July 2016

Community Thanks

Posted on 2016-07-192017-06-27 by ajggeoger in General

Who are your Free (open) Software heroes? This was a question asked last October as part of the Linux Voice podcast. The full series of responses can be found here: http://www.linuxvoice.com/voice-of-the-masses-who-is-your-linux-or-free-software-hero/ and it's well worth a read. This got me thinking about who has influenced me most in my use of open source and open data. The … Continue reading Community Thanks →

How do you manage?

Posted on 2016-07-082017-06-08 by ajggeoger in Business

I was part of a discussion recently about different management styles. As an independent consultant, I currently only have to manage myself, although the desire is to grow the business and a team of likeminded people. The thoughts and arguments that were being presented by those of us having the discussion caught my interest, so I … Continue reading How do you manage? →

What’s in a day rate?

At a BARSC meeting in March 2019 about commercialising Earth observation I gave a short talk about something that is critical to all independent consultants and freelancers: day rates! The main point that I wanted to make was that although an individual’s day rate might seem high, there are a number of factors that the […]

Have you Scene this?

Many of you reading this will know that I create and host the Scene From Above alongside Andrew Cutts. We have now been publishing episodes (every three weeks) for 2 years! Time has flown by, and hopefully the quality of the episodes has improved a bit since our first demo episode. In this post I […]

A decade in review

Not only is it the end of the year, but it’s also the end of a decade. And a lot of things have changed in this decade. This post won’t cover all (or many!) of them, but I will try to give you a flavour of how things have changed for me (and maybe how […]