While I have known about Public Laboratory for a while now, I am finally taking the plunge into the world of balloon mapping. Last month, Public Laboratory had a Kickstarter for their Balloon Mapping Kit. While the Kickstarter has ended, you can still purchase your own balloon mapping kit for $85. Now, I ended up acquiring […]
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FOSSGIS 2012
FOSSGIS 2012 was held in Bauhaus Stadt Dessau last week, which made for a three-train trek from Ilmenau for me. The location of the conference was at the Hochschule Anhalt, which offers an Online Masters program in GIS, right beside the Dessau Hauptbahnhof (main train station). The organizers had many signs set up all over […]
Breaking Stuff
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
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
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 […]