On Code and People

June 18th, 2021

I’m proud to to announce that as of last week, our esteemed community member, long-time contributor and all-around champion of open source Saijin_Naib has become the first non-developer paid contributor to be sponsored by UAV4GEO. He’s no stranger to OpenDroneMap. He has been involved with the project for a long time and has demonstrated incredible enthusiasm across these years while helping people, rallying for fundraising rounds and advocating for a world with more free and open source software. UAV4GEO is […]

The road to run everywhere: Native WebODM on Windows

June 2nd, 2021

One of the cool things about open source software is that it has a tendency to eventually run everywhere. If you have the source code available and certain constraints allow it, with sufficient time a port can be made to different platforms. This is not always the case with proprietary software, where the vendor decides which platforms to support. In the beginning, ODM could only run on Ubuntu Linux. Later, we opted to leverage docker, which is an amazing (yet […]