Meeting Info

Date & time
18 Mar 2026, 6:00pm-7:30pm

Host
Bloedel Hall Room 292, University of Washington

Address
Seattle, WA 98195

The building is locked after 5pm. Someone will be there 5-10 minutes until 6pm to let us in at the entrance near the bike shelter at the northwest corner of the building. If you see nobody around and can't access, ping the CUGOS Slack to be let in. We will adjourn to a nearby pub for a happy hour after the meeting!

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CUGOS Lightning Talks

By popular demand, we are doing lightning talks this month! Here’s how it works:

  • Share a one-sentence description of your topic to hello@cugos.org, or edit this page to get on the agenda. This is a great opportunity to share rough drafts, open questions, or silly sidequests.
  • Each presenter has 5 minutes to share their topic, with a firm cutoff
  • All presentation types are welcome—no need for slides if you don’t want them
  • After the talk ends, we’ll have time for one or two questions while the next person sets up.
  • We’ll leave some open time at the end of the meeting for informal discussions and follow-up. If you presented an open question, bring your computer so people can help you solve it!

Lightning talk topics

  • Keenan Ganz: the USFS TreeMap dataset and the “missing link” between tabular and raster data
  • Stephen Mangum: working with QGIS print layouts
  • Nat Henry: Measuring turnover in OpenStreetMap points of interest using changesets
  • Karsten Vennemann: PostGIS is Cool – A Few Ways to Use It Like a Geo Ninja.
  • Anthony Lukach: applying nuanced auth policies to STAC APIs
  • Ryan Small: Software Dark Factories

More coming soon!

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