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title: R-Spatial and OSGeo discussion panel

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# R-Spatial and OSGeo discussion panel

For FOSS4G 2021, 2021-09-27 to 2021-10-02

Time: TBC

Duration: 90 minutes

Location: online + live streamed

# Format

Aim: present the R-spatial 'ecosystem'.

Target audience: FOSS4G attendees (generally experienced in geographic data and software but with little or no knowledge of R-spatial)

## Introducing R-Spatial

## Talks (10 minutes each, questions in chat)

- Introduction by chair on proceedings (5 minutes, Edzer)
- Overview of the ecosystem: IDEs, dependencies, packages, resources, applications (Paula)
- OSGeo/R interfaces and upstream contributions (Roger Bivand)
- qgisprocess: A command-line interface to QGIS within a statistical programming and interactive data analysis environment (Dewey Dunnington)
- R's capabilities for reproducible spatial data visualization (Lorena)

## Open discussion (45 minutes)

- What is R's niche within the wider FOSS4G community?
- How can R-spatial be better integrated into FOSS4G?
- What are gaps in the FOSS4G ecosystem that R-spatial can fill?
- What are gaps in R-Spatial that FOSS4G/OSGeo can help with?
- How can R-spatial become an active OSGeo member?
- How can R-spatial (better) contribute to OSGeo?
- How to get involved in R-Spatial?


