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Winter 2026 Sprint Recap – GeoBlacklight v5.2

Summary

Building on the momentum of last year’s GeoBlacklight v5 release, community members from across the continent came together between January 26-30, 2026, for a week-long virtual sprint dedicated to GeoBlacklight development. Work included updating the GeoBlacklight v5.x codebase, preparing for v6, bringing the documentation up-to-date, and starting discussions around the next generation of OGM metadata. We held daily standups so contributors could share what projects they were working on asynchronously throughout the week.

Winter 2024 Sprint Wrap-up - GeoBlacklight v4.2

📌 Summary

The GeoBlacklight Community conducted a two-week sprint from January 29 to February 9, 2024, culminating in the release of a new version of GeoBlacklight. This update not only brings maintenance enhancements but also introduces new viewers for COGs, PMTiles, and IIIF Manifests. Additionally, the community has made substantial improvements to the documentation, making it easier to maintain and more informative for new users.

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Winter sprint 2023

The latest sprint resulted in several new outcomes: a metadata field, multiple documentation pages, a release of the Sidecar Images plugin, and a dockerized container for GeoBlacklight.

GeoBlacklight Community Sprint Recap, Winter 2022

The latest GeoBlacklight Community Sprint took place from February 14-25, 2022. Long time GeoBlacklight sprinters have noted that this was likely our most productive event and undoubtedly featured the most active participants. We had over a dozen participants representing Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton, Stanford, UMass Amherst, and the University of Minnesota / Big Ten Academic Alliance. Moreover, five contributors made their very first code commits to GeoBlacklight during this event.