Staff members recently underwent training in first aid and fire safety. During a refresher course, Ann, Benni, Jan and Simon updated their first aid skills, successfully completing recertification.
GeoNode and KomMonitor well received
In March, a small group of 52Ners made its way to Hamburg for the FOSSGIS 2024. The conference provided a broad spectrum of presentations about open-source GIS, projects and AI. At our booth, we unpacked our portfolio and engaged in many interesting discussions about state-of-the-art open-source technologies. These also carried over into the evening event (Is there any wine left?).
Clean Münster Campaign!
Once again, 52°North staff cleaned up around the office building and in the neighboring Friedenspark. Mid-march, our team spent several hours collecting all sorts of trash and it felt great to be able to do our part to keep the environment clean! A hot barbecue with a cold drink was a nice reward after toiling away!
Count us in again next year!
Vienna! Known for its outstanding beauty, its distinct culture, and the EGU General Assembly. Well, ok, EGU is probably only in the minds of people with a geoscience background, because EGU is the European Geosciences Union, and the General Assembly is the annual conference full of oral talks and poster presentations. The conference is not just big, it is huge. This year (April 23 – 28, 2023), more than 17,000 people from research and industry gathered in Vienna to disseminate their findings, network with familiar and unfamiliar faces, and listen to presentations covering all disciplines in earth sciences. This makes the conference one of the few opportunities to reach such a diverse audience and get feedback or inspiration from many different experts.
So, how can such a conference be complete without 52°North? Short answer: It can’t! For this reason, 52°North’s research software engineers Katharina Demmich and Markus Konkol headed south to talk about research data infrastructures in the context of the I-CISK project, harmonized sharing of ocean observing data, and communicating data quality through open reproducible research in the context of the MINKE project.