I really love the move of most sharing events to online as well as IRL. Thanks to Patrick Van Abbema and the IIBA® Ottawa-Outaouais Chapter for presenting, "Using AI in Business Analysis," which I was able to join from home in Calgary, last night.

I don't like it when chatbots apologise. No, you're not *actually* sorry. You just know that's the appropriate next thing to say.

Few potential bugs are *completely* unknown.

Open-sourcing their work is such a neat idea.

Join us for the next OSGeo Alberta Chapter monthly meetup, Feb 7th, from 7 - 9pm. Devin Bartley, GISP, will present: Building a cloud-hosted open source GIS system using QGIS, PostgreSQL, Geoserver, and Open Layers. meetup.com/osgeo-alberta-…

No matter how many times I see our stuff moving around on Mars, it never fails to excite me.

Call for Conference #FOSS4G2025 We are happy to announce the call to organize our international #FOSS4G "Free and Open Source Software for #Geospatial Conference 2025". We accept bids from any region of the globe. wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_20… wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conferenc… #osgeo #fossgis

Some cautiously optimistic progress on a number of fronts with a University of Calgary connection.

I can’t believe I’m saying this because I’ve been such a huge fan of Google and Chrome, but I’ve switched to Microsoft Edge and my browsing experience has been immediately and substantially improved.

Great keynote by Paul Ramsey at FOSS4GNA 2023. "What We Owe One Another: The Political Economy of Open Source" youtu.be/1OfunxBysmg

Join us for the OSGeo Alberta Chapter meetup, first Wednesday of each month at 7pm. March 6th, Harsingh Sekhon present: "Creating Custom Routes for the Plus 15 Network in Downtown Calgary" meetup.com/osgeo-alberta-…

Folks, I see many of the meetup.com events posted get a grey box and text instead of a group or event image to click through to the meetup event itself. Some remove the box and add their own image. Does anyone know a way to get a nice click-through image to appear?

I've confirmed this is a known issue with Meetup.com. They are apparently aware of it though there is no estimated fix date. Just FYI.

Join us for the OSGeo Alberta Chapter meetup, March 6th at 7pm. Harsingh Sekhon will present work from his team's prize-winning effort in the recent YYCHacks event: "Creating Custom Routes for the Plus 15 Network in Downtown Calgary" meetup.com/osgeo-alberta-…

Join us for the OSGeo Alberta Chapter meetup, first Wednesday of each month at 7pm. April 3rd: Darren Flach - Spatial Edge - presents his proposed approach to create a centralized GIS data repository of vector files using a cloud-native database service. meetup.com/osgeo-alberta-…

Reminder to join us for the OSGeo, Alberta Chapter meetup the first Wednesday of every month, from 7-9pm. May 1: We have no presentations planned. If you're working, learning, or just playing around with open source GIS, feel free to drop in and show us. meetup.com/osgeo-alberta-…