Birk Skyum

Bio

Birk Skyum

Member of the Governing Board

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Hi, I’m Birk. I’m a board member and a frequent contributor in MapLibre. I focus on getting the long-term decisions right, and on areas that are always of interest to us, such as higher performance, modernizing our stack, making workflows more intuitive and fostering collaboration amongst people and teams in the open ecosystem.

The world is changing so fast, and I believe MapLibre has this unique position as an open ecosystem to support high-quality geospatial visualizations across sciences, politics, tech and arts. I think it’s more important that ever to support this effort.

Articles

  • New People Joining the Maplibre Team
    · 2 minutes read

    Three new people have joined the MapLibre Team. Please give them a warm welcome!

    Isaac Besora has joined MapLibre as Graphics Engineer. His initial focus will be improvements in MapLibre GL JS in particular in the areas of Terrain 3D and the new Globe feature. Isaac brings expertise in graphics programming into the MapLibre Organization which is a central skill to what we are doing.

  • Mappedin joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
    · 1 minutes read

    Mappedin joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program at the Silver tier.



    With a yearly donation of USD $10,000, Mappedin supports the maintenance of MapLibre’s codebases and ensures a stable future for the project.

  • MapLibre GL JS v3
    · 4 minutes read

    This release is a big step for MapLibre GL JS! With more than 500 commits, and almost a year in the making, version 3.0.0 is surely our best release yet. Lots of features, performance improvement, bug fixes and a few potentially breaking changes that were necessary, to keep the project healthy, are to be found here.