- When: Mon 2025-09-29 09:00 - Fri 2025-10-03 13:00
- Where: Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of
organizing code sprints for developers of Free and Open Source GIS software.
Since 2009, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been
organizing an annual Code Sprint of the “C Tribe” OSGeo projects, which
has evolved into a full OSGeo Community Sprint where all “Tribes” are
included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS,
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL, pygeoapi and many more get
together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial
problems and have fun.
Our last face-to-face OSGeo Community Sprint was held with success in
Vienna in 2023.
About BiDS
BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities and
government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase latest
technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of space and
big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to discuss and
present the most recent innovations and challenges encountered in the
context of big data from space. The 2025 edition of BiDS will focus not
only technologies enabling insight and foresight inferable from big data
from space. Together, we want to emphasize how breakthrough space data
driven technologies impact on society’s grand challenges, such as
climate change and the green transition.
The event, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) together
with the European Union Satellite Center (SatCen) and the Joint Research Center (JRC), will take place at the National Library of Latvia.
OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 in Riga
The international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October
2025. We expect about 70 developers from all over the world to
come from various OSGeo projects.
The code sprint will take place at University of Latvia and National Library of Latvia, as
part of the Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS) event.
Accommodations
Working zones will be created for you in the dedicated room area. A wide
variety of drinks and snacks will be provided by OSGeo and sponsors.
Participation in the code sprint is free of charge. As a participant,
you are responsible for your own accommodation.
Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue, many of which are
within walking distance.
Registering for the OSGeo Community Sprint
In order to register for the OSGeo Community Sprint you need to register
for the BiDS event page. More information about Big Data from Space and
the registration link once opened, can be found under
bigdatafromspace2025.org.
Afterwards, please don’t forget to sign up in the OSGeo wiki at our
OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 page. Please note that this is an important step for planning of catering and coordination.
The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to anyone who wishes to participate in one
or more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not only about
programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing
– all this is also important for projects so everyone is cordially
invited to attend the code sprint!
The Community Sprint Organizing Team is looking forward to seeing you there!
If you have questions/comments/ideas please let us know.
Would you like to sponsor the event? Read more about sponsoring the
event.
Please contact tzotsos at osgeo.org directly.
See you in Riga in September 2025!
The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 Team
