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Super Early Bird tickets available now through Jan 9

Plus: Calls open for speakers, workshop leaders, exhibitors & sponsors
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Join Us at CNG Forum 2026: Building the Future of Cloud-Native Geospatial
Join us at CNG Forum 2026 on 6-9 October 2026 in Snowbird, Utah for the second annual gathering.
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What made #CNG2025 special:
🌐 250+ attendees from 100+ orgs
⭐ 4.7/5 star rating
✅ 95% said they'd return
▪️Real technical depth, no fluff

For #CNG2026, we're going bigger: 500 attendees, higher bar, more impact. Join us
cloudnativegeo.org/2026
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Register to watch LIVE on either:
YouTube luma.com/vk4ms1pb or
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/events/denic...
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I went last year, it was worth the trip!
Registration is officially open for CNG Forum 2026

Super Early Bird tickets available now through Jan 9

Plus: Calls open for speakers, workshop leaders, exhibitors & sponsors
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/12...
Join Us at CNG Forum 2026: Building the Future of Cloud-Native Geospatial
Join us at CNG Forum 2026 on 6-9 October 2026 in Snowbird, Utah for the second annual gathering.
cloudnativegeo.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Register to watch LIVE on either:
YouTube luma.com/vk4ms1pb or
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/events/denic...
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Registration is officially open for CNG Forum 2026

Super Early Bird tickets available now through Jan 9

Plus: Calls open for speakers, workshop leaders, exhibitors & sponsors
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/12...
Join Us at CNG Forum 2026: Building the Future of Cloud-Native Geospatial
Join us at CNG Forum 2026 on 6-9 October 2026 in Snowbird, Utah for the second annual gathering.
cloudnativegeo.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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If you missed the conversation between @geoskeptic.bsky.social & @jed.co on how open tech standards evolve, using #stac as a case study, you can watch it here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFe...
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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What's the difference between data & data products? Our Executive Director @jed.co sat down with Daniel O'Donohue from MapScaping to explore that question, plus @source.coop, cloud-native approaches & building institutions designed for the 21st century. Listen here: mapscaping.com/podcast/from...
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reminder: Register to watch LIVE this Wed Dec 10 at 11am PST via
🔗 YouTube luma.com/p5287nqc or LinkedIn linkedin.com/events/73969...
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Register to watch live on Dec 10 at 11am PST at greatdataproducts.com. You can also watch live on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/events/73969...
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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If you missed our conversation with Jack Cushman from @harvardlil.bsky.social‬, you can catch up now. We discussed the Data.gov Archive and the challenge of preventing federal data loss – it's about more than just web pages.

youtube.com/live/XYMbQru...
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Level up your #EarthObservation skills with this Cloud-Native Geo workshop at @foss4g.org on Nov 17, 9am, rm WF613.
Get hands-on w/ Python Notebooks to apply key concepts like @stacspec.bsky.social & GeoTIFFs. We'll bridge the gap from theory to real-world EO analysis
talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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We’re heading to Auckland 🇳🇿 for @foss4g2025.bsky.social to talk Rust 🦀 + open geospatial.

Catch our team showing how modern tools make geospatial faster and more interoperable.

Find us for zines + join the GeoRust sprint.

Get the deets: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...

#foss4g #osgeo
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Slides for my @foss4gna.bsky.social NA talk, "Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata with stac-geoparquet" are at www.gadom.ski/presentation...

I subtitled the talk "Practical STAC", because #stac-geoparquet was motivated by real-world problems found while managing large @stacspec.bsky.social systems
stac-geoparquet
www.gadom.ski
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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We recently completed the move of the #stac-geoparquet specification documents to a new repository in the @radiant.earth Github org: github.com/radiantearth...

Check out the rendered HTML here: radiantearth.github.io/stac-geoparq...
stac-geoparquet-spec
Open, community specification for storing STAC in GeoParquet
radiantearth.github.io
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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We're honored to serve as fiscal sponsor for Common Space, as they work to build a high-res satellite constellation for humanitarian aid. If you use sat imagery for social good, fill out their survey to help shape their 🛰️ mission requirements @billfgreer.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
For those who couldn't catch our latest podcast live, here's the recording! Thank you @bdon.org for sharing your thoughts about all things cloud-native maps, and to everyone who tuned in live, especially those joining us from Norway and Egypt in the wee hours!
youtu.be/VACq-POg_dw
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
26 developers, 3 days, 1 mission: Advancing #CloudNativeGeo data! The 1st @stacspec.bsky.social + Zarr sprint in Europe addressed shared problems like how to represent multidimensional Zarr stores in STAC, and more.

Read recap & see the key achievements cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/11...
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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@hls.harvard.edu's Library Innovation Lab chose @source.coop to host its Data.gov Archive – 311K+ datasets (17.9 TB)!

Selected for its cloud-scale design:
☁️ Object storage
📦 Massive data publishing
🔗 Easy sharing

Read more ↓
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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We're proud to provide the infrastructure that helps @earthgenome.org share 60+ TB of cloud-optimized satellite imagery. Read how they leveraged @source.coop to enable global access to their Earth Index data, cutting distribution costs for #conservation efforts
🔗 docs.source.coop/case-studies...
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Free Hackday Alert! Help expand earthaccess to include
@noaa.gov, USGS & Copernicus data
🗓️ During #AGU2025 in New Orleans & Online on Dec 15, 1-6pm CST
✅ Why: Strategy, Code, & Documentation for "Growing the Family"

Register by Nov 19 luma.com/7hp819zp
Openscapes earthaccess Hackday · Luma
Join us for our earthaccess hackday in New Orleans and online! This hackweek is independent of AGU2025 but conveniently co-located for attendees. Registration…
luma.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This is coming up this Friday, 1.30 pm in Australia time!

Join the Google Group or DM me for a direct invite :-)
The STAC Project SC is hosting a community meeting specifically timed for folks in the Asia/Oceania region – that means no more 2 a.m. wake-up calls to join
🗓️Fri, Oct 10th at 1:30 pm AEST

Get invite from @ausp.io or join the Google Group via groups.google.com/a/cloudnativ...
October 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
🎙️Join the next episode of the Great Data Products podcast LIVE on Oct 29 at 4pm PDT! @jed.co will sit down for a conversation with @bdon.org about building maps for the web. Brandon is the creator of @protomaps.com. Register to watch live here ⤵️

greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The STAC Project SC is hosting a community meeting specifically timed for folks in the Asia/Oceania region – that means no more 2 a.m. wake-up calls to join
🗓️Fri, Oct 10th at 1:30 pm AEST

Get invite from @ausp.io or join the Google Group via groups.google.com/a/cloudnativ...
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Fueling up for the @zarr.dev Summit 2025 in Rome next week! 🍕🍝

A big thanks to B-Open for sponsoring the breaks for the Adopter days portion of the summit (Oct 16 & 17)! As an Italian SME expert in Earth Observation and data workflow, their support is a perfect fit.

More about them: www.bopen.eu
October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Bridges to Prosperity's dataset is hosted on @source.coop as #PMTiles, a cloud-optimized format for map tiles (vector or raster). This #usecase highlights how cloud-native formats like PMTiles don’t just improve performance, they can unlock funding & impact at scale
docs.source.coop/case-studies...
Bridges to Prosperity used #AI to triple the world's mapped waterways & made this dataset publicly accessible on @source.coop as #PMTiles 🌍 Dive into the full case study + impact, which includes securing #grants, building new partnerships & more: docs.source.coop/case-studies... #Geospatial
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM