As most people who have read my tweets know, I break things. I break things a lot. Lately I’m even paid to break a particular database with two particular pieces of software. I do it well, and I’m thankfully on great terms with one of the developers, so things are getting fixed. But when I [...]
SummerCamp 2011 aka #sc2011 and organization
Aug 22nd, 2011
As I posted a few weeks ago, I’m in charge of organizing an entire conference. I’ve had a ridiculous amount of help from my boss and Mekki, who I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet. There is unsurprisingly a large amount of organization that is required for a conference – even a one day affair. [...]
FOSSLC and me
Aug 10th, 2011
At the start of May, a week before my 28th birthday and a few days before my first trip to New York City, I lost my job with DM Solutions. It sounds like terrible timing, but it actually wasn’t so much. Jason and I had already talked about finances and living together, it was just [...]
Technical Manual to Making Hearts!
Feb 8th, 2011
Guest post by Christy! Inspired by Gretchen Peterson’s Valentine’s Day stickers, I started on an adventure to create pink heat-shaped maps using FOSS programs. Using Quantum GIS and Inkskape, I created SVG images that are easy to manipulate and export to raster images. 1. Need some data Natural Earth has small scale data available for [...]
Open Data Sources
Oct 7th, 2010
A few weeks ago, I got convinced, pretty easily I must admit, to be the Co-Chair of the OSGeo Ottawa Chapter. Apparently this doesn’t require me to do a lot of work, but it still scares the hell out of me. I can talk, a lot, but I generally don’t tend to lead a group [...]
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