🆕 blog! “OpenBenches at FOSDEM”

At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.

Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using the Flowblade video editor.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Edward Betts for running the dev room and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/openbenches-at-fosdem/
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#fosdem #OpenBenches

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches at FOSDEM”

At the recent FOSDEM, I did a very quick lightning talk about our OpenBenches project.

Sadly, despite the best efforts of the AV team, the video had a missing section. I took my own audio recording and zipkid took some photos, so I was able to recreate it using the Flowblade video editor.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Edward Betts for running the dev room and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/openbenches-at-fosdem/
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#fosdem #OpenBenches

🆕 blog! “The cost of running OpenBenches.org”

After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?

It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/the-cost-of-running-openbenches-org/
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#fosdem #foss #money #OpenBenches

🆕 blog! “The cost of running OpenBenches.org”

After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?

It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/the-cost-of-running-openbenches-org/
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#fosdem #foss #money #OpenBenches

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/
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#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/
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#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

@Edent In reference to #OpenBenches, did you know the National Trust is logging bench information in #OpenStreetMap? Tidbit shared at #sofmeu25