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Toggle navigation About FOSS4G About FOSS4G Spread the Word Help Us Organize Privacy Policy Logo Use Guidelines Calls for Papers Academic Track CFP Regular Sessions CFP Workshop Proposals Map Gallery Submissions Attending Code of Conduct Registration Venues Accommodations Discounts and Grants Getting to/around Portland Schedule Schedule Overview General Sessions Workshops Social Events Code Sprint Field Trips Sponsor FOSS4G Sponsors Call for Sponsors Sponsorship Packages Media Partner Package Sign Up Login Portland, Oregon, USA • September 8th - 13th, 2014 Sign up for announcements. Watch the Recordings. '; View the Map Gallery Latest News The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software . FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Schedule Six days of presentations, workshops, and great conversation. Conference Schedule Overview Workshops General Sessions Social Events Travel & Accomodations Information for your visit. Accomodations Visiting Portland Mike Bostock The New York Times Mike designs interactive graphics for The New York Times. He is also the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards, and TopoJSON, an extension to GeoJSON that encodes topology. Sarah Novotny NGINX Sarah Novotny is a technical evangelist and community manager for NGINX. She has run large scale technology infrastructures as a Systems Engineer and a Database administrator for Amazon.com and the ill fated Ads.com. In 2001, she founded Blue Gecko, a remote database administration company with two peers from Amazon. Blue Gecko, was sold to DatAvail in 2012. She’s also curated teams and been a leader in customer communities focused on high availability web application and platform delivery for Meteor Entertainment and Chef. Novotny regularly talks about technology infrastructure and geek lifestyle. She is also a program chair for O'Reilly Media's OSCON. Al Shaw ProPublica Al Shaw is a news applications developer at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative news outlet based in New York City. Equal parts designer, developer and reporter, he has covered campaign finance, schools, disaster recovery and other topics. Before joining ProPublica, Shaw was designer/developer at Talking Points Memo and creator of TPM's popular PollTracker application. Shaw's interactive maps surrounding FEMA's response to Hurricane Sandy was honored with the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. His work has also garnered awards from the Society for News Design, the Online News Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Conference ~ Points of Interest View More Don’t panic: FOSS4G cheat sheet Tuesday, September 9, 2014 | by K.Bott Tomorrow starts a fantastic three days of talks and sessions and networking and general geo-you-name-it. We are so excited to have you all here (and attending virtually, dear live stream viewers); here’s a quick list to get you rolling on day one. Conference details BOF sessions: Find the carefully curated data on the . . . A (partial) PDX Survival Guide Tuesday, September 9, 2014 | by K.Bott TL/DR: (1) Our public transit is excellent, take it! (2) Go beyond the Convention Center area to see the best of PDX (3) We’re building a crowdsourced map of Portland goodness; find places to go and add the places you find. Welcome to PDX, FOSS4G! Here’s a little hint . . . Booth Tour Preview #2 Saturday, September 6, 2014 | by cmacwhorter This is part two the booth tour (part one). We encourage you to continue the booth tour in person for interesting and exciting geo-conversations, and we look forward to seeing you next week in Portland. Boundless Swing by the Boundless booth (#16) for insights into . . . It’s (a)live! – Map Gallery, livestream link Saturday, September 6, 2014 | by K.Bott Map fans, the 2014 FOSS4G Map Gallery is live. (Ta-da!) A stunning 88 maps available for your viewing pleasure. After you’ve appreciated the work of your fellow maptastic colleagues, we ask that you use your sharp-but-sweet critical eyes and your strong opinions to help us pick the 2014 People’s Choice Award. . . . Increasing access to FOSS4G Friday, September 5, 2014 | by K.Bott FOSS4G is an incredible gathering of open source geospatial developers and users from all over the globe; the event prides itself on being “the world’s premier open source geospatial conference.” Each year the hosting delegation works incredibly hard to put on a fantastic conference, and attendees come away with . . . Archives September 2014 (6) August 2014 (4) July 2014 (2) June 2014 (3) May 2014 (4) April 2014 (3) March 2014 (3) February 2014 (1) January 2014 (1) Sponsors -- is a production of the OSGeo organization. Site built by CUGOS using Wordpress ....