March 2019

Conference costs

Posted on 2019-03-192019-02-28 by ajggeoger in Business, Conferences

I hope that this doesn't come across as a moan, because it isn't meant to. It's more of a query. Why is it that some conferences are so expensive? I'd really like to have attended the three events listed below, but their registration costs are prohibitive for independents and micro businesses (and probably many other … Continue reading Conference costs →

JNCC Business Associate

Posted on 2019-03-052019-02-28 by ajggeoger in Business, news

If you follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn then you might have seen a recent announcement that I have approached to become, and have been contracted as, a JNCC Business Associate. I am incredibly chuffed with this. Being a Business Associate makes it easier for micro-businesses and freelancers to work with the project teams at … Continue reading JNCC Business Associate →

Living Planet Symposium (from afar)

Wow! The European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium 2019 is creating a huge positive feeling towards Earth observation this week – and I’m not even there! One of the nicest things for those of us who have been unable to get there has been the social media wall (created using walls.io). I’d not come across […]

What’s on Github?

I thought that I would post about some of the interesting things that I have come across on GitHub that relate to Earth observation. GitHub, if you aren’t a coder, is an online platform where software code can be managed, stored and shared. I just want to say up front that I haven’t tried and […]

Portainer

Recently I’ve been doing much of my processing work using Docker. This containerisation software is great for keeping software and data separate from your base machine, but more importantly allows the same software configuration to be used across different operating systems and hardware. Anyway, more about how I have been using it can be found […]