Space Meetups

Some dude tries to tell me that D3 was a language. I did look it up to make sure that there isn’t a language named D3 but I didn’t find it. I think he’s just kind of confused about javascript. So that was a promising start. The food was good- gyros and baklava

The door panel is a pain in the ass to get in, even with the post-it instructions.

Intros:

• Catherine from UrtheCast is running everything.
• 4 presenters for 3 presentations, ~35 attendees including late people and Urthe employees
• Ocean Conservation Research
• bayGEO meetup group
• Global Forest Watch
• OSGeo linux
• DalaSpace(?) startup, 3(?) ppl
• Someone currently doing Dev Bootcamp, who does GIS stuff

WorldWind

• USGS Earthquake Slabs
• supports many data formats- WMS, WFS, other open standards
• deep neural networks
• deep learning
• Exelis uses them
• Greatest OSS needs: demo apps, maybe update Android/iOS apps, performance tests vs Google Earth?

Leo Tam presenting from Nvidia

• ImageNet, image labeling
• cuDNN
• DEVBOX 7 teraflops per gpu
• DIGITS Deep Learning GPU Training System OSS on github
• Jetson
• Deep Learning lol
• Audiences are usually made mostly of very confused people, and a few people who feel a strong inner need to prove that they are not one of the confused people, who mostly do not contribute anything other than their own prestige feelings.
• Marketingggg