Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63
Description
Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor in Geography, an active open source contributor behind projects like geemap, leafmap or segment-geospatial also sharing tutorials on his popular Youtube channel. Qiusheng has a desire to teach, share and lower the barrier to entry to geospatial, all things I'm always curious to talk more about
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About Qiusheng
Shownotes
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- Kaggle
- Google Earth Engine
- Qiusheng’s Youtube channel
- Qiusheng’s Github
- Book & Podcast recommendation
- Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS (Affiliate Link)
- Mapscaping
Timestamps
(00:00 ) - Introduction
(00:35 ) - Sponsor: OpenCage
(02:01 ) - How would you describe yourself
(03:47 ) - Developing Open Source Software
(06:46 ) - Lowering the barrier to entry
(10:39 ) - Quisheng's story
(18:39 ) - Getting Involved in open source
(22:16 ) - Google Earth Engine
(25:48 ) - Skepticism around closed platforms
(32:31 ) - Teaching Skepticism
(34:16 ) - Is open source free lunch?
(36:51 ) - Why create tutorials?
(41:35 ) - Video over any other format
(45:42 ) - Pushing students to market their projects
(48:52 ) - Teaching in multiple languages
(53:18 ) - YouTube analytics
(55:35 ) - Book/Podcast Recommendation
United States
