En 2023 tuve la oportunidad de ser parte de la organización del SoTM Brasil, el primero de su nombre. En este año que ya se acaba pude participar y ayudar en la organización del grandioso SoTM Latam 2024, que ha sucedido después de muchos años sin él.

He tenido la oportunidad del reencuentro con grandes amigos y hacer nuevos amigos Geniales. A mi me encanta tener contacto con mis hermanos de Latinoamérica! Algunos de los mejores (seguro que me voy a olvidar de alguien, disculpas jaja): Juan, Johnatan, Andrez, Leonardo, Celín, Emilio, Silvia, Yessica, Maya, Gustavo, Patricia, Graeme, Leticia Maria, Zorka, Salim. Y más gente muy chévere que todavia no recuerdo sus nombres jajaja

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Hello everyone, better late than never, and yeah, that’s my first time here =D

This is meant to be a testimonial covering a somewhat more technical part, for a more “fun” version, I made a thread on Twitter* with LOTS of good photos!! (last year I’ve made a similar) !!

Well, in the beginning, I wasn’t expecting to even be at the event, like, another continent, too expensive travel… I’ve submitted my piece of work, that I was already working on It was (accepted)[https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2023/talk/CRPWUS/]!

Then I’ve been approved for the travel grant program and also as a volunteer!!! I was so so glad, then I need to say thanks again for OSGEO, FLOSSK, UFPR, and HOT they were the ones that made the travel possible!!

Kosovo is a lovely country, there’s amazing and quite affordable food everywhere! Also, the locals and the “locals”, but from Albania (I found this shared sense of belonging very enchanting) received me very well, I got to know many badass people from FOSS community, like the giants from OpenLabs and Cloud 68, they are incredible people and contributors, now I’m really eager to get to know Tirana!

Now getting to the promised technical part: I saw so many solutions and applications, It’s so amusing to see ever-growing FOSS software, including in fields like 3D GIS and even digital twins fancy stuff.

As an OSM lover what I found most heartfelt was that everyone was so fond of OSM there, all applications with base maps had some OSM flavor/derived there, and all making analysis using OSM as the main or one of the data sources…

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