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Image: Dr. Jane Goodall sitting in a chair, smiling. Text reads "Dr. Jane Goodall 1934-2025"

Dr. Jane Goodall was an extraordinary champion for nature, and we are truly grateful for her lifelong commitment to making the world a better place. She holds a special place at Esri as a friend and advocate for using technology to understand and protect our world. Jane will be deeply missed and her legacy, and the inspiration she instilled, will always remain in our hearts.

Meet Tiffany Wu, a Senior GIS Specialist at Montgomery Parks who partnered with the park’s Community Gardens program to transform the way they manage affordable growing space for Maryland residents. In this Member Spotlight, Tiffany shares how using tools like ArcGIS Survey123 and ArcGIS Instant Apps to automate their garden inspection process enabled the Community Gardens team to reclaim weeks of time for other priorities, decreased the need for violation notices to gardeners, and boosted participant retention. Tiffany discusses Esri Community's role in this work by supporting her professional growth and helping her build the technical applications crucial to the Community Gardens program. 

These etiquette expectations elaborate on Esri Community's guiding principles: "Be helpful. Be human. Be smart." This supplemental messaging reinforces the safe, professional, and collaborative nature of this shared platform in support of our global network of members.

Due to recent and unforeseeable changes in the platform environment, the Esri Community team has decided to pause the Esri Community Aurora platform update.

We've more than passed the half way point for the annual Esri Community Contest. See this mid-point update to learn who currently holds a place on the leaderboards for each of the contest's three categories ...

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how Esri Community members can mark answers to their questions as "Accepted Solutions," making them easier for others to find and giving the people who helped them credit for the assistance.

See Esri Community's quarterly update detailing what members have helped accomplish while finding solutions, sharing ideas, and collaborating to solve problems through the use of GIS.

Before his colleagues arrive at the office, City of Arlington, Texas GIS Developer Jeffrey Thompson is already online—warming up for the day by helping others in Esri Community. In this feature, Jeffrey shares how his daily rituals in Esri Community have helped him sidestep technical roadblocks, make valuable connections with Esri staff, and pioneer a REST endpoint integration that feeds Virtual Map, a central data repository for the city's GIS database that he estimates saves Arlington citizens millions of dollars a year.

Hi everyone,  

My name is Nairi, and I am the new Community Manager for ArcGIS Ideas. Each one of you brings valuable expertise and a unique perspective to the Esri Community, and I’m here to foster conversation between the community about how we innovate the ArcGIS platform for you and your organizations.  

ArcGIS Ideas exists to surface real challenges and bring them into the product conversation in a way that is visible and actionable. My role is to design and implement strategies, structure, and momentum to that process, so the best ideas rise to the surface and help shape what is next. I’ve seen how a well-written idea can clarify user needs and help teams align around shared priorities. 

I have spent the last few years at Esri working with Technical Support, as an analyst and training lead, always at the intersection of real user experience and ArcGIS products. I’ve had thousands of interactions with many geospatial professionals from my time as a Support Analyst that have given me a deeper understanding and appreciation of your experience with ArcGIS— especially when it doesn’t work the way you want it to.  

I’m passionate about user experience, and I’m excited about where we can elevate and improve the entire ArcGIS Ideas program. I have many ideas about Ideas and I’m sure you do too— I want to hear them!  

If you are attending the Esri User Conference, I would love to meet with you. Come say hello, share your feedback, or ask what’s next for ArcGIS Ideas. 

Thank you for being part of Esri Community. I’m looking forward to what we will build together.  

See you at UC,  

Nairi Sevajian

For the first time, Esri has curated this collection of captivating, true GIS stories from Esri Community members into a digital book made free to download!