FOSS4G 2025 Auckland

Blue Water Black Magic An exhibit at the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui A Tangaroa that explores innovated design, #teamwork, #leadership, success, and a battleground. We are positive there was #mapping involved, and definitely #geospatial considerations. You are free to dive into these #stories when you join us all for a #social conference kick off event, aka icebreaker, on Tue 18 Nov from 6:30pm. This free and casual event is included in your conference registration. Come along. Meet some new people and catch up with familiar faces. Enjoy food and drink. Drop a hello in the comments to let everyone know you'll be there. #auckland #maritime #maori #sailing #newzealand #foss4g #osgeo

One of the workshops scheduled for this Nov 👇 Full list can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gkSUCkij 📝

EXTENSION! The Standard Pricing tier has been extended New closing date: Fri 3 Oct, 11:59pm NZST Prices will go up after that Register today! https://lnkd.in/gwCUbt2r Also, if you need travel assistance, let us know. If you aren't sure if you need help but think you might, contact us. Don't wait. https://lnkd.in/gMCiMQXG #foss4g #osgeo #geospatial #conference #travel

🚨Round 2 of the Travel Grant Program EXTENDED! New closing date: Fri 26 Sep at 11:59pm NZST Submit your application! 📥

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Today is the day. 12 hours remaining for Standard Pricing. Join us for a week of open-mind time on #geospatial open source data and tools, all with the view of sustainability, resilience, inclusivity, clarity, navigation, and oh so much more. https://lnkd.in/gwCUbt2r Image by https://lnkd.in/gCKkRy2G

The full schedule is live! Activities happening from Mon 17 Nov to Sun 23 Nov are in the interactive program here: https://lnkd.in/ggeZ4PAA Check it out! 🔔Workshops are top notch quality for a very affordable price (read: they are filling up so get your skates on) ⏰Standard pricing for the conference closes this Friday at one minute to midnight NZST (read: grab yours before the price goes up) 📍Our venue host is AUT School of Future Environments Photo by https://lnkd.in/gbMWubw5

✨ Welcome to Auspatious, a sponsor of FOSS4G 2025! Supporting open geospatial technologies! Auspatious focuses on data wrangling and infrastructure to build an organised base for your project; software development, again, structure; cloud infrastructure for which there are many options and they know them all; and technical leadership, bring all this together. Founded by Alex Leith GAICD, who also happens to be Co-Chair of this year's global FOSS4G meetup, Auspatious dives into projects of all sizes and, of course, is a champion in the open source geospatial community. ☺️ https://auspatious.com/ Make sure you say 🤝 in Auckland! #geospatial #community #opensource #data #foss4g #global #software #cloud #mentor #coach #organisation

🌟Welcome to Geoscience Australia, a Silver sponsor of FOSS4G 2025! ✨ Geoscience Australia (GA) is a community contributing to tangible outcomes that improve life for everyday Australians, and it has a long history of doing so. The Australian Government organisation is closing in on 125 years and continues to empower it's community to innovate. Overall, it aims to make a positive impact through collective knowledge of all of Earth's systems - geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. GA actively and continuously participates in a great number of cooperative projects at all levels of government and industry; this includes, as welcome smile for us, acknowledging the value of FOSS. In addition, it also celebrates the next generation with activities like the upcoming #EarthScienceWeek. Geoscience Australia's remit also extends beyond the Australian landmass to Australia's vast marine jurisdiction. Their projects, partners, and impact are impressive and too numerous to list off in this post so please have a read here: https://www.ga.gov.au/ Be sure to say hello to GA representatives at FOSS4G 2025 this November. #geoscience #geospatial #earthscience #australia #data #informed #community #digitalearth #mapping

📢Announcing our keynote speakers! Meet Selene Yang. A vibrant and visionary Latin American queer feminist, #community organiser, #mapmaker, and Co-Founder of Geochicas. Her #research focuses on analysing the process of collecting, editing, and curating open #geospatial #data in OpenStreetMap from a feminist perspective. Currently, she is an energetic force in her role at Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Specialist in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She holds a PhD in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and is a Research Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab and Stanford University. Selene is also part of the FAIR network for feminist AI, Tierra Común for data decolonization, and the Communication and Public Policy Research Center of the School of Communication of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Hear Selene's talk in Auckland this Nov - https://lnkd.in/gwCUbt2r