FOSS4G-NA 2024

  • 19th Sep 2024
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  • 2 min read
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  • rust
  • stac

My slides from my 2024 FOSS4G-NA talk, "stac-rs: High-performance, reliable STAC tooling with Rust" are available here. One of my favorite parts of preparing the talk was making this little guy:

Ferris holding the STAC logo

It took me so much longer than it should have to get the claw+logo layering correct — I Am Not A Graphic Designer, obviously.

Some takeaways from the conference:

  • It's really fun being at a conference and not representing a company. I just felt like I could do what I wanted, which I enjoyed.
  • I always love this conference, so many folks that I know from the near and distant past.
  • There's a lot of chatter about stac-geoparquet, and my sense is that community isn't quite sure how it will be used, but that it will probably be used.
  • I got more than a few questions along the lines of "What's the deal with Rust and geo? Is it useful?" and I probably should write wrote a post just about that, because I have thoughts. Tl;dr: good for making tooling and core components, but if you find yourself scripting you're Doing It Wrong™ (just use Python).