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✈️FOSS4GE 2025 Travel Grants – applications open!

We’re excited to announce that the Travel Grant Programme (TGP) for FOSS4G Europe 2025 is now accepting applications! 🎉

Are you passionate about open-source geospatial technologies? Do you want to join the FOSS4G community in Mostar this July? The TGP is here to help!📝

❗Submit your application by April 30 at 2025.europe.foss4g.org/registr
#FOSS4GE #FOSS4G #mostar #osgeo

Rhetorical question from Matthias Kuhn:

"If you did not pay for a software or service, does that mean it is worthless (did not provide you with any value)?"¹

Side question:

"Does price correlates with quality?"¹

From the #FOSS4G panel: Changing the mindset of "Open Source is just for those who can't afford to pay licenses"

¹ skewed by my memory, hence not an exact quote

Florent Gravin from Camptocamp talking at #FOSS4G about #SDI and #OpenData: what is different, what is common and how to unify both. In particular he talks also about #geOrchestra.

- common: both are about data
- different: SDI is "geo data", second about open data
- tricky part: some data is geo data, some is open data, some is both, some is neither

Main point: We do not want two data catalogs, one able to handle both is desirable