Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63

Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor in Geography, an active open source contributor behind projects like geemap, leafmap or segment-geospatial also sharing tutorials on his popular Youtube channel. Qiusheng has a desire to teach, share and lower the barrier to entry to geospatial, all things I'm always curious to talk more about

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Shownotes

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• Kaggle
• Google Earth Engine
• Qiusheng’s Youtube channel
• Qiusheng’s Github
• Book & Podcast recommendation
  • Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS (Affiliate Link)
  • Mapscaping

Timestamps

(00:00) - Introduction 
(00:35) - Sponsor: OpenCage 
(02:01) - How would you describe yourself 
(03:47) - Developing Open Source Software 
(06:46) - Lowering the barrier to entry 
(10:39) - Quisheng's story 
(18:39) - Getting Involved in open source 
(22:16) - Google Earth Engine 
(25:48) - Skepticism around closed platforms 
(32:31) - Teaching Skepticism 
(34:16) - Is open source free lunch? 
(36:51) - Why create tutorials? 
(41:35) - Video over any other format 
(45:42) - Pushing students to market their projects 
(48:52) - Teaching in multiple languages 
(53:18) - YouTube analytics 
(55:35) - Book/Podcast Recommendation

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