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The race is over, and the 328 balloons have ‘landed’!Over the past two weeks, FME users from around the globe took to the virtual skies in our 12 Days of FME Contest. Pilots navigated their virtual hot air balloons in an epic journey powered by FME Flow - racing for distance, speed, and more.Now, it’s time to announce the winners!Top Point Scorer: With an impressive 330 points, Team Cloudchaser (@holdsy) takes the top spot and wins a stunning Mova Globe!Second Place: With 308 points, Team Community Cats (@cmkenned7) claims second place and also wins a Mova Globe.Furthest Distance: Team Boskalis (@nielsgerrits) travelled the furthest distance of 34,901.9 km and wins a $50 Amazon gift card.Fastest Balloon: Team Jessica (@jessicap) travelled at the fastest speed of 374.6 kph and wins a $50 Amazon gift card.Country Flyovers: Flying over an impressive 32 countries, Team CloudConnector (@ulfme) takes the prize for most countries crossed and wins a $50 Amazon gift card.Safe Office: Team
I updated the pfx cetificate file according to this :Configuring for HTTPSBasically updating these lines i server.xml: keystoreFile="<file>"keystorePass="<password>"Now apps complains about REST API? Why? - what to do?
Hi FME Community,Gartner has opened nominations for the 2025 Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards - a prestigious opportunity for organizations to gain industry-wide recognition for their most impactful innovations.If you’ve been involved in building innovative solutions with your organization in any of the industries below, we encourage you to submit for this award:Government Advanced Manufacturing Banking & Investing Communication Service Providers Education Healthcare & Life Sciences Power & Utilities Oil & Gas Mid-size Enterprises, and more📅 Submissions are due by May 30🔎 Judging takes place in June/July🏆 Winners are announced in September/OctoberThis is a great opportunity to showcase the innovative work you’ve done, gain global industry recognition, and learn from other pioneering initiatives.Find full details and submit here.
Hi All, I have just noticed that the FME community platform isn’t updating profiles after publishing a new question? see below, I have posted 59 questions but my profile only shows 57 which is annoying as I can’t find my latest questions on the board. I have logged out and signed-in again but didn’t fix the problem :(Any ideas why this happened?
Hi FME Community, We’re changing things up for this week’s Question of the Week! We’re introducing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) format with FME Evangelist @mark2atsafe.First up: Dynamic Workflows.Have questions about dynamic workflows in FME? Drop them below, and Mark will answer them next week with the help of support team member @danminneyatsaf . We’re excited to try this out and plan to cover more topics in future AMAs - so stay tuned!Update on February 4, 2025: Check out the video response from @mark2atsafe and @danminneyatsaf here.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 January Questions of the Week by January 31 at 5:00 pm PDT to be entered in this month’s draw.Answer your first ques
Hi FME Community, We wanted to share some recent updates from our community platform provider, Gainsight, along with the steps we're taking to enhance spam prevention and keep the FME Community safe and engaging for everyone!Spam PreventionTo strengthen our spam prevention, we’ve added an extra layer of moderator approval. If you signup for a community account using a disposable email service like Gmail or Outlook, your account will now be placed in a queue for moderator approval.It will help us to approve your application if you include information in your profile fields:If your email address is anonymous, and you don't put any information into your profile fields, your account may be banned and not approved.Closing QuestionsAt Safe, we like to ensure that every question on the community gets some form of answer. But, sometimes we miss a ‘new’ question, because it is posted as a comment under an existing thread.To help prevent that, we’ve started to automatically close questions that
Welcome to our February FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Hans van der Maarel @redgeographics What’s your name?Hans van der MaarelWhat company do you currently work for? Red Geographics What’s your current job role and title? OwnerTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I'm the owner and founder of Red Geographics, a Dutch FME partner. My work with FME is primarily aimed at helping our customers (and the larger community) by thinking up exercises for our training courses, use-cases, proof-of-concepts, tech support and basically lots of clever ways of using FME.Why did you join the FME Community?I joined the first, I guess, incarnation of the FME Community, on Yahoo Groups because I thought it was a good way to get better with FME and help out others at the
Hello FME friends.Here is a video recording of Dan and I answering your recent questions about dynamic workflows. I hope you find it useful and/or interesting. I apologize for the poor video quality of my side of the conversation. It’s my first time recording a meeting like this. I hope to sort it out for future recordings.
Safe Software invites you to join us for the FME Breakfast of Champions with CEO and Co-Founder Don Murray: Thursday, February 27 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at the Safe offices in Surrey, BC.Connect with other data enthusiasts, exchange knowledge, and see what's possible with FME.Here's what to expect:Breakfast and Networking: Enjoy a delicious light breakfast as you connect with other data enthusiasts. FME Update and Customer Stories: Hear directly from our team on what's new in FME, including the latest updates and enhancements, and the future direction of Safe and FME. Plus, you'll get a look into our Winner's Circle, featuring customer success stories. User Story: A local user will share the unique ways they use FME to drive their business forward. Share Knowledge: We'll close with additional time to connect with other attendees and Safe staff to share your data challenges and opportunities. Go home with goodies! Attendees can expect to take home some FME swag with them.Register her
We’re taking a moment to celebrate some incredible members of our community who have gone above and beyond in their learning journey.These FME users have officially earned the Gold Webinar Watcher Badge - meaning they’ve watched 50 Safe Software webinars! There are only 10 users in the entire community with this badge - congratulations to:@vvv @sigbono @danii @gbj1717 @j.botterill @dana @geomancer @geogaard @hlouie @danilo_fme And a special shoutout to @dana who has reached the Platinum Badge level for watching 100+ webinars!Here’s what Elizabeth Hamming (@ehamming), who runs our webinar program, has to say about this milestone...If you’re looking to level up your FME skills, our webinar series is the perfect way to do it! With 300+ live and on-demand sessions, you’ll gain the insights you need to tackle your biggest data challenges - straight from our experts and fellow FME users.Tip: At the end of each webinar, you’ll receive a reward code. Make sure to redeem it
How did you engage with the FME Community in 2024?Now you can find out with your 2024 FME Community End-of-Year Recap! Built by @mark2atsafe, the recap page is powered by FME and integrates it with the same type of custom community pages as the 12 Days of FME Contest.Check out your personalized stats here, including:Questions Asked & Answered Votes on Your Questions Your Most Upvoted Question Categories You Contributed To Events You Attended General Stats for the FME CommunityYou must be logged in to see your stats - otherwise, you’ll get a fun look at the FME Lizard’s activity instead. See how you compare!For this week’s Question of the Week: Share some highlights from your 2024 recap in the comments below.Thank you for being part of the FME Community in 2024! We hope you found it valuable and inspiring, and we can't wait to see what you do in 2025.
Hi FME Community! Happy New Year. We hope you enjoyed a warm and happy holiday season! In the spirit of the new year, this week’s Question of the Week is: What’s your New Year’s resolution when it comes to using FME? Are there new skills you want to learn? Features you’d love to explore? Improvements you’d like to see in the product? Tell us 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 January Questions of the Week by January 31 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.