Happy 28th birthday to GDAL ! From the first commit on 1998-10-17 from a small rural town outside of Ottawa Canada, to almost every geospatial software installation on the planet (and satellites and other planets!) in 28 years. The ultimate example of sharing & community. #foss4g

Sending good vibes to today's #foss4g Belgium event in Brussels. foss4g.be/ #family

For 🇨🇦 QGIS users: you will notice a news item on your dashboard today, when you start QGIS (!). Thanks to the QGIS.ORG team for their help in publishing this. (the news item will appear a little differently if you use QGIS 4 versus QGIS 3, but the message gets across great either way!) #foss4g #family

Wonderful news, #foss4g Asia 2028 will be hosted in Osaka, Japan! (November 2028). Watch for more details coming soon at foss4g.asia/ #family

Never forget where we came from: the "GISIX" installer, bootable disc based on Debian, presented at #foss4g 2004 in Thailand. Its abstract is still available (PDF): foss4g.asia/2004/Full%20Pape…

Thoughts for Malena Libman, as today is her birthday. We can all still feel her #foss4g passion around the world. Gracias "Male", your passion lives in us forever.

Big local news, the QGIS Canada user group is now officially approved! 🎉🥳 Join our discussions on Discourse, or our LinkedIn group, and find all links & next event plans on our site qgis.ca #foss4g #family #canada

Wonderful to hear that #foss4g India will now become an annual event (after the success of last year's FOSS4G Asia event in Nashik). Follow at foss4g.in/ #family

Congrats to the PROJ 9.9.0 release (that projection library that your spatial software relies on). News: proj.org/en/stable/news.html… #foss4g

#foss4g never sleeps: for your calendars, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2026, 28-29 November. Call for presentations at foss4g.hokkaido.jp/2026 #family

Announcing the immediate availability of the MapServer 8.6.6 security release. See details at mapserver.org/#recent-announ… (or see all recently published vulnerabilities at github.com/MapServer/MapServ… ) #foss4g

Congratulations to Ian Turton as the recipient of the 2026 Sol Katz Award (the 22nd year of the award!) earlier today at #foss4g in Hiroshima, Japan, for all of his tireless community work with GeoTools and the Java ecosystem. cc drshannak.bsky.social