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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

💡🧩 FOSS4G Observatory Spotlight: GDAL GDAL plays an important role in the FOSS4G ecosystem by enabling interoperability across geospatial data formats and applications. It is an open source translator library for raster and vector geospatial data. It […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

GDAL plays a central role in the FOSS4G ecosystem by enabling interoperability across geospatial data formats and applications.

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

💡🧩FOSS4G Observatory Spotlight: GeoTools GeoTools 35.0 is out! GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides standards-compliant methods for geospatial data in GIS applications. 👉 geotoolsnews.blogspot.com/2026/06/g… […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Another way of #FOSS funding is through grants 💰, such as the @NSF grant for @grassgis (👉 grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_09_06_nsf…) ✨ 📢 #FOSS4G communities, take a look at the OpenSourceforScienceFund grant program os4science.org

screen capture of the front page of the grant launch news

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

The #FOSS paradigm fosters many advantages well known in the community & even beyond. Yet one of the most fertile one might be its high adaptability & interoperability within the #FOSS4G ecosystem to answer increasingly complex requirements. Thus, it has lead […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

It is admirable to observ how the #FOSS way value&the 💪 of building 💻 solutions following the #FOSS principles is gaining momentum within 🌍 organisations. In 2025, 🇺🇳 UN officially 🚀 the Open Source United, a UN-wide initiative to coordinate and scale📈 open […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot of the main page of the FOSS4G Observatory showing the FOSS4G projects interconnected

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

#FOSS is expensive 💸 ... when you don't do it right. According to one of the latest reports📝 of the @linuxfoundation the #ROI for companies that contribute back to the #FOSS projects they depend on is between 2-5X, while for the ones passively consuming (and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

front page of the Linux report mentioned in the post

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Since @CopernicusEU was known as #GMES, there was a❓in the back of everyones' 🧠: will we have the capacity to fully benefit from the Sentinels? A lot has happened since the S-1A🚀 and 2 decades later, the direction of full exploitation of Copernicus data is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

The *F* in #FOSS4G stands for *free*, as “free speech, not free beer” @fsfe 📢 Check out this great 💰 👩‍💻 opportunity from a longtime sponsor and promoter of #foss4g solutions: @oslandia 👉 paid code review contracts for the #opensource community (C++ | Qt | […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

February is a special month 💌 but for the geospatial community it is even more. It is @osgeo month! Yet this year is special 👑 OSGeo turns 20! 🎂 It is hard to imagine what the #FOSS4G ecosystem would have looked like without OSGeo and it is definitely worth […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

#BiDS25 is a 🇪🇺 conference happening every 2 years under the joint ☂️ of the @EUCommission JRC, #ESA and #satcen . In 2025, the conference was held in the beautiful city of Riga 🇱🇻 and brought together ➕ 700 participants, with a multitude of ✨ great talks […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

picture from the presentation of the FOSS4G Observatory @BiDS'25

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

@fosdem 2026 held in #Brussels 🇧🇪 has just concluded and even thought it is not #geospatial dedicated, it is definitely worth browsing through its sessions 👉 fosdem.org/2026/schedule, such as the 'CRA in practice' or 'Funding the FOSS ecosystem'. If […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screen capture of the FOSDEM 2026 webpage

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

In the western 🌎 part of the world, 🗓️ 14th of February is celebrated as ♥️Valentin’s day ♥️ @fsfe put a wonderful spin ✨ 💞 on it and made it the “I Love Free Software Day” Check it out 👉🏿 fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs

screen capture of the webpage of the quiz prepared by the Free Software Foundation Europe for the I Love Free Software Day

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

The critical importance 🧨 of the foundational #FOSS in the digital infrastructure on top of which we build our services and products, be it geospatial or not, is no secret and we are still to find the ⚖️ between community sustainability and commercial […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

github readme screen capture with the announcement that minIO is under maintenance

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

Podcasts have gained 📈 popularity in the last years and not without good reason.👂🏾 to experts sharing their experiences&views can be a wonderful way to spend a commute 🚗 or a relaxing 🚶‍♀️🌳. One great 🎙️ that we can’t recommend enough is @MapScaping […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Keeping an 👁️ on the ✨ developments in the geospatial open source 🌍 gives one a ☀️ disposition! @lutraconsulting + @hobu brought point cloud #lidar comparison natively to #qgis with support 🤝 from companies&gov #septima, #Klimadatastyrelsen and #GEUS Check 👉 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

image credits: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saber-razmjooei_lidar-qgis-activity-7419007890319065088-va3D?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAAPEiA0BNGS0OP6gHHwx85fD54FnTwlEezQ

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

#Opensource has been around for decades ⌛ 🦕 and it's without a doubt an essential piece of our 🌍 . It is with great pleasure to note that its fundamental principles, as well as its maturity are regarded as a 💪 opportunity for 🇪🇺 technological sovereignty […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

In 2024, @gdal launched the first user survey and the feedback mattered! 🗣️ GDAL did a massive CLI modernisation that users are already enjoying from 3.11 release! 💻✨By 31st of December, you have the opportunity to share your feedback through the 2025 GDAL […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

🎤👩🏼‍🏫 Today we presented FOSS4G Observatory at #GeoEarth Conference, which marked 125 years of geography education at University of Bucharest (Romania) 🌍🎓 . Our poster highlighted the platform’s role as a digital infrastructure for open-source geospatial […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

🔧 The open source geospatial ecosystem drives innovation and remains a key topic of the @geospatialorg seminars. 📊 “State and Prospects of the Open Source Geospatial Software Ecosystem: October 2025” covers 2024–2025 updates (GeoServer, STAC, MapStore) and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

🗺️ Curious about where contributors of the open source geospatial tools coming from? The FOSS4G Observatory (@OSS4gEO) maps the global distribution of contributors to open geospatial projects like @qgis, @geoserver, @grassgis, and many more. Explore the map […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Geographical distribution of contributors to open source geospatial projects from FOSS4G Observatory.

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

🎤🗓️ Our team had the privilege of presenting the #FOSS4GObservatory at the geo-spatial.org seminars in Chișinău, Moldova 🇲🇩. It was a fantastic opportunity to share the latest developments of our project, to highlight how open-source geospatial […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025

"Space: The final frontier." 🌌 📢 💠 The HD digital scan (600dpi 48bit) of the framed front page of the @grassgis manual '87 edition, signed by William Shatner aka Captain Kirk, is now preserved in the Zenodo.org open access repository […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

👉 FOSS4G Observatory (ex-OSS4gEO) depends on your support! We welcome contributions in every form and shape, either making FOSS4G Observatory's underlying software better, adding new projects to the FOSS4G Observatory database or correcting/completing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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