John Bryant

That was an insane time! We were in the Blue Mountains at the peak of it, we had the car packed and ready to evacuate on 2 separate occasions.

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QGIS used by the Ogiek of Mount Elgon in Kenya. "Using two forms of technology (one very new and the other very old) to validate the spatial data collected using Mapeo — a computer mouse and a stick (here wielded by Richard Kiara). [Photo credit: Rudo Kemper]" Source: https://terralingua.org/langscape_articles/the-wealth-of-our-lands-celebrating-boititap-korenyo-with-the-ogiek-of-mount-elgon-kenya/

GIS used by the Maasai of Ngorongoro in Tanzania. "'We have been fighting for so long but we haven't used the right tools to help us achieve what we want, it's about time that we can use these kinds of tools to help us for our benefit and future generations. We now have the tool Mapeo to mark our land of Ngorongoro' testimony by Mapeo training participant. [Photo credit: María Alvarez Malvido]" Source: https://awana.digital/blog/ngorongoro-is-not-replaceable-the-maasai-community-mapping-in-the-face-of-forced-evictions-and-fortress-conservation-policies

A conversation with @johnwbryant.bsky.social made me realize how #QGIS plays a somewhat underappreciated role in all of our work supporting Indigenous communities in participatory mapping. So I'd like to shout out QGIS for being an amazing FOSS tool that we benefit from daily!

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Thanks for your wonderful keynote!

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Happy #PostGISDay, to those who observe.

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FOSS4G Perth 2024 - YouTube FOSS4G Perth 2024 was held on 23 October 2024 in Fremantle, Western Australia, hosted by the ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium.

Hey everyone! Nice to see you again :)

So, we ran a small one day #FOSS4G in Perth last month, we just posted the presentations on YouTube yesterday:

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Thanks to our sponsors for making it possible!

foss4g-perth.org

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