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Hello FME Friends! 👋Week one is in the books, and I crushed FME Accelerator and Integrate Data with the FME Platform! My GIS background is coming in clutch right now, making a lot of the concepts click and dusting off a few cobwebs along the way.And a huge shoutout to everyone who chimed in on my first post! Hearing how you all learned FME, plus all the pro tips, gave me a real confidence boost. Thank you!My biggest win of the week: I troubleshooted and installed a misbehaving version of FME Form 2025.0.X on my main machine, set up a virtual machine, installed FME Flow on it, and then connected it to FME Form on my Mac! The VM went dormant over the weekend and I haven’t worked up the courage to reconnect it yet, but let’s celebrate the small stuff 😅Where I’m at now: I just kicked off FME Form Intermediate, and it’s a bit of a jump! I’m still wrapping my head around parameters (user, reader, writer, transformer). I get that they’re basically “the settings,” but knowing when each one m

Hello FME Community! This week’s Question of the Week comes straight from our product team: If FME were available in your preferred language, which one would make the biggest difference for you or your team?Please share your answer in the comments below.New to the Question of the Week? Every week, we’ll post a simple but thought-provoking question that could be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or the future of FME.Each weekly question you answer earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag ($50 value) and points toward badges! Answer our October Questions of the Week by October 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm PDT to be entered in this month’s draw.Answer your first question and you’ll get the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge. Answer five questions and you’ll get the Socializer (Talker) badge.

Some transformers are old friends...and others you’ve been quietly side-eyeing for a while. If you could give a transformer a more honest name, which one would you pick and what would you call it instead?💡 New to the Question of the Week? Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value), plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month’s Questions of the Week by November 30th at 5:00 PM PT to be entered into the draw.🎖️ Answer your first question to earn the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge, and keep it up to reach the Socializer (Talker) badge after five answers!

Hello FME Community!I’m Dustin, the newest face on the Community team here at Safe. I’m originally from Winnipeg ❄️ but now call Calgary, Canada home 🤠. Outside of work you’ll usually catch me at the gym, playing video games, or trying the newest resto in town.First, a little extra context about what brought me here: I started out in GIS with a BSc in Physical Geography and a few years as a GIS Technician, then wandered through tech support, recruiting, and most recently communications. I’m so excited to finally bring my GIS roots and my love of communications together, and I can’t think of a better place to do it than here.Here’s where you come in. I’m learning FME from the ground up, and I want to bring you all along for the ride!So far I’ve finished FME Accelerator and I’m working through Integrate Data with the FME Platform. Just this week I built a geodatabase with features from multiple sources in a few clicks, and my mind was blown 🤯 I couldn’t stop thinking about all the hour

Do you have questions about Working with Databases and Data Lakehouses? This is your chance to ask them, live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments. Every comment automatically enters you into our Question of the Week draw for a chance to win FME swag ($50 value)!Webinar DetailsThursday, November 5 from 8:00am–9:00am PCTREGISTER HEREWhat we’ll coverWhether you’re trying to improve performance, work with spatial data, dynamically create schemas, or troubleshoot connections, this session is built around the challenges you want to discuss.Our experts ​@matt.m-at-safe, ​@desiree_at_safe,​@divyaatsafe & ​@trentatsafe are ready for an open Q&A! Topics could include:Connecting and authenticating to databases and cloud data platforms Reading, writing, updating, and synchronizing database data Working with schemas, geometry, and spatial databases Troubleshooting database, data lake, and lakehouse work

Some people press play on a tutorial. Others dive into the docs. Some break things until they work, and some just tap a colleague on the shoulder. What’s your favourite way to learn something new: videos, docs, trial and error, or asking a person? Drop your go-to learning style in the comments below, and tell us about a time it really paid off!📢 P.S. Looking for your next learning step? Explore free courses and tutorials in the FME Academy and see what’s new in the Community.💡 New to the Question of the Week? Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value), plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month’s Questions of the Week by October 30th at 5:00 PM PDT to be entered into the draw.🎖️ Answer your first question to earn the So

Hi all! Do you have questions about Best Practices for Workspace Debugging? This is your chance to ask them—live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments. Every comment automatically enters you into our Question of the Week draw for a chance to win FME swag ($50 value)!Webinar DetailsThursday, October 1 from 8:00am–9:00am PDTREGISTER HEREWhat we'll coverSomething in the workspace broke. The log is 400 lines long, the error message names a transformer that looks fine, and the deadline has not moved. Most debugging time is not spent fixing the problem, it is spent figuring out where the problem actually lives.Our support and expert services team sees this every day, and there is a pattern to how they approach it. The same handful of checks, in the same order, resolves the majority of what comes across their desks. That order of operations is rarely written down anywhere.Our experts  ​@donalmateer, ​@andre

Article originally posted in the August 26th, 2026 edition of What’s Up Wednesday on LinkedIn.  Community events like FME Community Bingo are more than just a fun way to pass the time - they're a chance to bring people together and to explore FME in ways that go well beyond the everyday workflow. A Bit of BackstoryOver the years, I had the chance to work closely with Mark Ireland, and that gave me some unique insight into how FME Community events are built. I'd already taken on the challenge of digging through some of his other events, like the 12 Days of FME Balloon Race, so when I was approached about bringing back community bingo, I jumped at the chance.Once again, I found myself piecing together everything he had put together - and honestly, it was a really fun challenge. Mark loved building puzzles for the community, and untangling his workspaces turned into an unintentional puzzle in its own right. Tracking down all the pieces and figuring out how everything was connected taught

Welcome back to Question of the Week! This week we want to know...How did you first get into using FME? Whether it was a college course, a job requirement, or pure curiosity, we want to hear your story! Optional: Share a photo (your first workspace, your team, a throwback picture — anything goes).In case you didn’t know...we're running a BINGO contest this month! 🎉 There are 3 Questions of the Week total (August 10, 17, 24). Answering each one earns you a square on your card, as noted in the post title. Drop your answer below and you're one step closer to BINGO! New to the Question of the Week?Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value) - plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month's Questions of the Week by August 31st at

Hi everyone! Show us a photo of your summer or winter (depending on what hemisphere you're in!) plans - or a recent trip you've taken. Beach days, mountain getaways, a cozy staycation, a spontaneous weekend trip... whatever adventure you've got, we wanna see it! 📸✨✈️🏖️🏔️In case you didn’t know...we're running a BINGO contest this month! 🎉 There are 3 Questions of the Week total (August 10, 17, 24). Answering each one earns you a square on your card, as noted in the post title. Drop your answer below with a photo and you're one step closer to BINGO! New to the Question of the Week?Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value) - plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month's Questions of the Week by August 31st at 5:00 PM PDT

Hi everyone! Where in the world are you working from this week? 🌍 Show us your setup — whether that's HQ, a home office, out in the field, a cozy cafe, or somewhere totally unexpected!We've asked a version of this question before, but with so many new faces in the community since then, we figured it was worth bringing back — plus, who knows, your workspace might look a little different this time around. 👀In case you didn't know...we're running a BINGO contest this month! 🎉 There are 3 Questions of the Week total (August 10, 17, 24). Answering each week's question earns you a square on your card, as noted in the post title.Drop your answer below with a photo and you're one step closer to BINGO!New to the Question of the Week?Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusiv

Hi all! Do you have questions about MCP for Real-World Data? This is your chance to ask them—live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments by Monday, August 31, and our team will answer them live!Webinar DetailsWednesday, September 2 from 8:00am–9:00am PDT REGISTER HEREWhat we'll coverMCP's real test isn't clean APIs, it's whether an AI agent can reach the data that's actually hard to work with: geospatial data, legacy formats, data locked behind a firewall. That's what Safe has spent 25+ years solving with FME, and it's where we're taking MCP next.Our experts ​@donatsafe, ​@NickAtSafe, ​@dylan.at.safe & ​@aaron.hillier are ready for an open Q&A on everything MCP.You'll leave with:A clear answer to what MCP is and why it matters, beyond the hype What it really takes to connect AI agents to complex, protected, and legacy data Practical examples of MCP in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid setups Answ

Happy National Dog Day 🐶At Safe Software, we know data isn’t dry - and today we’re proving it with a little fun! To celebrate, we paired some of our favourite data types with their perfect canine counterpart, based on the personality traits they share.Think: Golden Retriever = Relational Data ➡️ friendly, trusting, and always ready to share! 🐕✨Watch the video here. Then tell us in the comments below: what’s your dog data type?  Earn Square 23 in FME Community Bingo!We’re celebrating summer with a fun surprise - FME Community Bingo!From August 11 to August 31, 2025, we’re inviting all FME users to join in on a fun and interactive way to connect with fellow members of the FME Community.Whether you’re answering a question, uploading an image, or participating in a team challenge, each completed task earns you a square on the Bingo board - and every square is a chance to win exciting prizes! Answer this Question of the Week to cross off Square 23 on the Bingo board.

What’s the funniest (or most unexpected) response you’ve gotten from FME’s AI Assist? Share your answer in the comments below. Maybe you’ve asked it to reply in Shakespearean verse like ​@mark2atsafe (a description of what Mark’s SlackConnector did in his workspace, as a Shakespeare sonnet):Earn Square 5 in FME Community Bingo!We’re celebrating summer with a fun surprise - FME Community Bingo!From August 11 to August 31, 2025, we’re inviting all FME users to join in on a fun and interactive way to connect with fellow members of the FME Community.Whether you’re answering a question, uploading an image, or participating in a team challenge, each completed task earns you a square on the Bingo board - and every square is a chance to win exciting prizes! Answer this Question of the Week to cross off Square 5 on the Bingo board.

Hey Community! Got questions about performance, scaling, and optimization? This is your chance to ask them, live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments by Tuesday, August 4 at 3PM PDT, and our team will answer them live!Webinar DetailsAugust 5, 2026 8:00am–9:00am PDTREGISTER HEREWhat we'll coverA workspace that took 20 minutes on a desktop now takes 2 hours in production, and nobody is sure why. The reader looks fine. The transformers look fine. Somewhere between the data coming in and the results going out, time is disappearing, and the usual fix of adding more hardware is not always the answer.Our presenters ​@markwatsafe, ​@shirleychan, ​@ali-safe & ​@crystalwang are ready to dive in to:Best practices when upgrading workspaces Optimizing Flow resources and usage Diagnosing and debugging workspace performance problems Weighing cost and architecture choices: on-premise vs. cloud, vertical vs. hor

Hi everyone! A new job. A promotion. A project that changed everything. Sometimes a tool does more than the work. It changes the trajectory. 🚀  How has FME shaped your career path and did it open doors you didn't expect? Drop your FME career story in the comments below! 📢 P.S. The Talent Exchange just got some big updates. Safe Software will now post open roles there, it's open to any organization hiring for FME work (not just partners), and freelancers can now post their availability for contract work. Whether you're hiring or looking, check it out! 💡 New to the Question of the Week? Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value) — plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month's Questions of the Week by June 30th at 5:00 PM P

Hey Community! Got questions about automations and event-driven workflows? This is your chance to ask them—live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments by Monday, July 6, and our team will answer them live!Webinar DetailsJuly 8, 2026 8:00am–9:00am PDT REGISTER HEREWhat we'll coverAn automation that ran perfectly yesterday can break this morning, and the answer is rarely in the workspace itself. It's in a token that expired, an SMTP port that closed, a webhook that fired twice, or an IT policy that changed overnight. Whether the workflow is a scheduled feature service refresh, a webhook from a field-collection app, or an event-driven model run on FME Flow Hosted, the failure modes look the same once production starts.Our presenters ​@carlw, ​@kate-safe, ​@desiree_at_safe & ​@markwatsafe are ready to dive in to:Authentication Automation best practices Automation resilience and troubleshooting And mor

Hi everyone! The FIFA World Cup is about to kick off! ⚽🌍  In honour of the occasion, if FME had a starting lineup, which transformer would be your star player and why? Drop your pick below and don't forget to tell us who you're cheering for this tournament! 🏆💡 New to the Question of the Week? Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value) — plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month's Questions of the Week by June 30th at 5:00 PM PDT to be entered into the draw.🎖️ Answer your first question to earn the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge — and keep it up to reach the Socializer (Talker) badge after five answers!

We're making a small but exciting change. Our forum formerly known as "Question of the Week" is getting a new name: Community Corner!As our community has grown and evolved, so has the content being shared in this space. While Question of the Week will absolutely continue, we felt the name no longer captured everything happening right here. Community Corner better reflects the vibrant, engaging hub this forum has become.So what can you expect to see here going forward?Question of the Week — your favourite discussion prompt isn't going anywhere Fun Competitions — we have some exciting challenges in store that you won't want to miss Ask Me Anything Webinars — get your burning questions answered directly by our team and special guestsStay tuned for more fun we have planned this year! 😊

Hey FME Community,If you haven't come across Matt Parker before, he's a mathematician and stand-up comedian whose YouTube channel Stand-up Maths has over 1.3 million subscribers. He's one of the most popular maths communicators on the internet. His recent video, "What is up with UK bridge height signs?", digs into a genuinely fascinating quirk of UK infrastructure that I think will resonate with anyone in this community.UK bridge height restriction signs display limits in both metres and feet/inches. Per the Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 4, each measurement is taken independently, then separately rounded down for safety (3 inches in imperial, 0.1 m in metric). Because the two rounding schemes step at different intervals, the same physical bridge can produce signs that read, say, 4.1 m / 13'6" in one location and 4.1 m / 13'3" in another, and both are technically correct.Matt's collaborator Adam Townsend mapped every theoretically possible metric/imperial combination and has been hunting

Hi all! It was a big hit last year, so we're bringing it back! This week we're playing This or That — pick your favourites and drop them in the comments below. 🎉This week's Question of the Week: This or That!Tester or TestFilter Beach or Mountains Dark Mode or Light Mode Morning Person or Night OwlNo wrong answers — but we do want receipts! 🧾 Tell us your picks and feel free to defend your choices in the comments!💡 New to the Question of the Week? Each week, we post a simple but thought-provoking question. It might be about your FME journey, the power of spatial data, FME innovation, or even a little something personal like this one.Every answer you share earns you an entry in our monthly draw for exclusive Safe swag (a $50 value) — plus points toward community badges!🗓️ Answer all of this month's Questions of the Week by May 31st at 5:00 PM PST to be entered into the draw.🎖️ Answer your first question to earn the Socializer (Ice Breaker) badge — and keep it up to reach the Social

Hey Community! Got questions about Real-Time Data and Streaming? This is your chance to ask them—live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments by Monday, June 8, and our team will answer them live!Webinar Details June 10, 2026 8:00am–9:00am PDT | 11:00am–12:00pm EDTREGISTER HEREWhat we'll cover In this live AMA, we'll answer your questions about how FME handles real-time data and streaming — from event-driven workflows and IoT integrations to APIs and moving beyond batch processing.Our presenters ​@matt.m-at-safe, ​@timatsafe, & ​@toyosia are ready to dive in to:Working with real-time data in FME Streaming and event-driven workflows Exploring IoT integrations Working with APIs Moving beyond batch processingCome ready with questions and leave with direct, candid answers. Drop your questions below by Monday, June 8, 2026.See you there!

Whether you’ve been part of the FME Community for a few months or a few years, you remember what it felt like to be brand new - the questions, the learning curve, and the moments where everything finally clicked.Now, you have the chance to be that moment for someone else.We’ve created a new onboarding guide for FME users, built from real stories, tips, and experiences from the community and we’d love for you to be part of it by contributing a short video. Your voice could be one of the first things a new user sees, helping them navigate FME with more confidence and clarity from day one.Share what you’ve learned. Help someone get there faster.How It WorksWe’re using Vocal Video, a super simple, browser-based tool (no downloads or accounts needed).Just:Choose 1-2 questions that resonate with you (see below) Click the link below for the question(s) you’d like to answer (each has a separate collector) Record your response (30–60 seconds is perfect!)Submit your video by April 21.You can go

Hey Community! Got questions about AI Workflows? This is your chance to ask them—live.Join us for another Ask Me Anything webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments by May 3, and our team will answer them live.Webinar DetailsAsk Me Anything About AI WorkflowsThursday, May 7, 20268:00am-9:00am PDT, 11:00am-12:00pm EDTREGISTER HERE What we’ll coverIn this live AMA, we'll answer your questions about how FME enables a flexible, production-ready Any AI platform strategy — from AI Assist and MCP to connectors like Gemini, Azure, and OpenAI.Our presenters ​@davechoi, ​@desiree_at_safe, ​@crystalwang & ​@sanaeatsafe are ready to dive in into:Data Enrichment MCP Agentic Workflows Data Governance and AI Security AI Deployment Options in FMECome ready with questions and leave with direct, candid answers. Drop your questions below by Monday, May 4, 2026.See you there!

Hey Community! Got questions about data integration? This is your chance to ask them—live.We’re hosting a special Ask Me Anything (AMA) webinar where your questions drive the conversation. Drop your questions in the comments, and our team will answer them live.Webinar DetailsAsk Me Anything About Data IntegrationWednesday, April 1, 20268:00am-9:00am PDT, 11:00am-12:00pm EDTREGISTER HERE What we’ll coverThis AMA is designed to tackle everything from foundational concepts to modern challenges like automation, APIs, real-time data, and data quality—based entirely on what you want to know.Our presenters ​@evieatsafe, ​@crystalwang, ​@shirleychan & ​@carlw are ready to dive into: ​Fundamentals & definitions Workflows Authoring Industry-specific questionsDrop your questions below by March 30, 2026.Come ready, get answers, and walk away with practical insights you can apply right away.See you there!