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DESCRIPTION:The last year of my university years was a horrible time. You n
 eed money\; you studied business\; you actually wanted to be an actor\, wh
 y did you study business\; you still have some dignity salted with ego so 
 that you don't wanna get melted into a corporate\; you think maybe academi
 a is the way\; you think who is gonna afford another investment for studyi
 ng something nobody cares anymore and there are already millions "copy" of
  you out there\; you search for something meaningful in life for yourself 
 although you know very little about yourself\; you really need money.\n\nA
 midst this chaotic early youth mantra\, I find myself in an agri-tech star
 tup in İstanbul where I can at least afford to live. After my first deare
 st task of researching marijuana legalization\, somehow\, I ended up resea
 rching how to classify satellite imagery to detect tomato fields. An econo
 mist guy from my university\, Sinan\, showed me how he visualizes an NDVI 
 band literally in Excel by adjusting cells and giving them numbers and col
 ors accordingly. Luckily\, we got Betül doing her masters in geomatics at
  that time\, and she said: "Look kids..." while we were looking with an em
 pty face and started to explain the business here.\n\nAfter getting the ba
 sics from Betül\, I did what I've been doing since I was 7 years old: I s
 tarted to surf the internet alone. My walk started into this clergy of peo
 ple sharing everything they know with me. Contacted many people on Linkedi
 n\, watched Youtube videos\, read blogs\, never understood PyQGIS\, hired 
 by a guy among those people and moved to Berlin\, where I started acting a
 fter years\, attended FOSS4Gs\, saw many in-person that I was stalking onl
 ine\, met randomly with people from Yer Çizenler & HOT during a disaster 
 relief\, felt some meaning\, felt in my nerves deeply that I'm not alone i
 n this shapeless Earth\, at least not always.\n\nI'll try to summarize wha
 t I've found that helped me from the 0-state getting into the industry for
  the kids like me out there.\n\nĆao\, djeco!
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SUMMARY:Layperson walk into open geospatial clergy - Batuhan Kavlak
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2025/talk/AY9GE8/
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