul Jabbar [University of Cambridge] | Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia: open-source technologies and sustainability |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Paul Georgie [Geo Geo] | Unreal Geospatial: Rise of the Game Engines |
or:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Steven Kay | Introduction to using Blender for 3d cartography (Workshop) |
If you would like to participate in Steven’s workshop, please bring your own device and install Blender 3.5+ beforehand - although no prior knowledge of Blender is required. You can bring your own geoTIFF if desired, but some ready-made DEMs and textures will also be made available. A GPU is not required, but a mouse is strongly recommended.
This is followed by:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12:45 - 13:45 | - | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Liam O’Connor [Compass Informatics] | MapServer in an asset management system |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Robert Coup [Koordinates] | Kart: Practical Data Versioning for rasters, vectors, tables, and point clouds |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Ujaval Gandhi [Google] | Keynote: Geospatial Careers YouTube |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | - | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Panel Session | FOSS4G 2013 Panel Session: 10 years on YouTube |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | National Chair | Wrap up by National Chair |
| 16:45 | - | Conference Close |
Call for Talks
The call for talks is now closed, but if you are still interested in presenting contact Guy Solomon (Guy.Solomon@glasgow.ac.uk) or Petrus Gerrits (p.gerrits.1@research.gla.ac.uk) and there may be space in the programme for lightning talks or announcements.
Sponsors
We are very grateful for the support of University of Glasgow for sponsoring FOSS4G:UK Local 2023 at this event.
Location & Travel
Senate Room
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
We encourage everyone to travel by public transport/car share/under their own steam if possible.