This year’s FOSS4G Europe took me to Timișoara, the largest city in western Romania. The event was hosted by the West University of Timișoara (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara).
I travelled there for 52°North to listen, to talk to people, and to present “Optimizing Resource Usage of Interoperable Geospatial Processing Infrastructures with Kubernetes.”
More on that below. The journey took me from the heat dome in Germany to the heat dome in Romania.But now, let’s set the scene.
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Hello everyone!
In my introductory blog post, I introduced my GSoC 2026 project on developing a QGIS plugin for the 52°North Weather Routing Tool (WRT), with the goal of simplifying the existing workflow through an intuitive graphical interface.
It’s now time for the GSoC midterm blog post. Over the past few weeks, the main milestones achieved are the Configuration Wizard and Route Visualization modules. This post summarizes the progress made so far and what’s coming next.
Hi everyone!
I’m Shashaank Srivastava, and I’m excited to be joining 52°North for Google Summer of Code 2026. This summer, I’ll be working on building a QGIS plugin for the Weather Routing Tool (WRT). This blog marks the beginning of my GSoC journey, where I’ll share progress updates, technical decisions, challenges, and learnings throughout the summer. As an introductory post, I’ll talk about the project, the ideas behind it, what I aim to achieve, and a little about myself.
With the increasing impacts of climate change on our everyday life, the question arises: how well are we prepared for its effects? We will be confronted with more frequent and intense heat waves in the near future, which will especially challenge the citizens of bigger cities.