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The State of the Geospatial Community: A Followup
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Several blogs have expressed thoughts on the state of the geospatial community during the last week. It started with the GIS Dev Cafe entries one, two and conclusion on the GIS community. You then have Vector One, Dave Bouwman and The Memory Leak's comments on the geospatial community. All entries are worthed the read. In last November, I shared my own personal thoughts on what is the geospatial community. I was interview by the Very Spatial team (at a moment when I was quite sick - I'm surprised the interview has not come out worst than it is), you can listen to the 30-minutes podcast which includes insights from David Maguire of ESRI, Kavita Pandit, current President of AAG, Kathleen Ridgely, New Media Director of National Geographic Magazine and from the Very Spatial crew themselves. I finally took the time to listen to it (I still have 15 VS episodes to catch up). I believe this topic is very interesting. What are we as a community? Is our diversity a strength or fragmenting us? How can we improve our community to help fulfill its potential?
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Some weeks ago, Very Spatial asked for questions to answer over their great podcast. They mentioned my personal question during their 69th episode. Here's the question, and my tentative to answer it below. Of course, your input is more than welcomed! ""What is the geospatial community?" I ask "what", because I feel it includes the many sides of the question: - What's a community?
- What is the geospatial community?
- Who is in the geospatial community?
- Who is not in the geospatial community?!
- Why are some geospatial professionals not in the geospatial community?
- Should every geospatial professional be part of the geospatial community?
- What does the geospatial community do to be the geospatial community?
- Is the geospatial community geospatial?
- Is the geospatial community special?
- Is the geospatial community a Good Thing (tm)?
- Does it matter that a geospatial community exists?
- What is the present of the geospatial community?
- What is the future of the geospatial community?" Tentative answers below.
Slashgeo: Slashgeo's Third Year Anniversary
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Three years already! Life is full of surprises when you look for them (sometimes even when you don't look!), as Slashgeo's main enthusiast, I have learned a huge deal in the process. I hope and believe Slashgeo.org is a useful website for the geospatial community. We're unique because our small team reads and selects the most pertinent geonews for our users out of tens of geoblogs entries everyday. We also offer original content. We're ad-free and as much transparent as possible.
The stats? Not sure they matter as much a user participation, but for the curious ones: over 10 million hits in three years, 1,700 registered members, thousands of unique IP addresses reached everyday, 3,200 geonews "stories" published so far (surprising even to me!), almost 3,000 user comments shared (I admit a lot by me as story followups).
I planned many important updates for Slashgeo's website, namely upgrading to Slashdot's AJAX code for faster comment sharing and no page reloads, however, Slashcode's CVS tags are not up to date and my developer is unavailable until next January, so I fear we'll have to wait another few months at minimum.
The most important element of this year for me? New Slashgeo.org volunteer editors joining me since about a year ago (see related stories below). Sincere thanks to this small team, with a special thank you to Lennox (username lxnyce) which published hundreds of stories in a year and was instrumental to keeping Slashgeo relevant by publishing geonews in my absence (parental leave since January). I'm now back behind my office desk, but user contributions (e.g. submitting stories and sharing comments) are more than welcomed, they are required for the success of the website. I sincerely hope you like the service we provide - the geospatial sector is a pretty exciting playfield!
The stats? Not sure they matter as much a user participation, but for the curious ones: over 10 million hits in three years, 1,700 registered members, thousands of unique IP addresses reached everyday, 3,200 geonews "stories" published so far (surprising even to me!), almost 3,000 user comments shared (I admit a lot by me as story followups).
I planned many important updates for Slashgeo's website, namely upgrading to Slashdot's AJAX code for faster comment sharing and no page reloads, however, Slashcode's CVS tags are not up to date and my developer is unavailable until next January, so I fear we'll have to wait another few months at minimum.
The most important element of this year for me? New Slashgeo.org volunteer editors joining me since about a year ago (see related stories below). Sincere thanks to this small team, with a special thank you to Lennox (username lxnyce) which published hundreds of stories in a year and was instrumental to keeping Slashgeo relevant by publishing geonews in my absence (parental leave since January). I'm now back behind my office desk, but user contributions (e.g. submitting stories and sharing comments) are more than welcomed, they are required for the success of the website. I sincerely hope you like the service we provide - the geospatial sector is a pretty exciting playfield!
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