Keynote
summary
Three concrete stories anchor a call to widen the spatial community: a first-year analyst who needs a regression model for arson risk and gets shut down, a geometry problem (max distance between a straight and a curved line) posed to math forums, and early QGIS contributors who turn bug reports into code and reach 700+ commits. Practical outcomes: mentor/mentee relationships, replace critical cartography with constructive feedback, and stop producing misleading results like calculating area in web Mercator without reprojection.
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