Welcome to the roundup of FME news for this (and last) week...

FME Conference and World Tour

Preparation for the FME user conference in August is proceeding well.

The presentation lineup is now decided, with folks like Frederic (Using FME to Study/Preserve Marine Mammals) and myself (Raster Algebra and FME) being informed of our acceptance.

The training lineup will be published soon, though I can reveal that I'm working on a course on Dynamic Workspaces, including use of the SchemaScanner.

And one other thing I'm working on is an evening Hackathon event. In short, the whole conference is going to be great and there is still Early Bird pricing for a few weeks.

As Frederic says, "I'm looking forward to seeing so many of my highly-missed fme-addict friends there."

The Safe Software part of the FME World Tour (the Brunch and Learn) is now complete, but registrations are still open! Why? So that you can access all of the talks and presentations from the event.

Other World Tour events are still ongoing of course. Vicrea held their in-person event in the Netherlands yesterday. Coming up next are Norkart (Oslo, Norway, April 21st) and Beijing Antu I2M Co Ltd (Suzhou, China, April 27th).

Online, con terra's German event was last week, but they have a Spanish-speaking event on April 25th. Sweco has a number of upcoming events, but the first is April 26th and is (I believe) in English.

Hub Updates

As usual, we get a hub digest at the end of each month. For March we can see that most items are actually connector-type transformers. There are Safe-created ones that work with Cartegraph, Confluence, and Google Calendar; and there is a user-created one for Microsoft Dynamics 365.

There are also transformers for handling Revit appearances and converting from Word to PDF.

Partner Activities

I might not have any skills in speaking Dutch, but I can use Google Translate! So I was able to read this great article (original | translated) from partner Tensing, about their Young Professional program.

I'm happy to see that their latest graduate had this to say:

"I recently completed the program and chose to immerse myself further in FME. That does not mean that I am exclusively concerned with FME, but my main interest lies there."

Congratulations on your wise choice, Vince, and for having a name that translates so interestingly in Google!

Also from that part of the world, ETL Solution is working with a group called Ang to develop data checking tools in FME (original | translated).

In Ireland, partner IMGS is offering FME training courses, including ones in Python, web services, and Automations; and in Germany, con terra has produced another of their FME zum Kaffe series, this one being a video on "creating attributes from existing transformers or from writer feature types".

Historic Resources Project

You may have spotted this tweet recently, about listing historic resources in Alberta, Canada.

The project description doesn't specifically mention what part FME is used for, but it is very interesting to read and points to a site where you may use the interface for yourself.

I think it's a great example of the type of project in which FME can be used. Congratulations to the team at the Historic Resources Management Branch for creating this great tool.

More Congratulations...

And here are some congratulations around certification to round off this post.

Did you know that Safe Software certifies not just users, but partner companies too? For example, IMGS was just awarded a certificate of expertise for FME in Local Government.

I suspect that these awards are what drive the Industry filters on our website's Partner Locator tool:

But as for user certifications, congratulations this week to Pradip Prasad, Caroline van Gucht, and Seán McDade for Certified Professional status.