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		<title>OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Due to COVID-19 the Annual OSGeo Code Sprint will take place online in 2020 - November 17-18-19&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Purpose ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial &lt;br /&gt;
problems as in previous years: &lt;br /&gt;
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sponsors == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; &amp;lt;big&amp;gt;Gold Sponsors&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:GC-Group logo.png|220px|GeoCue|link=http://www.geocue.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.geocue.com/&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:safe-software-logo.png|220px|Safe Software|link=https://www.safe.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://www.safe.com/&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:RIEGL.png|310px|RIEGL|link=http://www.riegl.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.riegl.com/&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; &amp;lt;big&amp;gt;Silver Sponsors&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Hobulogo.png|160px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://hobu.co/&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Bh-logo.jpg|300px|link=https://www.bhinc.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[https://www.bhinc.com/ https://www.bhinc.com/]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Crunchydata.png|160px|CrunchyData||link=http://www.crunchydata.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.crunchydata.com/ http://www.crunchydata.com/]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Gaia3D.png|240px|Gaia3D||link=https://gaia3d.com/en/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[https://gaia3d.com/en/ https://gaia3d.com/en/]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; &amp;lt;big&amp;gt;Bronze Sponsors&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:CoordinateSolutions_TRANS.png|210px|link=http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/ http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|140px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Pixel8_logo_full.png|140px|link=https://www.pixel8.earth/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[https://www.pixel8.earth/ https://www.pixel8.earth/]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Azavea-logo.png|160px|link=https://www.azavea.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[https://www.azavea.com/ https://www.azavea.com/]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Greenwood_logo.png|210px|link=https://greenwoodmap.com/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[https://greenwoodmap.com/ https://greenwoodmap.com/]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Dates and Times ==&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
* Date: Nov 17-19&lt;br /&gt;
* Time: 08:00 UTC to 24:00 UTC, projects can plan all 24h if that fits their schedule/time zone.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Schedule ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Kick off meeting each day around 8:00am UTC&lt;br /&gt;
* Welcome session Tue Nov 17 13:00 UTC (will be recorded on YouTube)&lt;br /&gt;
* Daily report every day around 22:00pm UTC&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Events in November 2020 ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* ''please add your event''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Location ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Main zoom channel for kick off and daily reports [https://zoom.us/j/95817956179?pwd=VGROK0NVK2lTaDg4eHJkdW1IdWNlUT09 https://zoom.us/j/95817956179?pwd=VGROK0NVK2lTaDg4eHJkdW1IdWNlUT09]&lt;br /&gt;
* Jitsi channels will be listed here by projects&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/tosprint (social channel for free discussion)&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo (generic OSGeo channel)&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoBoard (Board sprint room)&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/OGC-API (generic OGC APIs channel, SWGs can spin their own channel e.g. https://meet.jit.si/OGC-API-Features)&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/QGIS&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/PostGIS&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/GEOS&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/GeoServer&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/MapServer&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/GRASS&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoLive&lt;br /&gt;
** https://meet.jit.si/geopython (channel for pycsw, pygeoapi, pygeometa, GeoNode, OWSLib, GeoHealthCheck, MapProxy development, other geopython projects are welcome)&lt;br /&gt;
** TEAM Engine (scheduled [https://github.com/opengeospatial/cite/wiki/TEAM-Engine-at-the-OSGeo-Virtual-Community-Sprint-2020#teleconference-schedule Gotomeeting] sessions)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Project Plans ==&lt;br /&gt;
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''OSGeoLive''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Work towards 14.0 release&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''PostGIS''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Work towards PostGIS 3.1.0 in Sept/Oct&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''GEOS''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Work towards 3.9.0 release&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''GeoServer MapML Community Module''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Validate / socialize concepts, work toward extension module status&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''GRASS GIS''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Addons improvements&lt;br /&gt;
** Translation&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''TEAM Engine''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Progress towards OSGeo graduation (details [https://github.com/opengeospatial/cite/wiki/TEAM-Engine-at-the-OSGeo-Virtual-Community-Sprint-2020 here])&lt;br /&gt;
** Executable Test Suites for OGC APIs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Participants ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; class=&amp;quot;wikitable sortable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|No&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Name&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;100&amp;quot;|Country&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Email&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Organisation&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Projects&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Tue&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Wed&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Thu&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1 || [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 2 || [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || Michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com || USACE || pdal, gdal, mapserver || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 3 || [[User:prushforth|Peter Rushforth]] || CA || peter.rushforth(at)gmail.com || W3C Maps for HTML Community Group|| GeoServer MapML Community Module || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 4 || [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] || IT || lucadeluge@gmail.com || Fondazione Edmund Mach || GRASS GIS, pyModis, OSGeoLive || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 5 || [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav Petras]] || US || wenzeslaus(at)gmail.com || North Carolina State University || GRASS GIS || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 6 || [[User:Sethg|Seth Girvin]] || FR/IE || sethg(at)geographika.co.uk || OSGeo || MapServer, OSGeoLive, GeoExt || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 7 || [[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]] || DE || astrid_emde (at) osgeo.org  || OSGeo || OSGeoLive || x starting at 14 UTC each day || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 8 || [[User:Veroandreo|Veronica Andreo]] || AR || veroandreo@gmail.com || Conicet || GRASS GIS || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 9 || [[User:Cvvergara|Vicky Vergara]] || MX || vicky@georepublic.de || OSGeo || OSGeoLive pgRouting MobilityDB || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 10 || [[User:Ghobona-ogc|Gobe Hobona]] || GB || ghobona (at) ogc.org || OGC || Team Engine and test suites of OGC APIs || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 11 || [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl (at) eox.at || EOX || Various as time permits || (x) || (x) || (x)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 12 || [[Markus_Neteler|Markus Neteler]] || AT || neteler (at) mundialis.de || mundialis || Various as time permits || (x) || (x) || (x)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 13 || [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis (at) gmail.com || OSGeo || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects || (x) || (x) || (x)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 14 || [[User:jerstlouis|Jerome St-Louis]] || CA || jerome (at) ecere.com || Ecere || Ecere SDK, GNOSIS SDK || (x) || (x) || (x)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 15 || [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]] || US || maplabs -at- light42 -dot- com || OSGeo || OSGeoLive, GEOS || (x) || (x) || (x)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 16 || [[User:T-book|Toni Schönbuchner]] || DE || toni.schoenbuchner -at- csgis -dot- de || csgis || GeoNode|| - || - || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 17 || [[User:PierreAbbat|Pierre Abbat]] || US || phma@bezitopo.org || OSGeo || OSGeoLive, PDAL || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 18 || [[User:dovsienko|Denis Ovsienko]] || UK || denis@ovsienko.info || || GRASS GIS || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 19 || [[Florian Hoedt]] || DE || florian.hoedt -at- thuenen.de || Thünen Institut || GeoNode || - || - || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 20 ||[[User:alexgleith|Alex Leith]] || AU || alexgleith@gmail.com || Geoscience Australia || The Open Data Cube || (x) || (x) || (x)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 21 ||[[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] || PT || jgr@geomaster.pt || Geomaster || QGIS Bug fixing || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 22 || [[User:chiossif|Christos Iosifidis]] || GR || chiossif(at)yahoo.com || NTUA, GRNET || OSGeoLive, GRASS GIS, SAGA GIS || x || x || x&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 23 || Add your details here ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Communication ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint&lt;br /&gt;
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net&lt;br /&gt;
* Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/Sprint&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sponsoring ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.&lt;br /&gt;
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place Nov 17-19, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This years' sprint will take place online.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What we can offer:&lt;br /&gt;
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint&lt;br /&gt;
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails&lt;br /&gt;
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our sponsorship levels:&lt;br /&gt;
* Gold: &amp;gt;= 2500 USD&lt;br /&gt;
* Silver: 1500 USD&lt;br /&gt;
* Bronze: 750 USD&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So...&lt;br /&gt;
* get your company talking to the top project developers.&lt;br /&gt;
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!&lt;br /&gt;
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you very much!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Event Owner ==&lt;br /&gt;
* OSGeo Board&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Press Release ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Code_Sprints]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>ChIossif</title>
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		<updated>2020-07-25T14:46:49Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;'''PERSONAL INFO'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* FULL NAME: Christos Iossifides (username chiossif)&lt;br /&gt;
* LOCATION: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens] (GR)&lt;br /&gt;
* PROFESSION: Laboratory Teaching Staff, Remote Sensing Instructor and Researcher at the [http://www.survey.ntua.gr/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=59&amp;amp;Itemid=55&amp;amp;lang=en Remote Sensing Laboratory] of the [http://www.ntua.gr National Technical University of Athens] and on contract scientific staff at [http://www.space.noa.gr/isars_central.htm Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing] of the [http://www.noa.gr/indexen.html National Observatory of Athens] and at [https://grnet.gr/en/company/ National Infrastructures for Research and Technology], Greece. Free Software Developer specializing in Remote Sensing and Geospatial applications.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
'''PERSONAL SITES'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html My personal page]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
'''CONTACT'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Tel:   +30 210 7722606&lt;br /&gt;
* Tel:   +30 699 7722606&lt;br /&gt;
* Email: [mailto:chiossif@gmail.com chiossif at gmail.com]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Greek]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2022&amp;diff=123007</id>
		<title>OSGeo Community Sprint 2022</title>
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		<updated>2020-01-14T09:41:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Event Owner */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Annual Code Sprint comes to Athens (Greece) in 2020!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Purpose ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial &lt;br /&gt;
problems as in previous years: &lt;br /&gt;
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sponsors == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; &amp;lt;big&amp;gt;Venue Sponsor&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:logo_daem.png|200px|Municipality of Athens, DAEM S.A.|link=https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Dates and Times ==&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
* Date: May 25-29 (5 days)&lt;br /&gt;
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Events from January to September 2020 ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://2020.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2020], August 24-29 in Calgary, Canada&lt;br /&gt;
* FOSS4G Europe 2020, July 13-18 (?) in Valmiera, Latvia&lt;br /&gt;
* ''please add your event''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Location ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.serafio.gr/portfolio/main-hall/ Serafio main hall], Municipality of Athens&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/37.97325/23.70656 OpenStreetMap]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Project Plans ==&lt;br /&gt;
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''OSGeoLive''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Work towards 14.0 release in August&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Participants ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; class=&amp;quot;wikitable sortable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|No&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Name&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;100&amp;quot;|Country&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Email&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Organisation&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Projects&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Mon&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Tue&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Wed&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Thu&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Fri&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;60&amp;quot;|Accommodation&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;60&amp;quot;|Likelihood&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;30&amp;quot;|Food Restrictions&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;60&amp;quot;|social event&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB ||  x  || x || x || x || x || booked || Organizer :) || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 2 ||[[User:tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis at gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Likely || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com || US Army Corps || PDAL, MapServer, proj, GDAL ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Likely || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 4 ||[[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] || CA || dmorissette at mapgears.com || Mapgears || MapServer, GDAL/OGR, MapML ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very Likely || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 5 ||[[User:Cvvergara|Vicky Vergara]] || MX || vicky at georepublic.de || Georepublic, OSGeo || pgRouting, OSGeoLive ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very Likely || No fish || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 6 ||[[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]] || DE || neteler at mundialis.de || mundialis || GRASS GIS,... ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 7 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl at eox.at || EOX IT Services GmbH || MapServer, EOxServer || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 8 ||[[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] || CA || pramsey at cleverelephant.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || ? || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 9 ||[[User:pierotofy|Piero Toffanin]] || US || pt at uav4geo.com || OpenDroneMap || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, rio-tiler, DroneDB || ? || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 10 ||[[User:hobu|Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PDAL, Entwine, DroneDB, GDAL, PROJ || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 11 ||Connor Manning || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entwine, PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 12 ||[[User:Chiossif|Christos Iossifides]] || GR || chiossif (at) gmail.com || NTUA || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || x || booked || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 13 ||[[User:Chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || brad.chambers at gmail.com || Grover Consulting Services || PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 14 ||[[User:Roelandtn|Nicolas Roelandt]] || FR || roelandtn.pro (at) gmail.com || self || OSGeoLive || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Communication ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint&lt;br /&gt;
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net&lt;br /&gt;
* Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/Sprint&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Costs ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participants should plan for the following costs:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Travel to Athens&lt;br /&gt;
* Accommodation for x nights &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Individual preparation ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Bring your own laptop&lt;br /&gt;
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schuko_plug_and_socket.png Greece]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/&lt;br /&gt;
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sponsoring ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.&lt;br /&gt;
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 25-29, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This years' sprint will take place in Athens and will be hosted by [https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/, Municipality of Athens] and organized by members of the local OSGeo Greek chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What we can offer:&lt;br /&gt;
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint&lt;br /&gt;
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails&lt;br /&gt;
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our sponsorship levels:&lt;br /&gt;
* Gold: &amp;gt;= 2500 USD&lt;br /&gt;
* Silver: 1500 USD&lt;br /&gt;
* Bronze: 750 USD&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So...&lt;br /&gt;
* get your company talking to the top project developers.&lt;br /&gt;
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!&lt;br /&gt;
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you very much!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Contact: To sponsor, please contact tosprint@lists.osgeo.org directly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Event Owner ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Chiossif|Christos Iossifides]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Press Release ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Code_Sprints]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2022&amp;diff=122930</id>
		<title>OSGeo Community Sprint 2022</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2022&amp;diff=122930"/>
		<updated>2020-01-07T22:19:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Participants */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Annual Code Sprint comes to Athens (Greece) in 2020!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Purpose ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial &lt;br /&gt;
problems as in previous years: &lt;br /&gt;
* [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019|Minnesota]] (2019)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sponsors == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; &amp;lt;big&amp;gt;Venue Sponsor&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:logo_daem.png|200px|Municipality of Athens, DAEM S.A.|link=https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Dates and Times ==&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
* Date: May 25-29 (5 days)&lt;br /&gt;
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Events from January to September 2020 ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://2020.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2020], August 24-29 in Calgary, Canada&lt;br /&gt;
* FOSS4G Europe 2020, July 13-18 (?) in Valmiera, Latvia&lt;br /&gt;
* ''please add your event''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Location ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.serafio.gr/portfolio/main-hall/ Serafio main hall], Municipality of Athens&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/37.97325/23.70656 OpenStreetMap]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Project Plans ==&lt;br /&gt;
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''OSGeoLive''':&lt;br /&gt;
** Work towards 14.0 release in August&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Participants ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; class=&amp;quot;wikitable sortable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|No&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Name&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;100&amp;quot;|Country&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Email&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Organisation&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;250&amp;quot;|Projects&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Mon&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Tue&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Wed&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Thu&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;25&amp;quot;|Fri&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;60&amp;quot;|Accommodation&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;60&amp;quot;|Likelihood&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;30&amp;quot;|Food Restrictions&lt;br /&gt;
!width=&amp;quot;60&amp;quot;|social event&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 1 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB ||  x  || x || x || x || x || booked || Organizer :) || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 2 ||[[User:tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis at gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Likely || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 3 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com || US Army Corps || PDAL, MapServer, proj, GDAL ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Likely || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 4 ||[[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] || CA || dmorissette at mapgears.com || Mapgears || MapServer, GDAL/OGR, MapML ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very Likely || No  || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 5 ||[[User:Cvvergara|Vicky Vergara]] || MX || vicky at georepublic.de || Georepublic, OSGeo || pgRouting, OSGeoLive ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very Likely || No fish || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 6 ||[[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]] || DE || neteler at mundialis.de || mundialis || GRASS GIS,... ||  x  || x || x || x || x || TBD || Likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 7 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl at eox.at || EOX IT Services GmbH || MapServer, EOxServer || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 8 ||[[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] || CA || pramsey at cleverelephant.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || ? || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 9 ||[[User:pierotofy|Piero Toffanin]] || US || pt at uav4geo.com || OpenDroneMap || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, rio-tiler, DroneDB || ? || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 10 ||[[User:hobu|Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PDAL, Entwine, DroneDB, GDAL, PROJ || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 11 ||Connor Manning || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entwine, PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || TBD || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
| 12 ||[[User:Chiossif|Christos Iossifides]] || GR || chiossif (at) gmail.com || NTUA || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || x || booked || Very likely || No || x ||&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Communication ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint&lt;br /&gt;
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net&lt;br /&gt;
* Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/OSGeo/Sprint&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Costs ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Participants should plan for the following costs:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Travel to Athens&lt;br /&gt;
* Accommodation for x nights &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Individual preparation ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Bring your own laptop&lt;br /&gt;
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schuko_plug_and_socket.png Greece]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/&lt;br /&gt;
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sponsoring ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.&lt;br /&gt;
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 25-29, 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This years' sprint will take place in Athens and will be hosted by [https://www.cityofathens.gr/en/, Municipality of Athens] and organized by members of the local OSGeo Greek chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What we can offer:&lt;br /&gt;
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint&lt;br /&gt;
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails&lt;br /&gt;
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our sponsorship levels:&lt;br /&gt;
* Gold: &amp;gt;= 2500 USD&lt;br /&gt;
* Silver: 1500 USD&lt;br /&gt;
* Bronze: 750 USD&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So...&lt;br /&gt;
* get your company talking to the top project developers.&lt;br /&gt;
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!&lt;br /&gt;
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you very much!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Contact: To sponsor, please contact tosprint@lists.osgeo.org directly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Event Owner ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Press Release ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Code_Sprints]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78763</id>
		<title>User:Chiossif</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78763"/>
		<updated>2014-07-27T09:48:57Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;===Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ChIossif.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Chiossif]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: ATH, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural &amp;amp; Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[http://www.survey.ntua.gr/en/departments/topo/topo-labs/rslab.html] at NTUA[http://www.ntua.gr/index_en.html]. He is known in the digital world as ''chiossif'', an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&amp;amp;R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while &amp;quot;teaching&amp;quot; (as he describes his patter) for ''freedom, love and peace on earth'' is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(more)[http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:* Instructor, user and coder of  geo-''Free as in Freedom''-ware&lt;br /&gt;
:* Translator in Greek for OSGeoDVD &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (work): +30 210 772 2606&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: chiossif&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Spoken Language(s): Greek, English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Profile last updated: 27 July 2014&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78762</id>
		<title>User:Chiossif</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78762"/>
		<updated>2014-07-27T09:46:55Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;===Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis===&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:ChIossif.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Chiossif]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: ATH, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural &amp;amp; Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[http://www.survey.ntua.gr/en/departments/topo/topo-labs/rslab.html] at NTUA[http://www.ntua.gr/index_en.html]. He is known in the digital world as ''chiossif'', an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&amp;amp;R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while &amp;quot;teaching&amp;quot; (as he describes his patter) for ''freedom, love and peace on earth'' is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html | (more) ]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:* Instructor, user and coder of  geo-''Free as in Freedom''-ware&lt;br /&gt;
:* Translator in Greek for OSGeoDVD &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (work): +30 210 772 2606&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: chiossif&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Spoken Language(s): Greek, English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Profile last updated: 27 July 2014&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78761</id>
		<title>User:Chiossif</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78761"/>
		<updated>2014-07-27T09:46:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;===Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ChIossif.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Chiossif]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: ATH, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural &amp;amp; Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[http://www.survey.ntua.gr/en/departments/topo/topo-labs/rslab.html] at NTUA[http://www.ntua.gr/index_en.html]. He is known in the digital world as ''chiossif'', an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&amp;amp;R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while &amp;quot;teaching&amp;quot; (as he describes his patter) for ''freedom, love and peace on earth'' is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(more)[[more | http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:* Instructor, user and coder of  geo-''Free as in Freedom''-ware&lt;br /&gt;
:* Translator in Greek for OSGeoDVD &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (work): +30 210 772 2606&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: chiossif&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Spoken Language(s): Greek, English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Profile last updated: 27 July 2014&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78760</id>
		<title>User:Chiossif</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78760"/>
		<updated>2014-07-27T09:45:42Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;===Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ChIossif.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Chiossif]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: ATH, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural &amp;amp; Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[http://www.survey.ntua.gr/en/departments/topo/topo-labs/rslab.html] at NTUA[http://www.ntua.gr/index_en.html]. He is known in the digital world as ''chiossif'', an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&amp;amp;R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication and co-operation, while &amp;quot;teaching&amp;quot; (as he describes his patter) for ''freedom, love and peace on earth'' is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(more)[more | http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:* Instructor, user and coder of  geo-''Free as in Freedom''-ware&lt;br /&gt;
:* Translator in Greek for OSGeoDVD &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (work): +30 210 772 2606&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: chiossif&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Spoken Language(s): Greek, English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Profile last updated: 27 July 2014&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78759</id>
		<title>User:Chiossif</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chiossif&amp;diff=78759"/>
		<updated>2014-07-27T09:41:12Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: Created page with &amp;quot;===Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis===  Chiossif  Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR  Location: ATH, GR  Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural &amp;amp; Sur...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;===Christos 'Chiossif' Iosifidis===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ChIossif.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Chiossif]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Remote Sensing Tutor, NTUA, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: ATH, GR&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Christos Iosifidis is a Dipl.Rural &amp;amp; Surveying Eng. teaching at Remote Sensing Lab.[http://www.survey.ntua.gr/en/departments/topo/topo-labs/rslab.html] at NTUA[http://www.ntua.gr/index_en.html]. He is known in the digital world as '''chiossif''', an ardent promoter of free software and scholar of ancient codes in Fortran 77 and K&amp;amp;R's C. Moreover specializes in geoinformatics and generally in geo-art, in photo-topografy and photographic techniques, in geo-motion and generally dance on earth. Inappropriate for solving simple problems, because he always composes more complex ones and famed for his profuse rhetoric which in case of digital recording produces huge files due to the increased duration and complexity in composition. The contact with him gives new dimensions to understanding concepts like co-mmunication, co-operation, while &amp;quot;teaching&amp;quot; (as he describes his patter) for '''freedom, love and peace on earth''' is beyond any physical or logical limit. ( himself 2010 )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(more)[http://users.ntua.gr/chiossif/index-en.html]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience (optionally add icons here)&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;
Copy relevant images to the end of the &amp;quot;OSGeo Experience&amp;quot; line above:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include one of these icons if an OSGeo Board member or Ex-Board member: &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_board.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_exboard.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include if an OSGeo Charter member: &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include one of these icons if a chair or member of an OSGeo Committee(s): &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_chair.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include one of these icons if on the Project Steering Committee or a coder on a graduated or incubating OSGeo project: &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include if a practitioner with significant experience using at least one of the OSGeo applications.&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include if a translator of OSGeo-Live or one of the OSGeo projects.&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:OSGeo_translate.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Include if a SolKatz award recipient&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:SolKatz.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Sol_Katz_Award]]&lt;br /&gt;
--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:&lt;br /&gt;
:* Instructor, user and coder of  geo - 'Free as in Freedom' Software&lt;br /&gt;
:* Translator in Greek for OSGeoDVD &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: chiossif AT gmail DOT com&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (work): +30 210 772 2606&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: chiossif&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Spoken Language(s): Greek, English&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Profile last updated: 27 July 2014&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_Advocate&amp;diff=78758</id>
		<title>OSGeo Advocate</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_Advocate&amp;diff=78758"/>
		<updated>2014-07-27T09:39:11Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;__FORCETOC__&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Introduction =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have volunteered to talk on behalf of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo foundation]. Advocates should be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative figures within most countries.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Process for becoming an OSGeo Advocate =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anyone fitting one of the [[OSGeo_Advocate#Understanding_OSGeo_roles|OSGeo Advocate categories]], may put themselves forward as an OSGeo Advocate. To do so, you will need to:&lt;br /&gt;
* Create an OSGeo wiki account, to edit this wiki (See &amp;quot;login&amp;quot; link in top right of this page).&lt;br /&gt;
* Add a portrait photo of yourself using the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Upload Upload file] link in left margin in each page.&lt;br /&gt;
* Create a new wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:YourOSGeoWikiUserName, and populate as per [[User:Template]], (copy and paste from the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Template&amp;amp;action=edit source] so that you see comments in the template).&lt;br /&gt;
* You can then add your profile on [[OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Advocates|this wiki page]], under your Region:Country, names ordered alphabetically by First name, using the following:&lt;br /&gt;
  {{User:&amp;lt;YourOSGeoWikiUserName&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Annual Refresh of Advocate list =&lt;br /&gt;
* The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Advocates =&lt;br /&gt;
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== Advocate Map ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;!-- {{#umAllUserMap: width|height|zoom|centerat|baselayer|navbar}} --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{#umAllUserMap:}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Africa:Ghana ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Eyedol}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Africa:South Africa ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Gavin Fleming ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Gfleming}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Sokolic}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Timlinux}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Asia:India ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:ravivundavalli}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Asia:Japan ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Yoichi}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:danielkastl}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Tosseto}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[http://cse.niaes.affrc.go.jp/niwasaki/ Nobusuke Iwasaki]===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Iwasaki.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Nobusuke Iwasaki]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Senior Researcher, [http://www.niaes.affrc.go.jp/index_e.html National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: Tsukuba, Japan&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nobusuke Iwasaki is researcher of land use change and rural planning and extensively using FOSS4G. Also, he is one of the main organizers of FOSS4G-Japan event and proactively commits promotion and dissemination of FOSS4G, especially academic sector. He strongly contributes [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g-mext/ some academic project which aims utilization of satellite image and FOSS4G for beginners and non-specialist user]. &lt;br /&gt;
The major his product is [http://habs.dc.affrc.go.jp Historical Agro-Environmental Browsing System (HABS)], which is commended [http://psgsv2.gsi.go.jp/koukyou/G-award/list_award1.html the first Cyber Japan Award].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:&lt;br /&gt;
:* [http://www.osgeo.jp/ OSGeo Japan Chapter] Board member since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
:* member of [http://www.gisa-japan.org/  GIS Assosiation of JAPAN] &lt;br /&gt;
:* member of [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gsig/ FOSS4G special interest group]  in GIS Assosiation of JAPAN&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: wata909 AT gmail DOT com&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: wata909&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;Profile last updated&lt;br /&gt;
:2013-07-11&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Asia:Korea ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Sanghee}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Asia:Philippines==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Maning}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Asia:Malaysia ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Thuygeo}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Australia ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:camerons}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:NathanW}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:jive}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Canada ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Dmorissette}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Aross}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Gzeiss}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Mdavis}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Pwramsey3}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Simonmercier}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Europe:Belgium ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Dirkf}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Johanvdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Pieterdg}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Europe:Czech Republic ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Jachym}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:KarelCharvat}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Europe:France ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:Djay}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:JRM}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:grizonnetm}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:NBozon}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{User:volaya}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Gérald Fenoy.jpg|thumb|right|100px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Founder and CEO of [http://www.geolabs.fr GeoLabs SARL].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: Lattes, France.&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://www.zoo-project.org ZOO-Project] Developper and PSC Chair,&lt;br /&gt;
* Creator of the original [http://www.postgis.fr french web site for PostGIS], &lt;br /&gt;
* Provide training, use and develop (WEB-)GIS applications based on OSGeo Libraries / Applications,&lt;br /&gt;
* Active in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Senegalease OSGeo Senegal Local chapter],&lt;br /&gt;
* Provide Gentoo packaging and patches for proj, geos, postgis, pgRouting, mapserver and gpsbabel,&lt;br /&gt;
* Active at all FOSS4G international events since 2006.&lt;br /&gt;
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;Contacts&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!-- {{#umSetParam: 3.921261|43.585592|Lattes, France|Djay|Gérald Fenoy}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{#umUserMap: Djay|400px|250px|6|2|y}} --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone: +33670082539&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: gfenoy&lt;br /&gt;
: Mail: gerald DOT fenoy AT geolabs DOT fr&lt;br /&gt;
: IRC: djay&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Nicolas Bozon ===&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:nicolas_bozon.png|thumb|right|100px|Nick at Abikocho station]]&lt;br /&gt;
Principle, [http://www.cartogenic.com Cartogenic].&lt;br /&gt;
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Nicolas Bozon is an open source enthusiast and specializes in designing user interfaces and experiences for mapping and web applications. Nicolas runs [http://www.cartogenic.com Cartogenic], a geospatial consutling company located in Lyon, France. He is also a researcher in geomatics and environmental sciences, and currently pursues a post-doctoral fellowship in Osaka, Japan.&lt;br /&gt;
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;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]] [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
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* Co-founder and PSC member of [http://zoo-project.org ZOO-Project], the Open WPS platform&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo&lt;br /&gt;
* Member of the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee Marketing Committee] of OSGeo&lt;br /&gt;
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;Academics&lt;br /&gt;
* Post-doc fellowship (JP, 2011/2013)&lt;br /&gt;
* PhD Maths/GIS (FR, 2006/2009)&lt;br /&gt;
* Master GIS (FR, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;
* Undergraduate Env Sc (QC, 2002/2004)&lt;br /&gt;
* Undergraduate Geo (FR, 2000/2002)&lt;br /&gt;
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;Contact&lt;br /&gt;
:Email: nicolas dot bozon at gmail dot com&lt;br /&gt;
:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/nbozon Linkedin profile ]&lt;br /&gt;
:Skype: nicboz1&lt;br /&gt;
:IRC: nbozon&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#umSetParam: 4.856216|45.770527|Lyon, France|Nbozon|Nicolas Bozon}}&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/printingpress/landon-blakes-bio/ Landon Blake] (AKA - The Sunburned Surveyor) ===&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:landon_blake_portrait.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Landon Blake]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Owner, [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com Redefined Horizons]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Location: Stockton, California, United States of America&lt;br /&gt;
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Landon Blake is a land surveyor and GIS programmer with a focus on OpenJUMP and CAD customization. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Web Page: [http://www.redefinedhorizons.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* Blog: [http://www.redefinedhorizonsblog.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/mapit4u]&lt;br /&gt;
* LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;OSGeo Experience&lt;br /&gt;
* Volunteer Editor of the OSGeo Journal&lt;br /&gt;
* Board Representative for the OSGeo California Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
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;Contact:&lt;br /&gt;
: Email: sunburned dot surveyor at gmail dot com&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (Home): 209-464-2612&lt;br /&gt;
: Phone (Cell): 209-298-7521&lt;br /&gt;
: Skype: &lt;br /&gt;
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;Profile last updated: 07 14 2013&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Past OSGeo Advocates =&lt;br /&gt;
This section lists prior listed Advocates who have not recently updated their profiles.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Understanding OSGeo roles =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Below is an explanation of roles which Advocates might have been involved in as part of OSGeo:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====[[File:OSGeo_board.png]] [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png]] OSGeo Board Members====&lt;br /&gt;
: We only have 9 active OSGeo board members in the world, which have been peer selected based upon their outstanding leadership in the greater OSGeo community.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
====[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] OSGeo Charter Members====&lt;br /&gt;
: Charter membership is obtained through a strongly contested selection process. Members tend to be developers and leaders in one or more OSGeo projects, and/or OSGeo business leaders, and have a deep understanding in many of the OSGeo projects and principles of Open Source.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== [[File:SolKatz.png]] Sol Katz Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
: Every year, OSGeo presents the prestigious [http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz Sol Katz Award] to one individual who has demonstrated leadership and contributed significantly to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.&lt;br /&gt;
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====[[File:OSGeo_chair.png]] [[File:OSGeo_psc.png]] Voted position in an OSGeo community====&lt;br /&gt;
: These people hold a position of responsibility within one of the OSGeo sub-communities. This may be a chair of an OSGeo committee or board member of a Regional Chapter, or a member of a project's Project Steering Committee (PSC).&lt;br /&gt;
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====[[File:OSGeo_coder.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]] Developers and Committee Members====&lt;br /&gt;
: This is where the real work gets done developing and coordinating development of OSGeo Software.&lt;br /&gt;
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====[[File:OSGeo_user.png]] OSGeo Community Members====&lt;br /&gt;
: These people are actively involved in one or more OSGeo communities, acting as practitioners, users, promoters or supporters of OSGeo software. These people tend to have a practical understanding about how OSGeo software works.&lt;br /&gt;
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====[[File:OSGeo_translate.png]] OSGeo Translators====&lt;br /&gt;
: These people have translated documentation for OSGeo-Live, and/or OSGeo projects. They usually have an established understanding of OSGeo topics and can present them in local languages.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Expenses =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This OSGeo Advocate list has been designed to help event organisors find local authoritative speakers. Events wishing to import keynote speakers should anticipate covering expenses of these speakers. Note that OSGeo is a volunteer driven organisation without paid positions of authority and OSGeo doesn't budget to cover travel expenses. Note also that unlike proprietary companies, a company promoting Open Source software don't earn license fees when a delegate is convinced to start using the free software.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When budgeting for keynote speakers expect to cover the following expenses:&lt;br /&gt;
* Travel, typically including:&lt;br /&gt;
** airfare&lt;br /&gt;
** visa&lt;br /&gt;
** travel insurance (including overseas medical, trip disruption, lost luggage, etc)&lt;br /&gt;
** meals during travel&lt;br /&gt;
** transit costs to local and host airports&lt;br /&gt;
* Accommodation&lt;br /&gt;
** standard 3 or 4 star hotel within walking distance of the event&lt;br /&gt;
** high speed internet&lt;br /&gt;
* Per diem costs&lt;br /&gt;
** 3 meals a day&lt;br /&gt;
* Speakers fee&lt;br /&gt;
** typically $US 1000 per day. (Note that OSGeo volunteer speakers usually have a full time job and will be loosing wages for the duration of the event)&lt;br /&gt;
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For a rough guide of travel costs refer to the [http://aoprals.state.gov/web920/per_diem.asp US Department of State costs]&lt;br /&gt;
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Individual speakers may waive any of these costs if attracted to the event for other reasons, and final costs are to be negotiated with the selected speaker.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Other Resources =&lt;br /&gt;
Links to other organizations running a similar process. &lt;br /&gt;
* http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1585&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: This is my hackergotchi ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This is my hackergotchi ;-)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: /* Signed */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; document as a standard of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)]. The page is being collaboratively edited, targeting completion by Wednesday 15 May 2013, after which it will be delivered by the board of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo Foundation (OSGeo)] to the OGC and OGC voting members.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =&lt;br /&gt;
''Please don't edit this &amp;quot;Cover Letter&amp;quot; statement, which has been approved by the OSGeo Board.'' &lt;br /&gt;
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The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC. It highlights concerns about the &amp;quot;GeoServices REST API&amp;quot; from many people within the OSGeo community. As always, if there is anything the OSGeo board can do to help, then please let us know.&lt;br /&gt;
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Signed: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo president), &lt;br /&gt;
Peter Batty,&lt;br /&gt;
Jáchym Čepický,&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Gerlek,&lt;br /&gt;
Anne Ghisla,&lt;br /&gt;
Mark Lucas,&lt;br /&gt;
Daniel Morissette,&lt;br /&gt;
Cameron Shorter,&lt;br /&gt;
Frank Warmerdam&lt;br /&gt;
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= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =&lt;br /&gt;
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''Please don't edit this &amp;quot;Open Letter&amp;quot; statement, comments and discussion should go in the &amp;quot;Further Concerns&amp;quot; section below.'' &lt;br /&gt;
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May 2013&lt;br /&gt;
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We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.&lt;br /&gt;
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We strongly urge that the proposed &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot;, as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Signed ==&lt;br /&gt;
''Please add your name here if you agree with the above statement. Include name, work title (if appropriate), very brief title/involvement in OSGeo if appropriate. (Link to OSGeo profile if appropriate). You may sign as a group, such as the Project Steering Committee of XXX project if you wish, or as Your Name on behalf of YYY company.''&lt;br /&gt;
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# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor &amp;amp; coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Principal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]&lt;br /&gt;
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], core contributor and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR]. Former OGC TC member and involved in the implementation of several OGC WxS services specs in MapServer.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.&lt;br /&gt;
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at  [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]&lt;br /&gt;
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Sfkeller|Stefan Keller]], University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil (Switzerland), Member of Swiss OSM (SOSM) and QGIS association and of organizing committees of pgConf.DE and FOSSGIS 2013, and member of eCH (e-government standards of Switzerland)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pebau|Peter Baumann]], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University], OGC member, WCS.SWG chair, editor of 10+ specs (disclaimer: this is an expression of my personal opinion and not in any way endorsed by OGC)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pmbatty|Peter Batty]], CTO of Geospatial Division at [http://www.ubisense.net Ubisense], OSGeo board member, former CTO of [http://intergraph.com Intergraph] and [http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/gis.htm GE Smallworld], Technical Committee member of OGC in its formative years c 1995-97&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend K&amp;amp;ouml;bben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Endofcap| Sanghee Shin]], Founder and CEO of [http://www.gaia3d.com Gaia3D], OSGeo Charter Member, Representative of [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter], Chairman of Open Source GIS Alliance Korea&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, GIS Professor and Vice Rector for the Como Campus at  [http://www.polimi.it/en Politecnico di Milano], Italy&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town &amp;amp; Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant &amp;amp; Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [httpo://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:mikesaunt|Mike Saunt]], UK, Owner at [http://astuntechnology.com Astun Technology Ltd], OSGeo sponsor&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]], OSGeo Charter Member, Physical Scientist US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]], OSGeo Charter Member, Researcher at National Technical University of Athens&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Kimaidou|Michaël Douchin]], France, GIS consultant &amp;amp; software engineer at [http://3liz.com/ 3liz]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:PedroVenancio | Pedro Venâncio]], Portugal, GIS Analyst @ Municipality of Pinhel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]], Portugal, GIS Professor at Universidade do Minho&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Danielkastl| Daniel Kastl]], Japan, [http://georepublic.info Georepublic], Founder&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Diodata|John Callahan]], US, Research Scientist and GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, University of Delaware&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:kjkalyan|Kalyan Janakiraman]], Senior Systems Analyst, Business Development Services, NSW Land and Property Information, Sydney, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:goliadranger|Phillip Davis]], Director, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, Texas, USA&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:simonp|Simon Pigot]], contributor to and PSC member of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource] (speaking for myself, not an official view of my employer)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:jbryant|John Bryant]], Consultant, Mammoth Mapping, Dawson City, Canada and GIS/DB Admin, Jupiter Mines, Perth, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
# [[ChIossif|Christos Iossifides]], Remote Sensing Instructor, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Remote Sensing Instructor and Researcher, National Technical University of Athens&lt;br /&gt;
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= Summary =&lt;br /&gt;
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The document titled &amp;quot;GeoServices REST API&amp;quot; is currently, in May 2013, being considered to be included as one of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. The vote to accept the document as a standard is unusually contentious; the controversy is the cause of this page.&lt;br /&gt;
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The document was previously released for public comment and can be found [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89 on the request for public comment page] (though public comment has been closed for now).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document attempts to standardize a suite of web services such as a service which provides map images, a service which provides geospatial feature data, and a service which performs geospatial processing. The standard focuses on interactions via a defined hierarchy of URLs and using predominantly a particular set of JSON schemas for the exchange of geospatial data.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Criticism and Response ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The adoption of the document as an OGC Standard is contentious for a wide variety of reasons including:&lt;br /&gt;
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* the process through which the document was developed which is thought to lack sufficient flexibility to respond to input from various stakeholders, &lt;br /&gt;
* the focus of the document on 'REST' and 'API' which is seen as not matching the ideas others have for these concepts,&lt;br /&gt;
* the names of the standard and of the services which are seen as potentially confusing, &lt;br /&gt;
* the functionality of the new services which are considered to duplicate that of existing services already standardized by the OGC such as WMS, WFS, WCS, and WPS,&lt;br /&gt;
* the addition of a new set of services based on new URL patterns and new JSON exchange formats which is seen as duplicating the efforts of other working groups bringing similar ideas to the updates of existing OGC services,&lt;br /&gt;
* the re-introduction in the new services of previously resolved interoperability issues which is seen as failing to build on the existing knowledge and experience,&lt;br /&gt;
* the use of the particular JSON schemas which are seen as having little industry acceptance and are incompatible with other widely used schemas, and &lt;br /&gt;
* the lack of implementation diversity which is thought to give the vendor of the one complete implementation an unusual commercial advantage on top of the vendor's already dominant position in the domain. &lt;br /&gt;
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These issues have potential impacts on the use of 'Open Standards' by governments and companies, on the interoperability of software interacting with standards compliant OGC services, on the costs to developers and users of standards compliant software, on the understanding of 'Open Standards' by the public at large, and, possibly, on the reputation of the OGC as a champion of interoperability.&lt;br /&gt;
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In particular there are concerns by some that adoption of the standard will likely result in a combination of the following:&lt;br /&gt;
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.&lt;br /&gt;
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.&lt;br /&gt;
# Sponsors (such as governments) who require compliance with OGC standards will discover that applications don't communicate together, due to applications supporting different OGC standards that essentially do the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the &amp;quot;OGC standards&amp;quot; stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.&lt;br /&gt;
# After a while, in order to solve interoperability issues, a respected international organisation or program will likely take the initiative to mandate one standard as the preferred standard for all agencies to follow. To date, the OGC has provided this leadership.&lt;br /&gt;
# One standard taking prominance over the other will likely lead to the other being neglected or deprecated, resulting in many OGC compliant systems becoming legacy systems in the process. This should be considered an undesirable outcome for a standards organisation.&lt;br /&gt;
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In response to these issues, the authors of the Geoservices REST API document have stated that:&lt;br /&gt;
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* the process of the OGC has been followed completely,&lt;br /&gt;
* the specification actually is RESTful and does define an API,&lt;br /&gt;
* the name, due to the controversy, may be open for modification&lt;br /&gt;
* the OGC does not forbid duplication of service functionality, already has duplication between the W*S and the S*S (sensor) family of standards, should not block progress in the name of 'one true way', and harmonization between the services can be considered in the future,&lt;br /&gt;
* the JSON format exists and functions, and&lt;br /&gt;
* there are alternative implementations for some of these services.&lt;br /&gt;
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The authors also stress that the existence of a large user base shows the service is useful, and that the standardization of the services at the OGC may encourage new implementations.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Positions on the vote =&lt;br /&gt;
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The discussion raises a number of issues, many based upon complex technical concepts and implications. This makes it difficult for voting OGC members considering whether to support &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; as a standard. The following provides one analysis of the positions on the vote, aimed to simplify and summarize key points. However, it does not necessarily represent the opinions held by all signatories above.&lt;br /&gt;
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; The pros for accepting the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; document as an OGC standard:&lt;br /&gt;
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:* The OGC should be in the business of developing good standards, not in choosing which standards should be implemented.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The proposers of the document want to make a standard and have followed all the rules of the OGC. The work of any such group of members deserves serious, good faith consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The need for an integrated suite of services using simple data, which is addressed (partially) by the document, is real. The proposed document is pushing the OGC on this issue.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The proposed document could be useful to a number of people.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The proposed document is not significantly more broken than the existing standards of the OGC. As one author of standards [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html notes]: &lt;br /&gt;
:''&amp;quot;I know how totally impossible it is to write a good standard, so the weaknesses in the existing document seem more acceptable.&amp;quot;''&lt;br /&gt;
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; The cons:&lt;br /&gt;
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:* The OGC actually is, whether it should be or not, in the position of recommending interoperable standards for geospatial services. The proposed document is not good enough, not widely enough implemented, and not publicly supported enough, to be considered at the same level as existing standards.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Adopting a standard implies a desire to maintain the standard, but OGC's desire to support this approach has been questioned by some. In particular, the lack of collaboration and willingness to accept recommendations from the community on this version of the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; document bodes ill for the future.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The overlap in functionality between the proposed services and the existing services, notably with the ongoing work to modularize the existing services, is almost 100 percent. However, compatibility is low.&lt;br /&gt;
:* There is already a published document: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geoservices-rest-spec.pdf so there is no need for the document to be adopted as an OGC Standard merely for interoperability with the ESRI implementation.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The document, as a new, separate effort, repeats mistakes which were made and since solved by the other services.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The document focuses on the past (notably with backwards compatibility and use of only GET/POST) not on the future.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The document needs a comprehensive editorial review and substantial rewriting for clarity.&lt;br /&gt;
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; A conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;
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Both simple answers are bad.&lt;br /&gt;
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A simple acceptance of the standard would introduce a new set of 'OGC approved' open services. The OGC approval might enable governments to buy a XXXX-new-name-here-XXXX solution instead of a W*S or a S*S solution. The path forwards towards harmonizing the services is unclear. Fixing this document in addition to fixing the W*S services will be a pain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Simply rejecting the solution would be bad for the OGC. It would place the OGC in the position of picking winners and losers in the standards business. It would mean that the OGC is stuck on the project of fixing the W*S standards to meet some nebulous future functionality without having any path to get there. It would discourage innovation and progress.&lt;br /&gt;
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Is there any third way?&lt;br /&gt;
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Well, actually, there is a different way of thinking of the issue. Overall, there appears to be a shared desire for an integrated suite of geospatial services, originally focused on a simple data model, built on the exchange of well defined resources in simple formats including JSON, accessible and usable using the core HTTP verbs, and discoverable through following HTML links and patterns of URL paths. The hope is that such a suite can be designed based on the best expertise of the OGC, can be widely supported by the community, and can be implemented and tested by multiple groups. Neither the proposed document, nor the current services meet this vision. So the work, ultimately, is on improving all the services at the OGC, first to modularize them, then to enable simple implementations, and finally to link those implementations into a functional suite. Since this is the work that is already happening, perhaps the vote is an unfortunate distraction and the productive way forward is merely to redouble the efforts to create the next versions of the standards.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Issues with the document =&lt;br /&gt;
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Beyond the controversy described above, there are issues with the Geoservices REST API document itself. Even if the standard deserves support, these issues could be considered blockers to the adoption of the current, May 2013, document.&lt;br /&gt;
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The critique is incomplete because it quickly falls into a full editorial review of the text, something which takes a lot of time and effort and is beyond the scope and intent of this Open Letter.&lt;br /&gt;
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The critique can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique.&lt;br /&gt;
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Note that some of these critiques hold the document to OGC's current, standards writing guidelines. The OGC has been striving to develop better standards so new standards must meet higher requirements than past standards. The lack of clarity in the proposed document is not substantially worse than many published standards but ought to be resolved in new standards.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Further Concerns =&lt;br /&gt;
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''Please add concerns not addressed above as bullet points below.  Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves). Try to be concise, and try not to repeat concepts which have been covered above, (less words get read by more people). Points you have previously added, which are now covered above should be removed. Words that have been struck out will be removed by Tuesday 14 May.''&lt;br /&gt;
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== Political Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Adopting the standard will expose the OGC to a strong suspicion of acting as a rubber stamp organization under ESRI weight, and will be detrimental to its recognized position as a reference organization for geospatial standards.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;It is a dubious practice that a standardization organisation promotes competing standards, without explicitely obsoleting (or at least recommending) some of them. How is a newcomer to the industry supposed to select the appropriate standard if several ones share the same scope : WFS or GeoServices REST API Feature Service, WMS or GeoServices REST API Map Service, etc. ?&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Commercial Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Many SME's have invested in supporting existing OGC standards in their products. They will be forced to choose the standards they support (and can explain), resulting in decreased interoperability, confusion and frustration for clients.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Technical Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;The Geoservices REST API overlaps in large proportion with existing OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS, CSW, with no effort made to reconcile with those standards.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* The standardization of WKT for Spatial reference systems is unfortunately currently quite weak in OGC standards. Geoservices REST API is tied with ESRI's version of WKT, which is not properly specified in the Geoservices REST API documents, and is known to be incompatible with other OGC documents, which will lead to a larger confusion. See the following [http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/000166.html comment] for more details on this issue.&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;The Geoservices REST API is not particularly RESTful - it's a thinly disguised service call, not an address space for RESTful objects that can be operated on.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* At least as far as &amp;quot;imagery&amp;quot; is concerned, OGC standards arguably are substantially more mature, powerful, flexible, and modular then the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Part 6 (and some design principles suggest that scalability may be hampered as well):&lt;br /&gt;
** data model:&lt;br /&gt;
*** the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; appears constrained to 2-D imagery, plus optional time stamps. OGC has established a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_data unified coverage model] which fully supports n-D spatio-temporal data. It allows use and exchange of coverages between different services, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS], WPS, and SWE.&lt;br /&gt;
*** OGC coverages support both regular and irregular grids; the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; supports only regular grids, more specifically: only rectified grids with quadrilateral pixels.&lt;br /&gt;
*** the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot;  lacks support for temporal data; it only offers timestamps, measured in milliseconds; this is inconvenient for users and immediately excludes, e.g., geological dates. OGC has established uniform handling of horizontal, vertical, and temporal coordinate reference systems (CRSs), following a deep consensus process with GIS science and backwards compatible with EPSG. The ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; specific way of handling coordinates is not known to support this, thereby excluding appropriate timeseries handling in remote sensing, air traffic, MetOcean, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*** OGC coverages provide a concise, versatile model for supporting different binary formats; the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; supports only very few selected 2-D formats, excluding, e.g., JPEG2000, NetCDF, HDF, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*** the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; lacks a clear model of their data structures, it can be deduced only implicitly from the operation mechanics.&lt;br /&gt;
** service model:&lt;br /&gt;
*** The ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Part 6 lacks conciseness, thereby opening up ways for implementations that are not interoperable. For developers of alternative implementations this may mean they have to acquire ESRI licenses for finding out the intended behavior.&lt;br /&gt;
*** Functionality in the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; appears randomly chosen, with no clear concept visible; this burdens implementers while still leaving holes of functionality. For example, this functionality appears restricted to mapping applications and does not easily extend into other domains.&lt;br /&gt;
*** It has been said that the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; can be seen as a &amp;quot;wrapper around OGC W*S&amp;quot; services. This is not true for WCS (and WCPS), at least: the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Part 6 is too poor in functionality and too different in mechanics to accomplish this.&lt;br /&gt;
** In summary, the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. The components making up the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot;, if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Methodological Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
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# Ten months after submitting, no public response (nor private to the authors of the comments) has been made to the various comments sent on the OGC Requests mailing list in [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/date.html July 2012]] and [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-August/date.html August 2012]] during the 30 day public comments period.&lt;br /&gt;
# The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement of backward compatibility with ESRI implementation. Consequently, the standard is unlikely to improve, or its evolution will be only lead by ESRI.&lt;br /&gt;
# OGC standards normally require interoperability experiments and a richer process to ratify a standard such as this one. No explanation has been forthcoming as to why a simplified process is appropriate in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A response (from Adrian Custer):&lt;br /&gt;
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# The OGC is working to release those documents to the public as of 9 May 2013.&lt;br /&gt;
# Work on the next version of the document can take any perspective acceptable to those working on the document. (The OGC has no method in place in case two groups want to evolve the document in two different directions.)&lt;br /&gt;
# That is not true, the OGC does not require interoperability experiments or some &amp;quot;richer process&amp;quot; for the adoption of a standard; that may be desirable but is not required.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Further Reading =&lt;br /&gt;
''Please add links to referenced documents, related news stories or blog posts here.''&lt;br /&gt;
* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89&lt;br /&gt;
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html&lt;br /&gt;
* Adrian Custer's summary of technical issues (and original source of some content in this letter): http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Is OGC Loosing its way?&amp;quot;, letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; document as a standard of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)]. The page is being collaboratively edited, targeting completion by Wednesday 15 May 2013, after which it will be delivered by the board of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo Foundation (OSGeo)] to the OGC and OGC voting members.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =&lt;br /&gt;
''Please don't edit this &amp;quot;Cover Letter&amp;quot; statement, which has been approved by the OSGeo Board.'' &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC. It highlights concerns about the &amp;quot;GeoServices REST API&amp;quot; from many people within the OSGeo community. As always, if there is anything the OSGeo board can do to help, then please let us know.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Signed: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo president), &lt;br /&gt;
Peter Batty,&lt;br /&gt;
Jáchym Čepický,&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Gerlek,&lt;br /&gt;
Anne Ghisla,&lt;br /&gt;
Mark Lucas,&lt;br /&gt;
Daniel Morissette,&lt;br /&gt;
Cameron Shorter,&lt;br /&gt;
Frank Warmerdam&lt;br /&gt;
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= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''Please don't edit this &amp;quot;Open Letter&amp;quot; statement, comments and discussion should go in the &amp;quot;Further Concerns&amp;quot; section below.'' &lt;br /&gt;
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May 2013&lt;br /&gt;
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We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We strongly urge that the proposed &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot;, as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Signed ==&lt;br /&gt;
''Please add your name here if you agree with the above statement. Include name, work title (if appropriate), very brief title/involvement in OSGeo if appropriate. (Link to OSGeo profile if appropriate). You may sign as a group, such as the Project Steering Committee of XXX project if you wish, or as Your Name on behalf of YYY company.''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor &amp;amp; coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Principal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]&lt;br /&gt;
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], core contributor and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR]. Former OGC TC member and involved in the implementation of several OGC WxS services specs in MapServer.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.&lt;br /&gt;
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at  [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]&lt;br /&gt;
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Sfkeller|Stefan Keller]], University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil (Switzerland), Member of Swiss OSM (SOSM) and QGIS association and of organizing committees of pgConf.DE and FOSSGIS 2013, and member of eCH (e-government standards of Switzerland)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pebau|Peter Baumann]], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University], OGC member, WCS.SWG chair, editor of 10+ specs (disclaimer: this is an expression of my personal opinion and not in any way endorsed by OGC)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pmbatty|Peter Batty]], CTO of Geospatial Division at [http://www.ubisense.net Ubisense], OSGeo board member, former CTO of [http://intergraph.com Intergraph] and [http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/gis.htm GE Smallworld], Technical Committee member of OGC in its formative years c 1995-97&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend K&amp;amp;ouml;bben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Endofcap| Sanghee Shin]], Founder and CEO of [http://www.gaia3d.com Gaia3D], OSGeo Charter Member, Representative of [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter], Chairman of Open Source GIS Alliance Korea&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User: Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, GIS Professor and Vice Rector for the Como Campus at  [http://www.polimi.it/en Politecnico di Milano], Italy&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town &amp;amp; Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant &amp;amp; Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [httpo://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:mikesaunt|Mike Saunt]], UK, Owner at [http://astuntechnology.com Astun Technology Ltd], OSGeo sponsor&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]], OSGeo Charter Member, Physical Scientist US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]], OSGeo Charter Member, Researcher at National Technical University of Athens&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Kimaidou|Michaël Douchin]], France, GIS consultant &amp;amp; software engineer at [http://3liz.com/ 3liz]&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:PedroVenancio | Pedro Venâncio]], Portugal, GIS Analyst @ Municipality of Pinhel&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]], Portugal, GIS Professor at Universidade do Minho&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:Danielkastl| Daniel Kastl]], Japan, [http://georepublic.info Georepublic], Founder&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Diodata|John Callahan]], US, Research Scientist and GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, University of Delaware&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:kjkalyan|Kalyan Janakiraman]], Senior Systems Analyst, Business Development Services, NSW Land and Property Information, Sydney, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:goliadranger|Phillip Davis]], Director, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, Texas, USA&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:simonp|Simon Pigot]], contributor to and PSC member of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource] (speaking for myself, not an official view of my employer)&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:jbryant|John Bryant]], Consultant, Mammoth Mapping, Dawson City, Canada and GIS/DB Admin, Jupiter Mines, Perth, Australia&lt;br /&gt;
# [[User:ChIossif|Christos Iossifides]], Remote Sensing Instructor, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Remote Sensing Instructor and Researcher, National Technical University of Athens&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Summary =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The document titled &amp;quot;GeoServices REST API&amp;quot; is currently, in May 2013, being considered to be included as one of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. The vote to accept the document as a standard is unusually contentious; the controversy is the cause of this page.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The document was previously released for public comment and can be found [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89 on the request for public comment page] (though public comment has been closed for now).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The document attempts to standardize a suite of web services such as a service which provides map images, a service which provides geospatial feature data, and a service which performs geospatial processing. The standard focuses on interactions via a defined hierarchy of URLs and using predominantly a particular set of JSON schemas for the exchange of geospatial data.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Criticism and Response ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The adoption of the document as an OGC Standard is contentious for a wide variety of reasons including:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* the process through which the document was developed which is thought to lack sufficient flexibility to respond to input from various stakeholders, &lt;br /&gt;
* the focus of the document on 'REST' and 'API' which is seen as not matching the ideas others have for these concepts,&lt;br /&gt;
* the names of the standard and of the services which are seen as potentially confusing, &lt;br /&gt;
* the functionality of the new services which are considered to duplicate that of existing services already standardized by the OGC such as WMS, WFS, WCS, and WPS,&lt;br /&gt;
* the addition of a new set of services based on new URL patterns and new JSON exchange formats which is seen as duplicating the efforts of other working groups bringing similar ideas to the updates of existing OGC services,&lt;br /&gt;
* the re-introduction in the new services of previously resolved interoperability issues which is seen as failing to build on the existing knowledge and experience,&lt;br /&gt;
* the use of the particular JSON schemas which are seen as having little industry acceptance and are incompatible with other widely used schemas, and &lt;br /&gt;
* the lack of implementation diversity which is thought to give the vendor of the one complete implementation an unusual commercial advantage on top of the vendor's already dominant position in the domain. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These issues have potential impacts on the use of 'Open Standards' by governments and companies, on the interoperability of software interacting with standards compliant OGC services, on the costs to developers and users of standards compliant software, on the understanding of 'Open Standards' by the public at large, and, possibly, on the reputation of the OGC as a champion of interoperability.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In particular there are concerns by some that adoption of the standard will likely result in a combination of the following:&lt;br /&gt;
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.&lt;br /&gt;
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.&lt;br /&gt;
# Sponsors (such as governments) who require compliance with OGC standards will discover that applications don't communicate together, due to applications supporting different OGC standards that essentially do the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the &amp;quot;OGC standards&amp;quot; stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.&lt;br /&gt;
# After a while, in order to solve interoperability issues, a respected international organisation or program will likely take the initiative to mandate one standard as the preferred standard for all agencies to follow. To date, the OGC has provided this leadership.&lt;br /&gt;
# One standard taking prominance over the other will likely lead to the other being neglected or deprecated, resulting in many OGC compliant systems becoming legacy systems in the process. This should be considered an undesirable outcome for a standards organisation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In response to these issues, the authors of the Geoservices REST API document have stated that:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* the process of the OGC has been followed completely,&lt;br /&gt;
* the specification actually is RESTful and does define an API,&lt;br /&gt;
* the name, due to the controversy, may be open for modification&lt;br /&gt;
* the OGC does not forbid duplication of service functionality, already has duplication between the W*S and the S*S (sensor) family of standards, should not block progress in the name of 'one true way', and harmonization between the services can be considered in the future,&lt;br /&gt;
* the JSON format exists and functions, and&lt;br /&gt;
* there are alternative implementations for some of these services.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The authors also stress that the existence of a large user base shows the service is useful, and that the standardization of the services at the OGC may encourage new implementations.&lt;br /&gt;
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= Positions on the vote =&lt;br /&gt;
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''&lt;br /&gt;
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The discussion raises a number of issues, many based upon complex technical concepts and implications. This makes it difficult for voting OGC members considering whether to support &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; as a standard. The following provides one analysis of the positions on the vote, aimed to simplify and summarize key points. However, it does not necessarily represent the opinions held by all signatories above.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; The pros for accepting the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; document as an OGC standard:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* The OGC should be in the business of developing good standards, not in choosing which standards should be implemented.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The proposers of the document want to make a standard and have followed all the rules of the OGC. The work of any such group of members deserves serious, good faith consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The need for an integrated suite of services using simple data, which is addressed (partially) by the document, is real. The proposed document is pushing the OGC on this issue.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The proposed document could be useful to a number of people.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The proposed document is not significantly more broken than the existing standards of the OGC. As one author of standards [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html notes]: &lt;br /&gt;
:''&amp;quot;I know how totally impossible it is to write a good standard, so the weaknesses in the existing document seem more acceptable.&amp;quot;''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; The cons:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:* The OGC actually is, whether it should be or not, in the position of recommending interoperable standards for geospatial services. The proposed document is not good enough, not widely enough implemented, and not publicly supported enough, to be considered at the same level as existing standards.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Adopting a standard implies a desire to maintain the standard, but OGC's desire to support this approach has been questioned by some. In particular, the lack of collaboration and willingness to accept recommendations from the community on this version of the &amp;quot;Geoservices REST API&amp;quot; document bodes ill for the future.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The overlap in functionality between the proposed services and the existing services, notably with the ongoing work to modularize the existing services, is almost 100 percent. However, compatibility is low.&lt;br /&gt;
:* There is already a published document: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geoservices-rest-spec.pdf so there is no need for the document to be adopted as an OGC Standard merely for interoperability with the ESRI implementation.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The document, as a new, separate effort, repeats mistakes which were made and since solved by the other services.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The document focuses on the past (notably with backwards compatibility and use of only GET/POST) not on the future.&lt;br /&gt;
:* The document needs a comprehensive editorial review and substantial rewriting for clarity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
; A conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both simple answers are bad.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A simple acceptance of the standard would introduce a new set of 'OGC approved' open services. The OGC approval might enable governments to buy a XXXX-new-name-here-XXXX solution instead of a W*S or a S*S solution. The path forwards towards harmonizing the services is unclear. Fixing this document in addition to fixing the W*S services will be a pain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Simply rejecting the solution would be bad for the OGC. It would place the OGC in the position of picking winners and losers in the standards business. It would mean that the OGC is stuck on the project of fixing the W*S standards to meet some nebulous future functionality without having any path to get there. It would discourage innovation and progress.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Is there any third way?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Well, actually, there is a different way of thinking of the issue. Overall, there appears to be a shared desire for an integrated suite of geospatial services, originally focused on a simple data model, built on the exchange of well defined resources in simple formats including JSON, accessible and usable using the core HTTP verbs, and discoverable through following HTML links and patterns of URL paths. The hope is that such a suite can be designed based on the best expertise of the OGC, can be widely supported by the community, and can be implemented and tested by multiple groups. Neither the proposed document, nor the current services meet this vision. So the work, ultimately, is on improving all the services at the OGC, first to modularize them, then to enable simple implementations, and finally to link those implementations into a functional suite. Since this is the work that is already happening, perhaps the vote is an unfortunate distraction and the productive way forward is merely to redouble the efforts to create the next versions of the standards.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Issues with the document =&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beyond the controversy described above, there are issues with the Geoservices REST API document itself. Even if the standard deserves support, these issues could be considered blockers to the adoption of the current, May 2013, document.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The critique is incomplete because it quickly falls into a full editorial review of the text, something which takes a lot of time and effort and is beyond the scope and intent of this Open Letter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The critique can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Note that some of these critiques hold the document to OGC's current, standards writing guidelines. The OGC has been striving to develop better standards so new standards must meet higher requirements than past standards. The lack of clarity in the proposed document is not substantially worse than many published standards but ought to be resolved in new standards.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Further Concerns =&lt;br /&gt;
--- DRAFT ____&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''Please add concerns not addressed above as bullet points below.  Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves). Try to be concise, and try not to repeat concepts which have been covered above, (less words get read by more people). Points you have previously added, which are now covered above should be removed. Words that have been struck out will be removed by Tuesday 14 May.''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Political Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Adopting the standard will expose the OGC to a strong suspicion of acting as a rubber stamp organization under ESRI weight, and will be detrimental to its recognized position as a reference organization for geospatial standards.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;It is a dubious practice that a standardization organisation promotes competing standards, without explicitely obsoleting (or at least recommending) some of them. How is a newcomer to the industry supposed to select the appropriate standard if several ones share the same scope : WFS or GeoServices REST API Feature Service, WMS or GeoServices REST API Map Service, etc. ?&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Commercial Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Many SME's have invested in supporting existing OGC standards in their products. They will be forced to choose the standards they support (and can explain), resulting in decreased interoperability, confusion and frustration for clients.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Technical Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;The Geoservices REST API overlaps in large proportion with existing OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS, CSW, with no effort made to reconcile with those standards.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* The standardization of WKT for Spatial reference systems is unfortunately currently quite weak in OGC standards. Geoservices REST API is tied with ESRI's version of WKT, which is not properly specified in the Geoservices REST API documents, and is known to be incompatible with other OGC documents, which will lead to a larger confusion. See the following [http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/000166.html comment] for more details on this issue.&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;The Geoservices REST API is not particularly RESTful - it's a thinly disguised service call, not an address space for RESTful objects that can be operated on.&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* At least as far as &amp;quot;imagery&amp;quot; is concerned, OGC standards arguably are substantially more mature, powerful, flexible, and modular then the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Part 6 (and some design principles suggest that scalability may be hampered as well):&lt;br /&gt;
** data model:&lt;br /&gt;
*** the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; appears constrained to 2-D imagery, plus optional time stamps. OGC has established a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_data unified coverage model] which fully supports n-D spatio-temporal data. It allows use and exchange of coverages between different services, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS], WPS, and SWE.&lt;br /&gt;
*** OGC coverages support both regular and irregular grids; the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; supports only regular grids, more specifically: only rectified grids with quadrilateral pixels.&lt;br /&gt;
*** the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot;  lacks support for temporal data; it only offers timestamps, measured in milliseconds; this is inconvenient for users and immediately excludes, e.g., geological dates. OGC has established uniform handling of horizontal, vertical, and temporal coordinate reference systems (CRSs), following a deep consensus process with GIS science and backwards compatible with EPSG. The ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; specific way of handling coordinates is not known to support this, thereby excluding appropriate timeseries handling in remote sensing, air traffic, MetOcean, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*** OGC coverages provide a concise, versatile model for supporting different binary formats; the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; supports only very few selected 2-D formats, excluding, e.g., JPEG2000, NetCDF, HDF, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*** the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; lacks a clear model of their data structures, it can be deduced only implicitly from the operation mechanics.&lt;br /&gt;
** service model:&lt;br /&gt;
*** The ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Part 6 lacks conciseness, thereby opening up ways for implementations that are not interoperable. For developers of alternative implementations this may mean they have to acquire ESRI licenses for finding out the intended behavior.&lt;br /&gt;
*** Functionality in the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; appears randomly chosen, with no clear concept visible; this burdens implementers while still leaving holes of functionality. For example, this functionality appears restricted to mapping applications and does not easily extend into other domains.&lt;br /&gt;
*** It has been said that the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; can be seen as a &amp;quot;wrapper around OGC W*S&amp;quot; services. This is not true for WCS (and WCPS), at least: the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Part 6 is too poor in functionality and too different in mechanics to accomplish this.&lt;br /&gt;
** In summary, the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. The components making up the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot; provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI &amp;quot;Geoservice REST API&amp;quot;, if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Methodological Concerns ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Ten months after submitting, no public response (nor private to the authors of the comments) has been made to the various comments sent on the OGC Requests mailing list in [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/date.html July 2012]] and [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-August/date.html August 2012]] during the 30 day public comments period.&lt;br /&gt;
# The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement of backward compatibility with ESRI implementation. Consequently, the standard is unlikely to improve, or its evolution will be only lead by ESRI.&lt;br /&gt;
# OGC standards normally require interoperability experiments and a richer process to ratify a standard such as this one. No explanation has been forthcoming as to why a simplified process is appropriate in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A response (from Adrian Custer):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# The OGC is working to release those documents to the public as of 9 May 2013.&lt;br /&gt;
# Work on the next version of the document can take any perspective acceptable to those working on the document. (The OGC has no method in place in case two groups want to evolve the document in two different directions.)&lt;br /&gt;
# That is not true, the OGC does not require interoperability experiments or some &amp;quot;richer process&amp;quot; for the adoption of a standard; that may be desirable but is not required.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Further Reading =&lt;br /&gt;
''Please add links to referenced documents, related news stories or blog posts here.''&lt;br /&gt;
* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89&lt;br /&gt;
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html&lt;br /&gt;
* Adrian Custer's summary of technical issues (and original source of some content in this letter): http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Is OGC Loosing its way?&amp;quot;, letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html&lt;br /&gt;
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= '''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter''' =&lt;br /&gt;
This is a starting effort to introduce a Greek Local Chapter of OSGeo!&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please register with OSGeo and then add your name in this page if interested.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Communication - Επικοινωνία'''=&lt;br /&gt;
Please register at the wiki so that you can edit this page.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please add your name here.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please register yourself with the discussions list, by sending e-mail to discuss at lists.osgeo.org&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You can find instructions at discussion-list at [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NEW!! Greek Mailing List ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please register at the Greek mailing list at:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/greek&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so that we can have more precise communication - in Greek, too!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Activities'''=&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities during 2007, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2007 Annual Report 2007 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities during 2008, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2008 Annual Report 2008 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities during 2009, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2009 Annual Report 2009 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Current Members'''=&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos], Serres, Greece (initiated)&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON, Canada (observing)&lt;br /&gt;
* Demetris Stathakis, Joint Research Centre&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.geographer.gr/ Leonidas Liakos], Geographer, Paramythia-Thesprotia, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Giorgos Xalaris, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Poulicos Prastacos, Heraklion, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Dept. of Geography, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Athina_Trakas Athina Trakas], Bonn, Germany&lt;br /&gt;
* Demetrios Panayotakopoulos, Attiko Metro S.A., Athens, Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Local Chapters]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Marinos Kontomatis, Geologist, Athens, Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
* Dimitris Sardelianos, Patra, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* John Spyrakos, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Vasilis Vlastaras, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Vassilis Trigkas, Environmental Cartographer, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Evangelia Kappa, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Spiros Athanasiou, [http://www.imis.athena-innovation.gr/ IMIS/RC &amp;quot;Athena&amp;quot;], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Panagiotis Tziachris, Thessaloniki, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Arnaud_Deleurme Arnaud Deleurme ], WebMapping &amp;amp; Cartographer, Larissa/Thessaloniki, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ant.mihalakis Antonis Michalakis], forester, Megara, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nikos_Kolios Nikos Kolios], Amsterdam, The Netherlands&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.linuxhelp.gr Giannis Tsibiris], Serres, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ChIossif Christos Iossifides], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos Angelos Tzotsos], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Angelos Mimis, Panteion University, Dept. of Economic &amp;amp; Regional Development, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Michail_Tziotis Michail Tziotis], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://gr.linkedin.com/in/michelakis Dimitrios G. Michelakis], Degree in Forestry and Natural Environment, MSc in Geographical Information Science, Heraklion - Crete, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Nikos Alexandris, Forester&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Greek&amp;diff=52034</id>
		<title>Greek</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Greek&amp;diff=52034"/>
		<updated>2010-12-13T19:20:59Z</updated>

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= '''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter''' =&lt;br /&gt;
This is a starting effort to introduce a Greek Local Chapter of OSGeo!&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please register with OSGeo and then add your name in this page if interested.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Communication - Επικοινωνία'''=&lt;br /&gt;
Please register at the wiki so that you can edit this page.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please add your name here.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please register yourself with the discussions list, by sending e-mail to discuss at lists.osgeo.org&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You can find instructions at discussion-list at [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NEW!! Greek Mailing List ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please register at the Greek mailing list at:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/greek&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
so that we can have more precise communication - in Greek, too!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Activities'''=&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities during 2007, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2007 Annual Report 2007 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities during 2008, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2008 Annual Report 2008 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities during 2009, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2009 Annual Report 2009 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Current Members'''=&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos], Serres, Greece (initiated)&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON, Canada (observing)&lt;br /&gt;
* Demetris Stathakis, Joint Research Centre&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.geographer.gr/ Leonidas Liakos], Geographer, Paramythia-Thesprotia, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Giorgos Xalaris, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Poulicos Prastacos, Heraklion, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Dept. of Geography, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Athina_Trakas Athina Trakas], Bonn, Germany&lt;br /&gt;
* Demetrios Panayotakopoulos, Attiko Metro S.A., Athens, Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Local Chapters]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Marinos Kontomatis, Geologist, Athens, Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
* Dimitris Sardelianos, Patra, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* John Spyrakos, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Vasilis Vlastaras, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Vassilis Trigkas, Environmental Cartographer, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Evangelia Kappa, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Spiros Athanasiou, [http://www.imis.athena-innovation.gr/ IMIS/RC &amp;quot;Athena&amp;quot;], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Panagiotis Tziachris, Thessaloniki, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Arnaud_Deleurme Arnaud Deleurme ], WebMapping &amp;amp; Cartographer, Larissa/Thessaloniki, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Ant.mihalakis Antonis Michalakis], forester, Megara, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nikos_Kolios Nikos Kolios], Amsterdam, The Netherlands&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.linuxhelp.gr Giannis Tsibiris], Serres, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/chiossif Christos Iossifides], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos Angelos Tzotsos], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Angelos Mimis, Panteion University, Dept. of Economic &amp;amp; Regional Development, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Michail_Tziotis Michail Tziotis], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://gr.linkedin.com/in/michelakis Dimitrios G. Michelakis], Degree in Forestry and Natural Environment, MSc in Geographical Information Science, Heraklion - Crete, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Nikos Alexandris, Forester&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Greek&amp;diff=39199</id>
		<title>Greek</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Greek&amp;diff=39199"/>
		<updated>2009-06-21T10:22:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wiki-Chiossif: &lt;/p&gt;
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= '''OSGeo Greek Local Chapter''' =&lt;br /&gt;
This is a starting effort to introduce a Greek Local Chapter of OSGeo!&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please register with OSGeo and then add your name in this page if interested.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Communication - Επικοινωνία'''=&lt;br /&gt;
Please register at the wiki so that you can edit this page.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please add your name here.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Please register yourself with the discussions list, by sending e-mail to discuss at lists.osgeo.org&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You can find instructions at discussion-list at [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Activities'''=&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2007 Annual Report 2007 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
* To get an idea of our activities, please check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Greek_Language_Chapter_Report_2008 Annual Report 2008 Greek Chapter]&lt;br /&gt;
* Interoperability in Geographic Information Day, a joint mini conference between HellasGI and OGC with OSGeo participation. More information at: http://www.hellasgi.gr&lt;br /&gt;
* The Greek Local Chapter of OSGeo co-organizes a Workshop during the &amp;quot;Greek National Open Source Developers Conference&amp;quot;. The workshop titled &amp;quot;Developing GIS applications with open source tools&amp;quot; will take place in Athens on Saturday, June 20th, 2009. Invited Speaker would be Arnulf Christl, OSGeo President. Please note that this is an event with limited participation so registration is needed, since we will follow a First-Come-First-Served logic.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
** Event Detailed Information&lt;br /&gt;
** Title: Developing GIS applications with open source tools&lt;br /&gt;
** URL: http://conf.ellak.gr/2009/?page_id=53 (in Greek)&lt;br /&gt;
** Where: NTUA Events Amphitheater, NTUA Campus, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
** Start time: 20/06/2009, 11:00&lt;br /&gt;
** End time  : 20/06/2009. 15:00&lt;br /&gt;
** Participation: Registration required&lt;br /&gt;
** Speaker: Arnulf Christl&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
** Co-orginized: OSGeo Greek Local Chapter &amp;amp; Greek GIS Society (HellasGI)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
** Είναι επίσης μια καλή ευκαιρία ώστε να βρεθούμε όλοι μαζί μετά το τέλος της συνάντησης για πρώτη φορά. Αν προκειται να είστε εκεί σας παρακαλώ ενημερώστε με ώστε να συναντηθούμε. - Δημήτρης Κοτζίνος&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
='''Current Members'''=&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Kotzino Dimitris Kotzinos], Serres, Greece (initiated)&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.kralidis.ca/ Tom Kralidis], Charter Member, Toronto, ON, Canada (observing)&lt;br /&gt;
* Demetris Stathakis, Joint Research Centre&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.geographer.freehost.gr/ Leonidas Liakos], Geographer, Paramythia-Thesprotia, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Giorgos Xalaris, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Poulicos Prastacos, Heraklion, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Dept. of Geography, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Athina_Trakas Athina Trakas], Bonn, Germany&lt;br /&gt;
* Demetrios Panayotakopoulos, Attiko Metro S.A., Athens, Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Local Chapters]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Marinos Kontomatis, Geologist, Athens, Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
* Dimitris Sardelianos, Patra, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* John Spyrakos, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Vasilis Vlastaras, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Vassilis Trigkas, Environmental Cartographer, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Evangelia Kappa, Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Spiros Athanasiou, [http://www.imis.athena-innovation.gr/ IMIS/RC &amp;quot;Athena&amp;quot;], Athens, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Panagiotis Tziachris, Thessaloniki, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Arnaud_Deleurme Deleurme Arnaud], Infodim S.A, Thessaloniki, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Antonis Michalakis, forester, Megara, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nikos_Kolios Nikos Kolios], Amsterdam, The Netherlands&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.linuxhelp.gr Giannis Tsibiris], Serres, Greece&lt;br /&gt;
* Christos Iossifides, Athens, Greece&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wiki-Chiossif</name></author>
	</entry>
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