Jspreadsheet CE VS mapzy

For the spreadsheet, we use the excellent Jspreadsheet library. If there are no errors, the import happens in two steps because importing a lot of locations requires a lot of calls to the Mapbox geocoding API (geocoding is converting an address to longitude and latitude), which is rate limited.

There is a presentation at FOSDEM 2021 about FDL: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/fosstaxbreak/

Title: Give open source a (tax) break

Cash that gets into FDL/LEF is then spent to sponsor existing FLOSS projects or to acquire intellectual property rights of existing works and change their license to FLOSS.

Case 1: https://bossanova.uk/jspreadsheet/v4/ got financed partly by FDL/LEF

Case 2: the radio hardware of the Open Radio Station (a 4G/5G vRAN base station based on Amarisoft stack and SlapOS) is in the process of being acquired and released as open source hardware. See https://shop.rapid.space/product_module/241/Resource_viewAsS...

The requirement for PhD is here to ensure that all projects that are financed by FDL/LEF have some kind of general interest or innovation, something which is useful to comply with Tax Law

Yeah maybe in that case you can use jspreadsheet

I haven an open-source app (it's a store finder) that also uses Docker and Redis. Have a look at the GitHub repo, maybe there's something to help you there in my setup?

Mapzy is a store finder, and like Fugu it focuses on simplicity. Again, I've created it because the store finders out there were either ugly, too complex and/or expensive, and not privacy-focused. Read more on mapzy.io

If you're interested in the code, have a look at location_imports_controller.rb, location_import.rb, and batch_geocode_worker.rb.

I contribute to Our World In Data [0] and some of the Rails repos. I also run my own open source projects [1][2].

I've just recently started doing it, and I only put in a few hours each week. Slow and steady wins the race. My motivation is three-fold: First, it's gratifying to give something back to software I love using for free. Second, I learn a lot. Third, if I ever want to work with one of the companies who are stewarding these repos, it gives me a leg up in the application process.

0: https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher

1: https://github.com/shafy/fugu

2: https://github.com/mapzy/mapzy

I've been trying out Jekyll for a new side project's static website and of course added my favorite CSS framework, Tailwind, into the mix. However, after adding Tailwind with PostCSS I began to see very slow build times. Generating the site went from less than a second to more than 30 seconds. Waiting this long to see every change you do makes working with Jekyll impossible.