Next week Joe and I will be out in San Diego for FOSS4G-NA 2019. This’ll be my first one since I think 2012. There’s always an excellent turnout and strong base of good folks to catch up with. This year they’ve put together a B2B and Government Theme day to kick it off, which to my knowledge is a new thing for an event typically focused on the eponymous free, open source, and community-driven projects.

I thumbed through the agenda to pick out some topics I’m interested in catching this year:

• Open source for utilities and telecom
• OpenStreetMap and WikiData
• Open source in higher education
• PDAL
• OpenDroneMap
• “Digital twin” technology for infrastructure