If someone linked you this post is probable you are organizing an event where diversity and inclusivity is an issue and they want to help you fix that. If you want, you can jump to the subsection that better adjust to your case. Remember: diversity is not a TL;DR , you probably need to read the full article to get a better grasp of what you need. As usual: I’m going to focus on the gender gap because it’s easier for me to talk in those terms, but similar strategies can be applied to any other under-represented group.

Do we really need to explain the problem of diversity? IT is mainly white and male. Even the most egalitarian person have biases due to have lived on a non egalitarian world and this reflects on our community. There are also society pressure to some groups of persons not to work on IT.

Let’s overlook the statistical justice of having a diverse team. Let’s overlook the social justice of working on a team with high diversity. Go directly to why you, someone interested in having business at the end of the year, are also interested in having a diverse team. Spanish version is on Ping a Programadoras blog. Each one of us sees the world from a different perspective. Because of the vital experience that the society where we grow offers us. Those different perspectives are what makes us see different details on the same situation. And these details are what gives the products and services offered by your company the quality you need to succeed. Are the diverse teams more efficient and economically profitable? Yes Are the diverse teams more creative? Yes.

Me gusta leer ciencia ficción. He devorado sagas e historias sueltas y tengo el kindle a reventar. Pero, en este despertar feminista, un día me di cuenta de que no seguía a ninguna autora. Eran todo hombres. ¿Dónde estaban las escritoras de Ciencia Ficción? ¿Por qué no me había cruzado con ninguna? Así que me puse a rebuscar entre interminables listados de antologías y recopilaciones. Y acabé comprando un libro recopilatorio que parecía ser lo que andaba buscando: una recopilación de autoras que luego podría usar para seguir buscando más libros interesantes.

Una de las cosas que más me ha sorprendido en mi andadura feminista es hasta qué punto todas hemos tenido una evolución más o menos parecida. Con nuestros triggers particulares, nuestras situaciones y nuestras epifanías, la evolución es siempre parecida, cada una con sus tiempos y su velocidad particular.

Año tras año, la GeoCamp se consolida como el geosarao imprescindible para hacer brainstorming sobre las últimas novedades en geocosas. Publicado originalmente en el blog de GeoInquietos Sevilla. La foto de grup del Geocamp ES 2016 a Barcelona #geocampes pic.twitter.com/H44a413tM0 > > — Geo Inquiets (@geoinquiets) 22 de octubre de 2016 Todo el mundo tiene sus cinco minutos de fama, incluso si no llevas nada preparado, raro será que no participes en alguna discusión. Battery just about to die so this concludes my #geocampes tweeting. Here’s the remaining lineup pic.twitter.com/3eRxBt5NsF > > — Ed Freyfogle (@freyfogle) 22 de octubre de 2016

This post was originally posted on the blog of a former company. But since they have decided to violate my authorship rights, here is a copy of it. English version is lost. Photo of an asado Este año tuve el privilegio de poder asistir a la FOSS4G Argentina 2016, que se celebró en el IGN de Buenos Aires. Qué puedo contaros de Argentina que no sepáis ya. https://www.instagram.com/p/BD1thIpqcTI ...

This post was originally posted on the blog of a former company. But since they have decided to violate my authorship rights, here is a copy of it. We have already seen how to compile and run a basic GeoNetwork instance. Although we know that real developers will probably skip this step too, for new developers in GeoNetwork, it will be relief to have an IDE to work with. I know that many GeoNetwork developers use NetBeans or Intellij but as I am used to work with Eclipse, that’s what we are going to explore on this post. First of all: Eclipse has better support for Maven projects on each version. So, to avoid headaches, just download the latest eclipse available.Eclipse has many installer tutorials, so I won’t stop here explaining how to run eclipse. I will just assume you know how to do it. To run GeoNetwork from eclipse is very very easy. Just right click on the Package Explorer view to import -> As Maven Project over the folder you already had cloned on the last post:

This post was originally posted on the blog of a former company. But since they have decided to violate my authorship rights, here is a copy of it. Last week I attended the JIIDE conference, that took place here in Sevilla. This is the official conference for both portuguese and spanish spatial data infraestructures. The presentations were diverse and rich in content and there were working groups for INSPIRE and conformance running in parallel. Trends on GeoSpatial You could see some trends in how SDIs are evolving through all the Iberian Peninsula. Geograma explained to us that hiding data behind paywalls or registering sites makes us less compliant. But on the other hand, maybe it doesn’t matter because as José Fernández ( IECA) showed us, data is going more and more open and free. Why should someone pay for data generated on a public administration? It has already been payed by taxes and a paywall is just another stone on the way of generating added value to the data. And above all this, every country has a different payment and access system, so it is virtually impossible to query the same data on different countries easily, which was one of the goals for INSPIRE.

This post was originally posted on the blog of a former company. But since they have decided to violate my authorship rights, here is a copy of it. GeoNetwork, your friendly spatial catalog, never has been an easy software to deal with. But specially after the 3.0 version release, many things have changed. On this series of posts we will try to help new developers start with it. The source code is available on a public repository on Github. This means that you can clone, fork and propose pushes of your custom changes. If you are not familiar with repositories of code or git, you should check this quick manual.