Once upon a time, there was a small room, two guys and a plan: plan an event where spatial enthusiasts, students, developers, sales persons, and everyone else interested in geography and geosciences can meet, discuss, present, share thoughts and problems. Six months later, the moment had com and we had the chance to take the organization of GeoBerlin in our own hands.
Back in 2015 Kathleen Danielson organized tze very first geo berlin meetup with 25 participants. Meeting in a pub, interesting talks followed every month. The number of members grew and the time had come to change the pub to a more professional location. WIth the take over of Uli from door2Door the Meetup had a new home at the Door2Door headquarter. The meetup was getting bigger and bigger but organization is quite challenging if you're just one player on the field. So the meetup fell asleep for quite a few month. Uli decided to hand over the organizaton to someone else.
In the meantime, Micahel Marz and myself started to think about a new meetup for Berlin: GeoBerlin was inactive at this time, GeoMonday was to industry-centric, MapTime tzo strict in terms of presenting non-open solutions. We thought about a meetup which was not only open for the industry or the open source community. We wanted a meetup where students, freelancers, nthusiasts, mappers, cartographers, institutions.