19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST on Tuesday the 7th of April 2020. This will be our first ever online event. We have space for about 100 people to watch the talks. A sign up form will go out in the early-April Geomob newsletter, and we will invite people to the live event based on whoever signed up first. Sorry we don’t have a more fair way to do it.
The goal of Geomob is to provide a forum to learn and exchange ideas about any interesting services and projects that deal with location. Everyone working in or curious about the location space or with location services is welcome. You absolutely do not need to be some sort of GIS expert (though GIS experts are of course welcome as well).
Our format for the evening will be as close to the format of our in-person events as possible. That said, please bear with us as we are doing this for the first time.
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Before the event please make sure you have Zoom installed.
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at 18:45 BST / 19:45 CEST we will send an email to the first 100 people on the sign-up list. The email will contain the URL for logging into the Zoom meeting. Please do NOT share the URL with anyone, as it means you will potentially be taking someone else’s spot and possibly letting in trouble makers. That would create a lot of very, very bad geo karma for you, which would be a pretty heavy burden for you to shoulder. The world has enough challenges already.
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When you enter the meeting you will first be in what Zoom calls “the waiting room” and a moderator will have to manually approve you. Have patience! It’s a good chance to sample your #geobeer.
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Once in the meeting, attendees will be muted and there will not be a chat. With 100 attendees it just won’t work. If you want to share your opinion about the event please do so on twitter using the hashtag #geomob.
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at 19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST we begin the talks with a very brief introduction
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Each speaker will present his/her slides, speaking for 10-15 minutes.
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If you have a question for the speaker please send it by email to questions @ thegeomob.com.
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After the speaker finishes his or her talk a moderator will ask one or two of the questions submitted by the audience. Hopefully in this way we can have good quality, concise questions. Sorry if your question doesn’t get asked. Please just follow up one on one (or post it on twitter).
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After the final talk we will vote by twitter poll for the best speaker. The winner will receive a SplashMap and unending glory (see the full list of all past winners).
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Following the event we will unfortunately NOT be able to head to a pub for discussion and #geobeers. Feel free to enjoy a #geobeer while watching the talks.
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Unless there is some sort of unplanned technical problem, we will post a recording of the event shortly after the event. UPDATE: The videos have been posted!
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In general, please come with the right attitude and have patience as it is our first ever online event. If all goes well we will have more in the future.
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JP Mens will tell us about open-source, privacy-focused, self-hosted, location tracking service OwnTracks. Note: we unfortunately failed to record this talk, but here is another talk by JP about OwnTracks.
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Monika Swiderska will present a talk entitled “The power of keeping it simple”. Watch the video.
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Minlue Wang from Shipamax. Watch the video.
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Chris Barrington Brown of Cunning Running will discuss some of the work they do around threat analysis mapping. Watch the video.
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Dāvis Viļums will show off his All the Streets project. Watch the video.
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Michael Langbein from DLR will give an overview of the work being done by the RIESGOS(Multi-risk analysis and information system components for the Andes region) project. Watch the video.
Geomob is organized by Ed Freyfogle and Steven Feldman.
Thanks
Geomob would not be possible without speakers and sponsors. Over the years we have had so many fantastic talks, spanning the range from inspirational to informative to weird and wacky. See the list of all the past speakers. Please get in touch if you would like to speak at a future Geomob.
Please share the event details with everyone you know who may find the evening interesting.
If you can’t attend (or even if you can) be sure to sign up fory the monthly Geomob mailing list, where we announce upcoming events.
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