GeoBeer #26 Review, GeoBeer Analytics and #27...

GeoBeer #26 Review,
GeoBeer Analytics and #27

Hi all!

It's spring time and there are some noteworthy GeoBeer news that we want to share with you...

Review of GeoBeer #26

On March 21st, we had our second event for this year, and again it was in Bern. This time, our sponsor was OPENGIS.ch – and what a sponsor they were: Apart from the nice location at ImpactHub (remember #19?), they even brewed a beer of their own and served a total of three tasty kinds of beers, and various other drinks, of course. Rumor has it, the GeoBeer team preferred the "Spatiale", a really special Ale...

Marco Bernasocchi of OPENGIS.ch opened the GeoBeer with a welcome note that has not been seen or heard before: He not only greeted us in Rumantsch (like Romedi Filli did last time), he also used the other three official Swiss languages: Italian, French, and German. And while he was at it, of course, English.

This was followed by outstanding talks: Marcus Hudritsch of BFH gave a talk on Outdoor Augmented Reality (AR), and specifically about the AR app ErlebAR that aims to allow people to experience archeologic insights through AR.

Next, Pascal Bourquin told us about his exciting project LA VIE EN JAUNE. In this, he endeavors to run all hiking paths of Switzerland, a total of 65,179 km. He's currently at 22% done!

Finally, Daniele Viganò gave us a presentation about his work at GEM, a foundation that develops a global earthquake model. He gave us a quick tour of their Open Quake Engine for seismic hazard and risk analysis.

We compiled some Twitter highlights of the evening on our GeoBeer #26 review page:

Go to the GeoBeer #26 review

Something new: GeoBeer Analytics

GeoBeer is now more than 6 years old and we love to manage these events with our local sponsors and organizers, because we can feel the power of community every time we tavel home from another inspiring evening. But we wanted to know more about GeoBeers than just feeling good about the events themselves. So we took Peter Drucker's quote to our heart: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

We collected data about many of our events (some of the early ones are lost to history and the fast pace of digital platform lifecycles) and compiled results with R. For now, we looked at how fast tickets usually go and about one particular dimension of diversity, gender balance.

You can check out our results on the GeoBeer Analytics site (press the button below). Importantly, we opened all our code for running all analyses and we share all (non-personal) result data. We hope this may help you if you want to benchmark your event (series) or your organisation. We would like to hear back from you if you find our tools useful, if you share similar data, and/or if you have comments or questions!

GeoBeer Analytics

Registration for GeoBeer #27: Open on April 16th

In case you have missed the last GeoBeer(s), don't despair! Our next event is already lined up: On May 16th, 2019, starting at 18:00, GeoBeer #27 will be hosted in the Emmental. The Franz Gertsch museum in Burgdorf is probably the most artsy location we (will) have been to, thanks to our newest sponsor Geocom! We look forward to an exciting evening with great people in Burgdorf!

The event page for #27 is already online, but the ticketing is not open yet. We will open the registration process on Tuesday, April 16th, in the evening at 18:00 sharp. (that is, exactly one month before GeoBeer #27 itself). As usual, it's first come, first serve.

Go to the GeoBeer #27 event page

Thanks for reading and being such a great supporter of – thanks to you all – a truly unique networking event. We hope to see you in May or at an adhoc #minigeobeer!

– Anne, Ralph and Stephan