We’re looking forward to hosting this month’s GeoNYC meetup in our offices on Tuesday, September 16. September’s meetup will focus on satellites–from giant ones to tiny ones to ones full of complex ethical implications. (OK, the ethics thing applies to big ones and small ones.)
Speakers include:
Lela Preshad of NiJel, who recently wrote a great piece for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism on remote sensing that you should probably read
Kevin Bullock, a product manager at geospatial and satellite giant DigitalGlobe and owner of a Minecraft t-shirt according to this video of his State of the Map US 2014 talk
Chris Holmes, an advisor at Planet Labs, a company designing and building a network of small satellites and in possession of a really bold domain name.
Expect pizza, beer, and jetlagged post-FOSS4G recaps. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Any rumors that we will also be playing Dave Matthews Band’s “Satellite” on a loop prior to the meetup are entirely false. We would never do that to anyone. (Obviously if you’re making a satellite joke, Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love” all the way.)
