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[EN] From Volcanos to Open Source - John Stevenson
Update: 2025-04-21
Description
My guest is John Stevenson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and there is a lot to cover in this episode: John's switch from science to engineering; how to move from proprietary to open source software - and the hot stuff: volcanos. And what John did in volcanology.
Here are a few links:
- https://www.bgs.ac.uk/people/stevenson-john/ John's profile at the BGS
- https://volcanologistsoutsideacademia.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/spotlight-john-a-stevenson-ph-d/
- https://all-geo.org/volcan01010/every-post-ever/ John's blog posts
- https://fosstodon.org/@volcan01010 John's profile on Mastodon
- https://github.com/volcan01010/ GitHub for John
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Kübler-Ross a reference for the 5 stages of grief
Volcanos
- https://icelandicvolcanos.is Iceland has a lot of volcanos
- https://rischi.protezionecivile.gov.it/en/volcanic/volcanoes-italy/ Volcanos in Italy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallajökull the big eruption from 2010
- http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm the letters by Pliny the Younger describing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD
Tools mentioned
- https://www.sonatype.com
- https://qgis.org
- https://www.geopackage.org
- https://merginmaps.com
- https://www.redhat.com/en
- https://www.debian.org
- https://www.centos.org
- https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/malicious-code-in-xz-utils-for-linux.html Linux security vulnerability found in 2024
Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!
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