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Bolsena Code Sprint 2014

2014-05-26T21:22:02Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Registered Attendees */

== OSGeo Hacking event in a monastery near Bolsena (1-7 June 2014) ==
; [[Event Owner]]: [[User:ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]
; When: [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1381 1-7 June 2014]
; Where: [http://tinyurl.com/2t6zby Bolsena - Italy]
; Agenda:
* [[Agenda 2014]]
* https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/wiki/Bolsena2014
; Previous years: [[OSGeo Hacking event|2008]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2009|2009]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2010|2010]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2011|2011]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2012|2012]] and [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2013|2013]]

After six successful years, we'll continue the OSGeo "hacking" event in Bolsena in an [http://www.conventobolsena.org/ Italian monastery] ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.646585&mlon=11.99335&zoom=14&layers=M see map location], and videos: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrZrK64UIw 2008-video], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxox3AsjH6Q 2009-video] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vjx06Rlols 2010-video]. The monastery is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to about 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . It is one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated, simple and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, further improved this year. It should be perfect for git, IRC and mail. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery.
For what the food concerns, we will have a cook who will take care of us :-) . There's a large dining space, but we will eat outside overlooking the lake if weather permits (very likely in June).

The all inclusive cost will be 550 Euro (Excl VAT) per person for the full week. You can stay all seven days and food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) is included in the price. As in previous years, we will go out for a city visit and a dinner on one of the evenings (also included).

The event will take place during the whole week (7 days), although the emphasis will probably be Monday to Friday for most participants.
Please contact me if you have questions about this event ([[User:ticheler |Jeroen Ticheler]])

== Network links ==

IRC channel: [irc://irc.freenode.net/bolsena #bolsena at freenode]

=== Registered Attendees ===

Those participating, you will need to make the payment of 550 Euro (Excl VAT) in advance to GeoCat bv to guarantee your place. Please contact me by email so I can send you the invoice and bank details. I've no problems if you later need to change as long as you make sure there's someone taking your place :-)

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="30"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="250"|Projects
!width="150"|single/double room?
!width="150"|Confirmed/tentative?
!width="150"|Advance paid?
!width="250"|Leaving at:
!width="250"|Breakfast help:
|-
| 1 ||[[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]] || [[GeoNetwork]] & [[Marketing]] || double || confirmed || x || || monday
|-
| 2 ||[[User:alfonx|Stefan Tzeggai]] || || single || confirmed || x || || sunday
|-
| 3 ||[[User:alfonx|Uli Rothstein]] || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 4 || Andreas Schmitz || [[Mapbender]], [[deegree]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || X || || monday
|-
| 6 ||[[User:josegar|Jose García]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || x || || monday
|-
| 7 ||[[User:arbakker|Anton Bakker]] || Geocat Bridge || single || confirmed || x || ||tuesday
|-
| 8 ||[[User:genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] || [[GeoNetwork]], Inspire, [[Cat-Interop]] || single || confirmed || x || ||tuesday
|-
| 9 ||[[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || x || || wednesday
|-
| 10 ||[[User:crischan|Christian Wygoda]] || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 11 ||Jan Skornsek || GeoCat Bridge & Live || single || confirmed || x || || wednesday
|-
| 12 ||[[User: simonp|Simon Pigot]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || || || wednesday
|-
| 13 || Francois Prunayre || [[GeoNetwork]] & Talend Spatial || single || confirmed || || || wednesday
|-
| 14 || Florent Gravin || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || || || wednesday
|-
| 15 || Jesse Eichar || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || || || wednesday
|-
| 16 || Pierre Mauduit || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || || || wednesday
|-
| 17 || Meine Toonen || [[Flamingo4]] || single || confirmed || || || thursday
|-
| 18 || Matthijs Laan || [[Flamingo4]] & Cycling || single || confirmed || || || thursday
|-
| 19 ||Jean Pommier || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || || || friday
|-
| 20 || Volker Mische || GeoCouch, Couchbase, CouchDB || single || confirmed || || early Friday || thursday
|-
| 21 || Thorsten Hildebrand || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 22 || Wout Ritzema || Geonetwork & Marketing & Photograpy || single || confirmed || || ||
|-
| 23 ||Chris Barnett || Open Geoportal || single || confirmed || || ||
|-
| n ||Copy this line and add your details || your projects || single/double || confirmed/tentative || || ||
|-
|}

: [1] please sign up to help with setting up and cleaning the breakfast during one day in the week.

=== Sponsoring ===
We are always welcoming sponsors!

=== How to arrive to the Monastery ===

The closest airports are the Roma airports (Ciampino and Fiumincino).

From Rome to the monastery there is 135 km aproximately.

There is no railway to Bolsena.

From Fiumicino to Rome you can take the train [http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-fco-train METROPOLITANO FR1].

From Rome you can take a bus (cotral http://www.cotralspa.it/ENG/capolinea.asp) to Viterbo and other bus from viterbo to Bolsena (9am & 7.30pm).

Alternatively you can take a train from Rome to Orvieto and take a taxi from Orvieto to Bolsena. Orvieto Taxi info:
1) Paolo of 'Gulliver Taxi' gullirent@alice.it tel 0763 302969 or mobile 330 477399.
2) Luigi gigitaxi@libero.it tel 338 9790846. Luigi speaks limited English
3) OrvietoTaxi : http://www.orvietotaxi.it simone@orvietotaxi.it is a good option (by Just)

You could also walk from Orvieto to Bolsena via routes such as the one shown [http://www.inorvieto.it/en/visit/nature_routes/from_orvieto_to_bolsena.html#orvieto here] - about 14km if you take the shortest route. :-)

Monday to Friday there is a bus each hour but Sunday there are very few buses.

From Bolsena main street to the Monastery is aproximately 1 km.

It could be interesting to rent a private bus or several cars to move from Rome to the Monastery and from the Monastery to Rome.

If you are interested in share vehicle please add your name to the following table and the columns you need for new ideas.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Name
!width="150"|I prefer to rent a bus
!width="150"|I prefer to share rented car
!width="150"|I prefer to get a ride if you have a car
!width="150"|I'll go with my car and I have free seats
!width="150"|I'll go by train
!width="150"|Comments
|-
| [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || || x || x || || || | I prefer to drive, but I don't own a car in Italy
|-
| [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]] || || || x || || x || | A pickup from the Orvieto train station would be nice
|-
|''copy and paste this to add yourself''|| || || || || || |
|}

=== How to get back home ===

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Name
!width="150"|I prefer to rent a bus
!width="150"|I prefer to share rented car
!width="150"|I prefer to get a ride if you have a car
!width="150"|I'll go with my car and I have free seats
!width="150"|I'll go by train
!width="150"|Comments
|-
| [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || || x || x || || || | I prefer to drive, but I don't own a car in Italy
|-
|''copy and paste this to add yourself''|| || || || || || |
|}

=== Resources ===

==== Presentations ====

=== Blog posts ===

=== Photo's ===

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Bolsena]]

Bolsena Code Sprint 2014

2014-01-23T21:30:26Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Registered Attendees */

== OSGeo Hacking event in a monastery near Bolsena (1-7 June 2014) ==
; [[Event Owner]]: [[User:ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]
; When: [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1381 1-7 June 2014]
; Where: [http://tinyurl.com/2t6zby Bolsena - Italy]
; Agenda: [[Agenda 2014]]
; Previous years: [[OSGeo Hacking event|2008]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2009|2009]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2010|2010]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2011|2011]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2012|2012]] and [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2013|2013]]

After six successful years, we'll continue the OSGeo "hacking" event in Bolsena in an [http://www.conventobolsena.org/ Italian monastery] ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.646585&mlon=11.99335&zoom=14&layers=M see map location], and videos: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrZrK64UIw 2008-video], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxox3AsjH6Q 2009-video] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vjx06Rlols 2010-video]. The monastery is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to about 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . It is one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated, simple and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, further improved this year. It should be perfect for git, IRC and mail. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery.
For what the food concerns, we will have a cook who will take care of us :-) . There's a large dining space, but we will eat outside overlooking the lake if weather permits (very likely in June).

The all inclusive cost will be 550 Euro (Excl VAT) per person for the full week. You can stay all seven days and food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) is included in the price. As in previous years, we will go out for a city visit and a dinner on one of the evenings (also included).

The event will take place during the whole week (7 days), although the emphasis will probably be Monday to Friday for most participants.
Please contact me if you have questions about this event ([[User:ticheler |Jeroen Ticheler]])

== Network links ==

IRC channel: #bolsena at freenode

=== Registered Attendees ===

Those participating, you will need to make the payment of 550 Euro (Excl VAT) in advance to GeoCat bv to guarantee your place. Please contact me by email so I can send you the invoice and bank details. I've no problems if you later need to change as long as you make sure there's someone taking your place :-)

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="30"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="250"|Projects
!width="150"|single/double room?
!width="150"|Confirmed/tentative?
!width="150"|Advance paid?
!width="250"|Leaving at:
!width="250"|Breakfast help:
|-
| 1 ||[[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]] || [[GeoNetwork]] & [[Marketing]] || double || confirmed || x || || monday
|-
| 2 ||[[User:alfonx|Stefan Tzeggai]] || || single || confirmed || x || || sunday
|-
| 3 ||[[User:alfonx|Uli Rothstein]] || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 4 || Andreas Schmitz || [[Mapbender]], [[deegree]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || X || || monday
|-
| 6 ||[[User:josegar|Jose García]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || x || || monday
|-
| 7 ||[[User:arbakker|Anton Bakker]] || Geocat Bridge || single || confirmed || x || ||tuesday
|-
| 8 ||[[User:genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] || [[GeoNetwork]], Inspire, [[Cat-Interop]] || single || confirmed || x || ||tuesday
|-
| 9 ||[[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || x || || wednesday
|-
| 10 ||[[User:crischan|Christian Wygoda]] || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 11 ||[[User:MarkusSchneider2|Markus Schneider]] || [[deegree]] || single || confirmed || || || monday
|-
| n ||Copy this line and add your details || your projects || single/double || confirmed/tentative || || ||
|-
|}

: [1] please sign up to help with setting up and cleaning the breakfast during one day in the week.

=== Sponsoring ===
We are always welcoming sponsors!

=== How to arrive to the Monastery ===

The closest airports are the Roma airports (Ciampino and Fiumincino).

From Rome to the monastery there is 135 km aproximately.

There is no railway to Bolsena.

From Fiumicino to Rome you can take the train [http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-fco-train METROPOLITANO FR1].

From Rome you can take a bus (cotral http://www.cotralspa.it/ENG/capolinea.asp) to Viterbo and other bus from viterbo to Bolsena (9am & 7.30pm).

Alternatively you can take a train from Rome to Orvieto and take a taxi from Orvieto to Bolsena. Orvieto Taxi info:
1) Paolo of 'Gulliver Taxi' gullirent@alice.it tel 0763 302969 or mobile 330 477399.
2) Luigi gigitaxi@libero.it tel 338 9790846. Luigi speaks limited English
3) OrvietoTaxi : http://www.orvietotaxi.it simone@orvietotaxi.it is a good option (by Just)

Monday to Friday there is a bus each hour but Sunday there are very few buses.

From Bolsena main street to the Monastery is aproximately 1 km.

It could be interesting to rent a private bus or several cars to move from Rome to the Monastery and from the Monastery to Rome.

If you are interested in share vehicle please add your name to the following table and the columns you need for new ideas.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Name
!width="150"|I prefer to rent a bus
!width="150"|I prefer to share rented car
!width="150"|I prefer to get a ride if you have a car
!width="150"|I'll go with my car and I have free seats
!width="150"|I'll go by train
!width="150"|Comments
|-
| [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || || x || x || || || | I prefer to drive, but I don't own a car in Italy
|-
|''copy and paste this to add yourself''|| || || || || || |
|}

=== How to get back home ===

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Name
!width="150"|I prefer to rent a bus
!width="150"|I prefer to share rented car
!width="150"|I prefer to get a ride if you have a car
!width="150"|I'll go with my car and I have free seats
!width="150"|I'll go by train
!width="150"|Comments
|-
| [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || || x || x || || || | I prefer to drive, but I don't own a car in Italy
|-
|''copy and paste this to add yourself''|| || || || || || |
|}

=== Resources ===

==== Presentations ====

=== Blog posts ===

=== Photo's ===

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Bolsena]]

Bolsena Code Sprint 2014

2014-01-23T21:29:37Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Registered Attendees */

== OSGeo Hacking event in a monastery near Bolsena (1-7 June 2014) ==
; [[Event Owner]]: [[User:ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]
; When: [http://www.osgeo.org/node/1381 1-7 June 2014]
; Where: [http://tinyurl.com/2t6zby Bolsena - Italy]
; Agenda: [[Agenda 2014]]
; Previous years: [[OSGeo Hacking event|2008]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2009|2009]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2010|2010]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2011|2011]], [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2012|2012]] and [[Bolsena Code Sprint 2013|2013]]

After six successful years, we'll continue the OSGeo "hacking" event in Bolsena in an [http://www.conventobolsena.org/ Italian monastery] ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.646585&mlon=11.99335&zoom=14&layers=M see map location], and videos: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrZrK64UIw 2008-video], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxox3AsjH6Q 2009-video] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vjx06Rlols 2010-video]. The monastery is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to about 25 people in small bedrooms :-) . It is one of the coolest places for such an event. Quiet, isolated, simple and serene. There's a good wireless and wired internet connection, further improved this year. It should be perfect for git, IRC and mail. Have a look yourself, including looking at the photo gallery.
For what the food concerns, we will have a cook who will take care of us :-) . There's a large dining space, but we will eat outside overlooking the lake if weather permits (very likely in June).

The all inclusive cost will be 550 Euro (Excl VAT) per person for the full week. You can stay all seven days and food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) is included in the price. As in previous years, we will go out for a city visit and a dinner on one of the evenings (also included).

The event will take place during the whole week (7 days), although the emphasis will probably be Monday to Friday for most participants.
Please contact me if you have questions about this event ([[User:ticheler |Jeroen Ticheler]])

== Network links ==

IRC channel: #bolsena at freenode

=== Registered Attendees ===

Those participating, you will need to make the payment of 550 Euro (Excl VAT) in advance to GeoCat bv to guarantee your place. Please contact me by email so I can send you the invoice and bank details. I've no problems if you later need to change as long as you make sure there's someone taking your place :-)

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="30"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="250"|Projects
!width="150"|single/double room?
!width="150"|Confirmed/tentative?
!width="150"|Advance paid?
!width="250"|Leaving at:
!width="250"|Breakfast help:
|-
| 1 ||[[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]] || [[GeoNetwork]] & [[Marketing]] || double || confirmed || x || || monday
|-
| 2 ||[[User:alfonx|Stefan Tzeggai]] || || single || confirmed || x || || sunday
|-
| 3 ||[[User:alfonx|Uli Rothstein]] || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 4 || Andreas Schmitz || [[Mapbender]], [[deegree]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || X || || monday
|-
| 6 ||[[User:josegar|Jose García]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || x || || monday
|-
| 7 ||[[User:arbakker|Anton Bakker]] || Geocat Bridge || single || confirmed || x || ||tuesday
|-
| 8 ||[[User:genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] || [[GeoNetwork]], Inspire, [[Cat-Interop]] || single || confirmed || x || ||tuesday
|-
| 9 ||[[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] || [[GeoNetwork]] || single || confirmed || x || || wednesday
|-
| 10 ||[[User:crischan|Christian Wygoda]] || [[Mapbender]] || single || confirmed || || || sunday
|-
| 11 ||[[User:MarkusSchneider2|Markus Schneider]] || deegree || single || confirmed || || || monday
|-
| n ||Copy this line and add your details || your projects || single/double || confirmed/tentative || || ||
|-
|}

: [1] please sign up to help with setting up and cleaning the breakfast during one day in the week.

=== Sponsoring ===
We are always welcoming sponsors!

=== How to arrive to the Monastery ===

The closest airports are the Roma airports (Ciampino and Fiumincino).

From Rome to the monastery there is 135 km aproximately.

There is no railway to Bolsena.

From Fiumicino to Rome you can take the train [http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-fco-train METROPOLITANO FR1].

From Rome you can take a bus (cotral http://www.cotralspa.it/ENG/capolinea.asp) to Viterbo and other bus from viterbo to Bolsena (9am & 7.30pm).

Alternatively you can take a train from Rome to Orvieto and take a taxi from Orvieto to Bolsena. Orvieto Taxi info:
1) Paolo of 'Gulliver Taxi' gullirent@alice.it tel 0763 302969 or mobile 330 477399.
2) Luigi gigitaxi@libero.it tel 338 9790846. Luigi speaks limited English
3) OrvietoTaxi : http://www.orvietotaxi.it simone@orvietotaxi.it is a good option (by Just)

Monday to Friday there is a bus each hour but Sunday there are very few buses.

From Bolsena main street to the Monastery is aproximately 1 km.

It could be interesting to rent a private bus or several cars to move from Rome to the Monastery and from the Monastery to Rome.

If you are interested in share vehicle please add your name to the following table and the columns you need for new ideas.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Name
!width="150"|I prefer to rent a bus
!width="150"|I prefer to share rented car
!width="150"|I prefer to get a ride if you have a car
!width="150"|I'll go with my car and I have free seats
!width="150"|I'll go by train
!width="150"|Comments
|-
| [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || || x || x || || || | I prefer to drive, but I don't own a car in Italy
|-
|''copy and paste this to add yourself''|| || || || || || |
|}

=== How to get back home ===

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Name
!width="150"|I prefer to rent a bus
!width="150"|I prefer to share rented car
!width="150"|I prefer to get a ride if you have a car
!width="150"|I'll go with my car and I have free seats
!width="150"|I'll go by train
!width="150"|Comments
|-
| [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] || || x || x || || || | I prefer to drive, but I don't own a car in Italy
|-
|''copy and paste this to add yourself''|| || || || || || |
|}

=== Resources ===

==== Presentations ====

=== Blog posts ===

=== Photo's ===

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Bolsena]]

User:MarkusSchneider

2013-09-20T13:37:43Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Markus Schneider */

==== Markus Schneider ====
(chair of deegree's technical management committee)

:Occam Labs
:Godesberger Allee 139
:53175 Bonn

:+49 228 93798865

:[mailto:schneider@occamlabs.de email] schneider @ occamlabs.de
:http://occamlabs.de

; deegree
: http://deegree.org/

{{#umSetParam: 7.14895|50.68671|Bonn, Germany|MarkusSchneider|Markus Schneider}}

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-09-20T13:36:21Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities */

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2013]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2013 conference] in Nottingham, UK, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

Birds of a Feather sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

==Organising Contact==
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]

==Timeslots Available==

''Please check this page regularly before your session since some times/locations may change.''

= Birds of a feather organization =

If you would like to suggest a Birds of a Feather session, follow these guidelines:
* create a section below for your 'BOF'
* have people edit this page to indicate they will be attending
* you must provide a contact person who can manage the meeting
* also make your description as clear as possible, for many attendees it will be the only thing they read before choosing one
-->

= BOF sessions =

== Early Birds ==

* When - Sunday 15th September, 21:00 in '''Orchard Hotel Bar'''

A chance to meet up preconference for those of us who are arriving extra early.

Who is coming:
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]
* [[Jorge Sanz]]

== Education and ICA-OSGeo Labs meeting ==

The aim is to update latest developments in the education efforts and progress update on the ICA-OSGeo Labs network and update members on future plans

* When - Friday 20th September at 09:00 -10:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Specific topics:

* Welcome and overview -Suchith
* ICC 2013 update- Suchith
* "Open Geospatial Science & Applications Webinar Series" plans - All
* GeoMOOC ideas - Phillip Davis
* Curriculum discussion - All
* ELOGeo update - Suchith, Jeremy
* Setting up an Advisory Board - All
* Website update - All
* NASA Europa Challenge - Maria
* Responsibilities (moving forward (subcommittee chairs))
* COST Action - Maria
* Updates on bid opportunities focusing on H2020 -All
* Updates on relevant training opportunities -All
* AOB
* Next telemeeting date

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], University of Nottingham
* [[User:Jds|Jason Sadler]], GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - Universitat de Girona
* [[User:Lu_delazari|Luciene Delazari]], UFPR/Brazil
* [[User:fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[Arnulf Christl]], metaspatial Institute
* [[Phil James]], Newcastle University
* [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Rocha]], Universidade do Minho

Apologies:
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]] - Sorry, chairing a session...

== COST Action meeting ==

The aim is to discuss about next COST Action proposal "Smart environmental applications using free and open data and technologies"

* When - Friday 20th September at 10:00 -11:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano
* Peter Baumann, Jacobs University
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]], ITC - University Twente (when not busy on LOC duties...)
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - University of Girona
* [[User:philjames|Phil James]], Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, UK

== OSGeo Local Chapter meetup ==

* When - Saturday 21st September, '''Breakfast meeting''': 08:00 - 09:00 in '''Restaurant of Rutland Hall'''

* We'll have a table / space for each local chapter
* Existing members can hang out, and new people can find out about their local chapter, while having breakfast...
* Consider bringing something local to decorate your space - a small table-top flag, cloth or just leaflets describing your chapter
* Contact [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]] or update your chapter details below to take part

Who is coming:
* [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]. (chapter contact: [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]) [''We'll be holding our Annual General Meeting - join us'']
* Dutch Language Chapter [http://osgeo.nl OSGEO.nl]. (chapter contact: [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], [[BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]])
* German Language Chapter [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.]. (chapter contact: [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]])
* Korean Language Chapter [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter]. (chapter contact:[[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]])
* [[Español|Spanish Language Chapter]] (chapter contact: [[User:Delawen|María Arias]], [[OSGeo-es en el FOSS4G2013|coordination]])
* Add your chapter details here...
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] Australia/NZ (depends on timing)
Note: The '''OSGeo AGM''' is taking place on Friday evening from 6pm-7pm, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013

== Sensor Web BOF ==

Time Slot: Sometime during Friday

Topics:
* Sensor Web is gaining more and more relevance in many SDI frameworks as well as in the INSPIRE context
* Discuss on-going implementation activities
* Exchange on practical experiences how to bring sensor and observation data into SDIs
* What are new, upcoming challenges?

Who is coming:
* Simon Jirka (52°North)
* Paul van Genuchten (Geocat)
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman), if ever possible
* Brent Wood (NIWA) depending when
* Massimiliano Cannata (SUPSI) depending when

== Maps and Metadata BOF ==

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September at 17:30 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Topics:
* improving interoperability between the open source metadata servers (pycsw, ckan, hs, geonetwork, gicat, 52north, deegree, ...) and clients (catmdedit, hs, geonode, qgis, esri, mapwindow, openlayers, geoext/gxp/heron, ...)
** CSW OSGeo profile?
* Faceted search extensions
* metadata links articulation
* spatial relevance algorithms
* CSW 3, OpenSearch, Mass Market, Linked Data (rdf/sparql)
* future CSW Shootout?

Who is coming:
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (pycsw) (via irc)
* [[User:ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]] (GeoNode maintainer)
* [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (pycsw)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[Arnulf Christl]] (metaspatial)
* [[User:Amercader|Adrià Mercader]] (CKAN)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA)
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]]

== LocationTech BOF ==

Come share a pint with some folks from LocationTech.

* When - 7:30pm at The Round House Royal Standard Place, Nottingham, NG1 6FS

Who is coming:
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]]
* [[User:rcheetham|Robert Cheetham]]
* Richard Burcher
* Eddie Pickle
* Denise McKenzie
* Daniel Morissette (might be a bit late)
* Thanh Ha

== OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities ==
Based on the discussion in OSGeo-Discuss list [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html], the INPIRE/SDI BoF shall be a starting point for OSGeo being more active in SDIs. In particular [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ europes INSPIRE directive] has a big impact in all days work with geodata and national SDIs.

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September during luchtime (13:30-14:00/14:15)

Where: because this BOF is during lunchtime GeoCamp will be very crowded. Therefore this BOF will take place in '''Gallery 1''' one of the rooms just upstairs the welcome desk

Who is coming:
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]], [http://www.geomajas.org geomajas.org]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[User:MarkusSchneider|Markus Schneider]]

* ...

== OGC/OSGeo meet up ==
OGC and OSGeo have always been strongly linked, from our common roots in the early open source geospatial community, our 2008 MoU, and the ongoing benefits we continue to realize from each other's activities. As both organisations continue to lead at the top of their respective fields, are there ways that we can work more closely and provide greater support for each other's work?

This BoF is intended as an informal meet up to hear people's thoughts and suggestions.

* When - Friday 20th September, 08:00 - 09:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee.
'''since this page has always said that the OSGeo/OGC BoF will be in the marquee we will go ahead and meet there. Please ignore the confusion of the suggestion to meet in student halls'''

Who is coming:
* Denise McKenzie, OGC Marketing and Communications
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]], OSGeo UK/WebCom, OGC member
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano, OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA, OGC member)

See also: http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC

== OSGeo-Live ==
Ideas for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] BOF (which might spill into a [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint Code Sprint] with sufficient interest):
* Discuss strategy for improving translation process
* Work out a strategy for printing and distributing DVDs / USBs, and paying for them. The hard part is working out how to process 50+ requests for DVDs per year.
* Many of the quickstarts need review/tweaks. A day of people running quickstarts, reporting issues, capturing screen shots, would greatly benefit the project. It would be a great introduction for someone to both OSGeo software, and the Open Source development process, as well as being a very valuable contribution to the community.

;Topics
* '''(please add or change the topics if the definition is not clear defined or in pigeon english)'''
* How to create PDF documentation?
* i18n
* Work on a vargant solution http://www.vagrantup.com/
* Online use of OSGeo-Live (upload the iso and then test it in the cloud)
* get involved in the EDU team
* What about using Transiflex? https://www.transifex.com/
* Shall we move to github or Gitorious ..? Does OSGeo provides a git server?
* Does OSGeo provide a server to make builds like Jenkins?
* proxy - Solution to ony set the proxy one time
* Quickstart - use data from all the programms. Do not use your own data: Goal: work on a common dataset
* Did you know about the installation link on the desktop, to refer to other packages?
* solution were you only can install the packages you want
* apt-get install osgeolive osgeolive-doc
* Solution for documnetation that you can localy update
* What about making a book?
* PostCards

Time Slot: Thursday, 19th, 6-7pm (Room : 3 at EMCC)

Who is coming:
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (OSGeoLive developer)
* [[Jorge Sanz]] - OSGeo Live gvSIG package maintainer and Spanish translator
* [[User:lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] - OSGeo Live Italian translator
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]] - uDIG and GeoServer maintainer & German translator
* [[User:johanvdw|Johan Van de Wauw]] - maintainer and dev
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]] - Mapbender maintainer & German translator
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]] - Mapserver & Osgeo Live French translator

Please join also the [[FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#Education_and_ICA-OSGeo_Labs_meeting]] Fr 9-10 am

== InaSAFE BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Thursday 19th 5:30 - 6:30pm at GeoCamp Marquee; Please fill the [http://doodle.com/6g2x2umpwwarazs9 Doodle]

Great opportunity for the distributed network of developers and users to meet each other and discuss InaSAFE [http://inasafe.org/] as well as for newcomers and workshop attendants [http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/workshops/9/] to become involved in the community.

Topics:
* use cases: past experiences, future plans
* documentation and training material
* road map

Who is coming:
* [[User:vdeparday| Vivien Deparday]] (GFDRR - World Bank)
* [[User:amaneiro| Andrés Maneiro]], developer @ [http://icarto.es iCarto]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[User:timlinux|Tim Sutton]] (Linfiniti)
* [[User:vanpuk|Kristy Van Putten]] (AIFDR-GA)

== ELOGeo - learning materials for FOSS-GIS ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 1-1:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

The ELOGeo platform has been set up as a means for the community to share learning resources for FOSS GIS under a Creative Commons 3 licence. We at the University of Nottingham have some additional funding to work on functionality and design of the system, and we're interested in some community views on this. Please come along to say what you think! (Not usually a problem in OSGeo...) We'll have some design ideas for you to think about, and questions about the content & access.

Topics:
* how useful is the current collection of materials?
* organisation: what are good ways to tag or organise the collection?
* design: how could this be improved?

Who is coming:
* [[User:jmorley| Jeremy Morley]] (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)
* Adam Rousell (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)

== The Future of GeoExt BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 15:30-16:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

GeoExt brings together the geospatial know how of OpenLayers with the user interface savvy of Ext JS to help you build powerful desktop style GIS apps on the web with JavaScript. With the development of OpenLayers 3, does it make sense to create GeoExt 3 ?

Topics:
* GeoExt 3 ?
* Possible alternatives ?
* is it possible to implement a front-end GeoServer client via REST?

Who is coming:
* [[User:cmoullet| Cédric Moullet]] (swisstopo)
* [[User:IanMayo|Ian Mayo]]
* [[User:Delawen|Maria Arias de Reyna]] (geocat/geonetwork) if I can make it
* [[User:Lads| Luís de Sousa (CRP Henri Tudor)]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
----

More information on other Birds of a Feather sessions will be added here before the event
See [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather] for inspiration!

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-09-20T13:36:02Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities */

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2013]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2013 conference] in Nottingham, UK, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

Birds of a Feather sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

==Organising Contact==
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]

==Timeslots Available==

''Please check this page regularly before your session since some times/locations may change.''

= Birds of a feather organization =

If you would like to suggest a Birds of a Feather session, follow these guidelines:
* create a section below for your 'BOF'
* have people edit this page to indicate they will be attending
* you must provide a contact person who can manage the meeting
* also make your description as clear as possible, for many attendees it will be the only thing they read before choosing one
-->

= BOF sessions =

== Early Birds ==

* When - Sunday 15th September, 21:00 in '''Orchard Hotel Bar'''

A chance to meet up preconference for those of us who are arriving extra early.

Who is coming:
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]
* [[Jorge Sanz]]

== Education and ICA-OSGeo Labs meeting ==

The aim is to update latest developments in the education efforts and progress update on the ICA-OSGeo Labs network and update members on future plans

* When - Friday 20th September at 09:00 -10:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Specific topics:

* Welcome and overview -Suchith
* ICC 2013 update- Suchith
* "Open Geospatial Science & Applications Webinar Series" plans - All
* GeoMOOC ideas - Phillip Davis
* Curriculum discussion - All
* ELOGeo update - Suchith, Jeremy
* Setting up an Advisory Board - All
* Website update - All
* NASA Europa Challenge - Maria
* Responsibilities (moving forward (subcommittee chairs))
* COST Action - Maria
* Updates on bid opportunities focusing on H2020 -All
* Updates on relevant training opportunities -All
* AOB
* Next telemeeting date

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], University of Nottingham
* [[User:Jds|Jason Sadler]], GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - Universitat de Girona
* [[User:Lu_delazari|Luciene Delazari]], UFPR/Brazil
* [[User:fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[Arnulf Christl]], metaspatial Institute
* [[Phil James]], Newcastle University
* [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Rocha]], Universidade do Minho

Apologies:
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]] - Sorry, chairing a session...

== COST Action meeting ==

The aim is to discuss about next COST Action proposal "Smart environmental applications using free and open data and technologies"

* When - Friday 20th September at 10:00 -11:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano
* Peter Baumann, Jacobs University
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]], ITC - University Twente (when not busy on LOC duties...)
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - University of Girona
* [[User:philjames|Phil James]], Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, UK

== OSGeo Local Chapter meetup ==

* When - Saturday 21st September, '''Breakfast meeting''': 08:00 - 09:00 in '''Restaurant of Rutland Hall'''

* We'll have a table / space for each local chapter
* Existing members can hang out, and new people can find out about their local chapter, while having breakfast...
* Consider bringing something local to decorate your space - a small table-top flag, cloth or just leaflets describing your chapter
* Contact [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]] or update your chapter details below to take part

Who is coming:
* [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]. (chapter contact: [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]) [''We'll be holding our Annual General Meeting - join us'']
* Dutch Language Chapter [http://osgeo.nl OSGEO.nl]. (chapter contact: [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], [[BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]])
* German Language Chapter [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.]. (chapter contact: [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]])
* Korean Language Chapter [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter]. (chapter contact:[[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]])
* [[Español|Spanish Language Chapter]] (chapter contact: [[User:Delawen|María Arias]], [[OSGeo-es en el FOSS4G2013|coordination]])
* Add your chapter details here...
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] Australia/NZ (depends on timing)
Note: The '''OSGeo AGM''' is taking place on Friday evening from 6pm-7pm, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013

== Sensor Web BOF ==

Time Slot: Sometime during Friday

Topics:
* Sensor Web is gaining more and more relevance in many SDI frameworks as well as in the INSPIRE context
* Discuss on-going implementation activities
* Exchange on practical experiences how to bring sensor and observation data into SDIs
* What are new, upcoming challenges?

Who is coming:
* Simon Jirka (52°North)
* Paul van Genuchten (Geocat)
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman), if ever possible
* Brent Wood (NIWA) depending when
* Massimiliano Cannata (SUPSI) depending when

== Maps and Metadata BOF ==

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September at 17:30 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Topics:
* improving interoperability between the open source metadata servers (pycsw, ckan, hs, geonetwork, gicat, 52north, deegree, ...) and clients (catmdedit, hs, geonode, qgis, esri, mapwindow, openlayers, geoext/gxp/heron, ...)
** CSW OSGeo profile?
* Faceted search extensions
* metadata links articulation
* spatial relevance algorithms
* CSW 3, OpenSearch, Mass Market, Linked Data (rdf/sparql)
* future CSW Shootout?

Who is coming:
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (pycsw) (via irc)
* [[User:ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]] (GeoNode maintainer)
* [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (pycsw)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[Arnulf Christl]] (metaspatial)
* [[User:Amercader|Adrià Mercader]] (CKAN)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA)
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]]

== LocationTech BOF ==

Come share a pint with some folks from LocationTech.

* When - 7:30pm at The Round House Royal Standard Place, Nottingham, NG1 6FS

Who is coming:
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]]
* [[User:rcheetham|Robert Cheetham]]
* Richard Burcher
* Eddie Pickle
* Denise McKenzie
* Daniel Morissette (might be a bit late)
* Thanh Ha

== OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities ==
Based on the discussion in OSGeo-Discuss list [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html], the INPIRE/SDI BoF shall be a starting point for OSGeo being more active in SDIs. In particular [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ europes INSPIRE directive] has a big impact in all days work with geodata and national SDIs.

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September during luchtime (13:30-14:00/14:15)

Where: because this BOF is during lunchtime GeoCamp will be very crowded. Therefore this BOF will take place in '''Gallery 1''' one of the rooms just upstairs the welcome desk

Who is coming:
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]], [http://www.geomajas.org geomajas.org]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[User:MarkusSchneider2|Markus Schneider]]

* ...

== OGC/OSGeo meet up ==
OGC and OSGeo have always been strongly linked, from our common roots in the early open source geospatial community, our 2008 MoU, and the ongoing benefits we continue to realize from each other's activities. As both organisations continue to lead at the top of their respective fields, are there ways that we can work more closely and provide greater support for each other's work?

This BoF is intended as an informal meet up to hear people's thoughts and suggestions.

* When - Friday 20th September, 08:00 - 09:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee.
'''since this page has always said that the OSGeo/OGC BoF will be in the marquee we will go ahead and meet there. Please ignore the confusion of the suggestion to meet in student halls'''

Who is coming:
* Denise McKenzie, OGC Marketing and Communications
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]], OSGeo UK/WebCom, OGC member
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano, OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA, OGC member)

See also: http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC

== OSGeo-Live ==
Ideas for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] BOF (which might spill into a [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint Code Sprint] with sufficient interest):
* Discuss strategy for improving translation process
* Work out a strategy for printing and distributing DVDs / USBs, and paying for them. The hard part is working out how to process 50+ requests for DVDs per year.
* Many of the quickstarts need review/tweaks. A day of people running quickstarts, reporting issues, capturing screen shots, would greatly benefit the project. It would be a great introduction for someone to both OSGeo software, and the Open Source development process, as well as being a very valuable contribution to the community.

;Topics
* '''(please add or change the topics if the definition is not clear defined or in pigeon english)'''
* How to create PDF documentation?
* i18n
* Work on a vargant solution http://www.vagrantup.com/
* Online use of OSGeo-Live (upload the iso and then test it in the cloud)
* get involved in the EDU team
* What about using Transiflex? https://www.transifex.com/
* Shall we move to github or Gitorious ..? Does OSGeo provides a git server?
* Does OSGeo provide a server to make builds like Jenkins?
* proxy - Solution to ony set the proxy one time
* Quickstart - use data from all the programms. Do not use your own data: Goal: work on a common dataset
* Did you know about the installation link on the desktop, to refer to other packages?
* solution were you only can install the packages you want
* apt-get install osgeolive osgeolive-doc
* Solution for documnetation that you can localy update
* What about making a book?
* PostCards

Time Slot: Thursday, 19th, 6-7pm (Room : 3 at EMCC)

Who is coming:
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (OSGeoLive developer)
* [[Jorge Sanz]] - OSGeo Live gvSIG package maintainer and Spanish translator
* [[User:lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] - OSGeo Live Italian translator
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]] - uDIG and GeoServer maintainer & German translator
* [[User:johanvdw|Johan Van de Wauw]] - maintainer and dev
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]] - Mapbender maintainer & German translator
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]] - Mapserver & Osgeo Live French translator

Please join also the [[FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#Education_and_ICA-OSGeo_Labs_meeting]] Fr 9-10 am

== InaSAFE BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Thursday 19th 5:30 - 6:30pm at GeoCamp Marquee; Please fill the [http://doodle.com/6g2x2umpwwarazs9 Doodle]

Great opportunity for the distributed network of developers and users to meet each other and discuss InaSAFE [http://inasafe.org/] as well as for newcomers and workshop attendants [http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/workshops/9/] to become involved in the community.

Topics:
* use cases: past experiences, future plans
* documentation and training material
* road map

Who is coming:
* [[User:vdeparday| Vivien Deparday]] (GFDRR - World Bank)
* [[User:amaneiro| Andrés Maneiro]], developer @ [http://icarto.es iCarto]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[User:timlinux|Tim Sutton]] (Linfiniti)
* [[User:vanpuk|Kristy Van Putten]] (AIFDR-GA)

== ELOGeo - learning materials for FOSS-GIS ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 1-1:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

The ELOGeo platform has been set up as a means for the community to share learning resources for FOSS GIS under a Creative Commons 3 licence. We at the University of Nottingham have some additional funding to work on functionality and design of the system, and we're interested in some community views on this. Please come along to say what you think! (Not usually a problem in OSGeo...) We'll have some design ideas for you to think about, and questions about the content & access.

Topics:
* how useful is the current collection of materials?
* organisation: what are good ways to tag or organise the collection?
* design: how could this be improved?

Who is coming:
* [[User:jmorley| Jeremy Morley]] (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)
* Adam Rousell (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)

== The Future of GeoExt BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 15:30-16:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

GeoExt brings together the geospatial know how of OpenLayers with the user interface savvy of Ext JS to help you build powerful desktop style GIS apps on the web with JavaScript. With the development of OpenLayers 3, does it make sense to create GeoExt 3 ?

Topics:
* GeoExt 3 ?
* Possible alternatives ?
* is it possible to implement a front-end GeoServer client via REST?

Who is coming:
* [[User:cmoullet| Cédric Moullet]] (swisstopo)
* [[User:IanMayo|Ian Mayo]]
* [[User:Delawen|Maria Arias de Reyna]] (geocat/geonetwork) if I can make it
* [[User:Lads| Luís de Sousa (CRP Henri Tudor)]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
----

More information on other Birds of a Feather sessions will be added here before the event
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Geoservices REST API

2013-05-13T10:26:22Z

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This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the "Geoservices REST API" 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.

= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =
''Please don't edit this "Cover Letter" statement, which has been approved by the OSGeo Board.''

The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC. It highlights concerns about the "GeoServices REST API" 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.

Signed: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo president),
Peter Batty,
Jáchym Čepický,
Michael Gerlek,
Anne Ghisla,
Mark Lucas,
Daniel Morissette,
Cameron Shorter,
Frank Warmerdam

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go in the "Further Concerns" section below.''

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.

We strongly urge that the proposed "Geoservices REST API", as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.

People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.

== Signed ==
''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.''

# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Principal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
# [[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]
# [[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]
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
# [[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]
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
# [[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]
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
# [[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.
# [[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.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
# [[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.
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
# [[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
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
# [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.
# [[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/]
# [[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]
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
# [[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)
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)
# [[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)
# [[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
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend Köbben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]
# [[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
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer
# [[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
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town & Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant & Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [httpo://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].
# [[User:mikesaunt|Mike Saunt]], UK, Owner at [http://astuntechnology.com Astun Technology Ltd], OSGeo sponsor
# [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]], OSGeo Charter Member, Physical Scientist US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center
# [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]], OSGeo Charter Member, Researcher at National Technical University of Athens
# [[User:Kimaidou|Michaël Douchin]], France, GIS consultant & software engineer at [http://3liz.com/ 3liz]
# [[User:PedroVenancio | Pedro Venâncio]], Portugal, GIS Analyst @ Municipality of Pinhel
# [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]], Portugal, GIS Professor at Universidade do Minho
# [[User:Danielkastl| Daniel Kastl]], Japan, [http://georepublic.info Georepublic], Founder
# [[Diodata|John Callahan]], US, Research Scientist and GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, University of Delaware
# [[User:kjkalyan|Kalyan Janakiraman]], Senior Systems Analyst, Business Development Services, NSW Land and Property Information, Sydney, Australia
# [[User:goliadranger|Phillip Davis]], Director, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, Texas, USA
# [[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)
# [[User:jbryant|John Bryant]], Consultant, Mammoth Mapping, Dawson City, Canada and GIS/DB Admin, Jupiter Mines, Perth, Australia
# [[ChIossif|Christos Iossifides]], Remote Sensing Instructor, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Remote Sensing Instructor and Researcher, National Technical University of Athens
# [[User:tbowden|Tim Bowden]], Spatial Consultant, Perth, Australia
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], GIS Technician, Trento, Italy
# [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]], GIS software developer, Utrecht, Netherlands
# [[User:eyedol|Henry Addo]], Software Developer at Ushahidi [http://ushahidi.com], contributor of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
# [[User:iacovellas|Stefano Iacovella]], GIS consultant & software engineer, Rome, Italy
# [[User:Mtoonen| Meine Toonen]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl B3Partners], The Netherlands
# [[User:arneke| Arne Kepp]], Software Engineer, Oslo, Norway
# [[User:Pirmin_Kalberer| Pirmin Kalberer]], Managing director [http://sourcepole.com/ Sourcepole], [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member, Contributor of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://qgis.org QGIS], [http://mapfish.org/ Mapfish], [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS UbuntuGIS], [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], Switzerland
# [[User:hdus| Dr. Horst Düster]], Managing director [http://sourcepole.com/ Sourcepole], [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member, Treasurer QGIS Project [http://qgis.org QGIS], Zürich, Switzerland
# [[User:rduivenvoorde| Richard Duivenvoorde]], Managing director & software developer [http://www.webmapper.net/ Webmapper], QGIS community member
# [[User:stevenfeldman|Steven Feldman]], Principal at [http://knowwhereconslting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting] and Chair of the LOC for [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2013]
# [[User:Edward_Mac_Gillavry| Edward Mac Gillavry]], Managing director & software developer [http://www.webmapper.net/ Webmapper]
# [[User:maximdubinin| Maxim Dubinin]], CEO at [http://www.nextgis.org/ NextGIS], head of [http://gis-lab.info GIS-Lab.info]
# [[User:flavour| Fran Boon]], PMC Chair at [http://sahanafoundation.org/ Sahana Foundation], CTO of [http://aidiq.com AidIQ]
# [[User:Ian| Ian Edwards]], Chair [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]
# [[User:Bishop|Dmitriy Baryshnikov]] Developer at [http://www.nextgis.org/ NextGIS], [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR] committer, [http://wxgis.googlecode.com wxGIS] developer, [http://gis-lab.info GIS-Lab.info] community member
# [[User:cvanlith| Chris van Lith]], Director [http://www.b3partners.nl B3Partners], member of [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:VincentP| Vincent Picavet]], co-founder of [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia], founding member and treasurer of OSGeo-FR
# [[User:Stefan_A._Tzeggai| Stefan A. Tzeggai]], creator of [http://www.geopublishing.org/AtlasStyler AtlasStyler SLD editor], founder of [http://www.empirica-systeme.de empirica systeme gmbh]
# [[User:Rdewit| Roald de Wit]], Geospatial Software Engineer, Melbourne, Australia
# [[User:grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]], working at the [http://www.cnes.fr/ French Space Agency], [http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/ ORFEO ToolBox library] developer
# [[User:RdeMoritoru| Toru Mori]], President & CEO, [http://www.orkney.co.jp Orkney, Inc.], Yokohama, Japan, Representative of OSGeo Japan Chapter, OSGeo Charter Member
# [[User:MarkusSchneider2|Markus Schneider]], TMC chair of the [http://www.deegree.org deegree project], CEO of [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs]

= Summary =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

The document titled "GeoServices REST API" 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.

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).

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.

== Criticism and Response ==

The adoption of the document as an OGC Standard is contentious for a wide variety of reasons including:

* the process through which the document was developed which is thought to lack sufficient flexibility to respond to input from various stakeholders,
* the focus of the document on 'REST' and 'API' which is seen as not matching the ideas others have for these concepts,
* the names of the standard and of the services which are seen as potentially confusing,
* 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,
* 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,
* 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,
* the use of the particular JSON schemas which are seen as having little industry acceptance and are incompatible with other widely used schemas, and
* 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.

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.

In particular there are concerns by some that adoption of the standard will likely result in a combination of the following:
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.
# 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.
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the "OGC standards" stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.
# 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.
# 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.

In response to these issues, the authors of the Geoservices REST API document have stated that:

* the process of the OGC has been followed completely,
* the specification actually is RESTful and does define an API,
* the name, due to the controversy, may be open for modification
* 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,
* the JSON format exists and functions, and
* there are alternative implementations for some of these services.

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.

= Positions on the vote =
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

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 "Geoservices REST API" 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.

; The pros for accepting the "Geoservices REST API" document as an OGC standard:

:* The OGC should be in the business of developing good standards, not in choosing which standards should be implemented.
:* 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.
:* 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.
:* The proposed document could be useful to a number of people.
:* 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]:
:''"I know how totally impossible it is to write a good standard, so the weaknesses in the existing document seem more acceptable."''

; The cons:

:* 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.
:* 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 "Geoservices REST API" document bodes ill for the future.
:* 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.
:* 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.
:* The document, as a new, separate effort, repeats mistakes which were made and since solved by the other services.
:* The document focuses on the past (notably with backwards compatibility and use of only GET/POST) not on the future.
:* The document needs a comprehensive editorial review and substantial rewriting for clarity.

; A conclusion:

Both simple answers are bad.

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.

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.

Is there any third way?

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.

= Issues with the document =

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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.

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.

The critique can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique.

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.

= Further Concerns =
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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.''

== Political Concerns ==

* <strike>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.</strike>
* <strike>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. ?</strike>

== Commercial Concerns ==

* <strike>Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.</strike>
* <strike>Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.</strike>
* <strike>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.</strike>
* <strike>Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.</strike>

== Technical Concerns ==

* <strike>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.</strike>
* 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.
* <strike>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.</strike>
* see [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique#The_Technical_Approach this discussion] for detailed arguments why OGC WCS is superior to the "GeoServices REST API" Part 6. It concludes: ''In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" 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 "Geoservice REST API" provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.''

== Methodological Concerns ==

# 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.
# 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.
# 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.

A response (from Adrian Custer):

# The OGC is working to release those documents to the public as of 9 May 2013.
# 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.)
# That is not true, the OGC does not require interoperability experiments or some "richer process" for the adoption of a standard; that may be desirable but is not required.

= Further Reading =
''Please add links to referenced documents, related news stories or blog posts here.''
* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html
* 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
* "Is OGC Loosing its way?", letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Geoservices REST API

2013-05-13T10:25:24Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the "Geoservices REST API" 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.

= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =
''Please don't edit this "Cover Letter" statement, which has been approved by the OSGeo Board.''

The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC. It highlights concerns about the "GeoServices REST API" 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.

Signed: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo president),
Peter Batty,
Jáchym Čepický,
Michael Gerlek,
Anne Ghisla,
Mark Lucas,
Daniel Morissette,
Cameron Shorter,
Frank Warmerdam

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go in the "Further Concerns" section below.''

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.

We strongly urge that the proposed "Geoservices REST API", as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.

People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.

== Signed ==
''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.''

# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Principal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
# [[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]
# [[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]
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
# [[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]
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
# [[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]
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
# [[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.
# [[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.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
# [[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.
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
# [[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
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
# [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.
# [[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/]
# [[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]
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
# [[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)
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)
# [[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)
# [[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
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend Köbben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]
# [[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
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer
# [[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
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town & Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant & Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [httpo://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].
# [[User:mikesaunt|Mike Saunt]], UK, Owner at [http://astuntechnology.com Astun Technology Ltd], OSGeo sponsor
# [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]], OSGeo Charter Member, Physical Scientist US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center
# [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]], OSGeo Charter Member, Researcher at National Technical University of Athens
# [[User:Kimaidou|Michaël Douchin]], France, GIS consultant & software engineer at [http://3liz.com/ 3liz]
# [[User:PedroVenancio | Pedro Venâncio]], Portugal, GIS Analyst @ Municipality of Pinhel
# [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]], Portugal, GIS Professor at Universidade do Minho
# [[User:Danielkastl| Daniel Kastl]], Japan, [http://georepublic.info Georepublic], Founder
# [[Diodata|John Callahan]], US, Research Scientist and GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, University of Delaware
# [[User:kjkalyan|Kalyan Janakiraman]], Senior Systems Analyst, Business Development Services, NSW Land and Property Information, Sydney, Australia
# [[User:goliadranger|Phillip Davis]], Director, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, Texas, USA
# [[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)
# [[User:jbryant|John Bryant]], Consultant, Mammoth Mapping, Dawson City, Canada and GIS/DB Admin, Jupiter Mines, Perth, Australia
# [[ChIossif|Christos Iossifides]], Remote Sensing Instructor, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Remote Sensing Instructor and Researcher, National Technical University of Athens
# [[User:tbowden|Tim Bowden]], Spatial Consultant, Perth, Australia
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], GIS Technician, Trento, Italy
# [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]], GIS software developer, Utrecht, Netherlands
# [[User:eyedol|Henry Addo]], Software Developer at Ushahidi [http://ushahidi.com], contributor of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
# [[User:iacovellas|Stefano Iacovella]], GIS consultant & software engineer, Rome, Italy
# [[User:Mtoonen| Meine Toonen]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl B3Partners], The Netherlands
# [[User:arneke| Arne Kepp]], Software Engineer, Oslo, Norway
# [[User:Pirmin_Kalberer| Pirmin Kalberer]], Managing director [http://sourcepole.com/ Sourcepole], [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member, Contributor of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://qgis.org QGIS], [http://mapfish.org/ Mapfish], [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS UbuntuGIS], [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], Switzerland
# [[User:hdus| Dr. Horst Düster]], Managing director [http://sourcepole.com/ Sourcepole], [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member, Treasurer QGIS Project [http://qgis.org QGIS], Zürich, Switzerland
# [[User:rduivenvoorde| Richard Duivenvoorde]], Managing director & software developer [http://www.webmapper.net/ Webmapper], QGIS community member
# [[User:stevenfeldman|Steven Feldman]], Principal at [http://knowwhereconslting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting] and Chair of the LOC for [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2013]
# [[User:Edward_Mac_Gillavry| Edward Mac Gillavry]], Managing director & software developer [http://www.webmapper.net/ Webmapper]
# [[User:maximdubinin| Maxim Dubinin]], CEO at [http://www.nextgis.org/ NextGIS], head of [http://gis-lab.info GIS-Lab.info]
# [[User:flavour| Fran Boon]], PMC Chair at [http://sahanafoundation.org/ Sahana Foundation], CTO of [http://aidiq.com AidIQ]
# [[User:Ian| Ian Edwards]], Chair [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]
# [[User:Bishop|Dmitriy Baryshnikov]] Developer at [http://www.nextgis.org/ NextGIS], [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR] committer, [http://wxgis.googlecode.com wxGIS] developer, [http://gis-lab.info GIS-Lab.info] community member
# [[User:cvanlith| Chris van Lith]], Director [http://www.b3partners.nl B3Partners], member of [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:VincentP| Vincent Picavet]], co-founder of [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia], founding member and treasurer of OSGeo-FR
# [[User:Stefan_A._Tzeggai| Stefan A. Tzeggai]], creator of [http://www.geopublishing.org/AtlasStyler AtlasStyler SLD editor], founder of [http://www.empirica-systeme.de empirica systeme gmbh]
# [[User:Rdewit| Roald de Wit]], Geospatial Software Engineer, Melbourne, Australia
# [[User:grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]], working at the [http://www.cnes.fr/ French Space Agency], [http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/ ORFEO ToolBox library] developer
# [[User:RdeMoritoru| Toru Mori]], President & CEO, [http://www.orkney.co.jp Orkney, Inc.], Yokohama, Japan, Representative of OSGeo Japan Chapter, OSGeo Charter Member
# [[User:MarkusSchneider2| Markus Schneider]], TMC chair of the [http://www.deegree.org deegree project], CEO of [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs]

= Summary =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

The document titled "GeoServices REST API" 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.

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).

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.

== Criticism and Response ==

The adoption of the document as an OGC Standard is contentious for a wide variety of reasons including:

* the process through which the document was developed which is thought to lack sufficient flexibility to respond to input from various stakeholders,
* the focus of the document on 'REST' and 'API' which is seen as not matching the ideas others have for these concepts,
* the names of the standard and of the services which are seen as potentially confusing,
* 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,
* 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,
* 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,
* the use of the particular JSON schemas which are seen as having little industry acceptance and are incompatible with other widely used schemas, and
* 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.

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.

In particular there are concerns by some that adoption of the standard will likely result in a combination of the following:
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.
# 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.
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the "OGC standards" stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.
# 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.
# 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.

In response to these issues, the authors of the Geoservices REST API document have stated that:

* the process of the OGC has been followed completely,
* the specification actually is RESTful and does define an API,
* the name, due to the controversy, may be open for modification
* 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,
* the JSON format exists and functions, and
* there are alternative implementations for some of these services.

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.

= Positions on the vote =
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

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 "Geoservices REST API" 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.

; The pros for accepting the "Geoservices REST API" document as an OGC standard:

:* The OGC should be in the business of developing good standards, not in choosing which standards should be implemented.
:* 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.
:* 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.
:* The proposed document could be useful to a number of people.
:* 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]:
:''"I know how totally impossible it is to write a good standard, so the weaknesses in the existing document seem more acceptable."''

; The cons:

:* 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.
:* 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 "Geoservices REST API" document bodes ill for the future.
:* 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.
:* 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.
:* The document, as a new, separate effort, repeats mistakes which were made and since solved by the other services.
:* The document focuses on the past (notably with backwards compatibility and use of only GET/POST) not on the future.
:* The document needs a comprehensive editorial review and substantial rewriting for clarity.

; A conclusion:

Both simple answers are bad.

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.

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.

Is there any third way?

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.

= Issues with the document =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

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.

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.

The critique can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique.

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.

= Further Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''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.''

== Political Concerns ==

* <strike>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.</strike>
* <strike>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. ?</strike>

== Commercial Concerns ==

* <strike>Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.</strike>
* <strike>Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.</strike>
* <strike>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.</strike>
* <strike>Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.</strike>

== Technical Concerns ==

* <strike>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.</strike>
* 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.
* <strike>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.</strike>
* see [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique#The_Technical_Approach this discussion] for detailed arguments why OGC WCS is superior to the "GeoServices REST API" Part 6. It concludes: ''In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" 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 "Geoservice REST API" provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.''

== Methodological Concerns ==

# 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.
# 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.
# 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.

A response (from Adrian Custer):

# The OGC is working to release those documents to the public as of 9 May 2013.
# 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.)
# That is not true, the OGC does not require interoperability experiments or some "richer process" for the adoption of a standard; that may be desirable but is not required.

= Further Reading =
''Please add links to referenced documents, related news stories or blog posts here.''
* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html
* 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
* "Is OGC Loosing its way?", letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

INSPIRE conference 2013

2013-03-15T15:59:07Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE */

Coordination of activities of OSGeo projects at INSPIRE Conference

== Links ==

* [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/ Conference page]

== Deadlines ==

* March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
* March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals

== Presentation and workshop ==

On this page, two separate events are discussed: a proposal for a presentation, and a proposal for a workshop.

The purpose of the presentation is to give a good overview of INSPIRE-readiness of the OSGeo projects, with an intended audience of general users.

The workshop, on the other hand, aims to give a quick overview of each (represented) OSGeo project and where it stands in relation to the INSPIRE technical guidelines, followed by a round-table dialog between OSGeo developers and JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee members about issues raised.

Please note that if you like to participate in both events, each has its own list of participants. If you're enlisting as a participant this would imply further commitment, e.g. to assist in the preparation of slides and paper and if possible, presence at the conference as a speaker.

== Paper proposal ==

Generic talk about OSGeo projects and their relation to INSPIRE.

=== OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Arnulf Christl5, Simone Giannecchini6, Jeroen Ticheler7, Markus Schneider8, Nicola Giuliani9, Andrea Aime6, Paolo Cavallini10, Jose García7, '''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], Germany
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# [http://www.trilogis.it Trilogis], Rovereto, Italy
# Faunalia, Italy
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''The abstract should not exceed two A4 pages.''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

Since the earliest beginning of INSPIRE open source developers have been involved with implementing systems which eventually have to satisfy INSPIRE requirements. Users have requested new features and capabilities to enable their software packages to address requirements resulting from the INSPIRE directive. Developers in turn have given technical feedback to the makers of the directive. As a result INSPIRE over time has evolved into an implementable real-world architecture.

Many members of the OSGeo development teams are located in Europe, and many of them are actively involved in implementing INSPIRE services and geo-portals. There has been a lot of volunteered and financial contribution to OSGeo projects to help implement the official INSPIRE specifications. With the help of many testers, users and community members, OSGeo projects are offering better INSPIRE support year after year.

This presentation is focused on the introduction of various popular OSGeo projects, which are used for particular tasks within the INSPIRE infrastructure. The presentation will reference certified OSGeo projects as well as projects from the broader OSGeo ecosystem which have not passed the incubation process yet. Each project will summarize the achievements over the last year of development with respect to INSPIRE and include a short report on future development. This will provide a comprehensive overview of features in the OSGeo community pipeline which will have direct impact on their usage for INSPIRE.

'''Keywords:''' OSGeo, Open Source, MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, deegree, Mapbender, GDAL, GeoNetwork, pycsw, OSGeoLive, NASA World Wind, Mapbender, GRASS, Quantum GIS, gvSIG, '''add more here'''

== Workshop proposal ==
The proposing team suggests to implement this workshop in a barcamp style within the conference. This will probably attract a more diverse group of people and allow for more dynamic communication which is one of the most important aspects requried to really get INSPIRE implemented. The aim is to get developers and project leads from OSGeo and professionals involved with INSPIRE around one table and shed light on each other's world.

From the conference website:

''Pre-conference workshops will take place on the 23/24 June. Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all conference participants at no additional cost, however a daily fee will be charged for those attending workshops only.''

=== Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli2, Margherita Di Leo3, Angelos Tzotsos4, Markus Schneider5, Heikki Doeleman6, Jeroen Ticheler6, Simone Giannecchini7, Andrea Aime7, Paolo Cavallini8, Nicola Giuliani9, Jose García6,'''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# Faunalia, Italy
# Trilogis, Italy
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''proposal ''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit international organization, created in early 2006 to the aim of supporting the collaborative development of geospatial open source software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

OSGeo is an umbrella for high quality open source geospatial applications providing the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysing and manipulating data.

In the first part (60 minutes) of the workshop, of the duration of 90 minutes, a series of short presentations will be given, in which the lead developers of various software communities will relate their projects to INSPIRE, pointing out the relevant capabilities as well as the issues deriving from the current version of the directive. The second part (30 minutes) will be dedicated to the discussion, as a round table between the developers and the members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The expected number of active participants (speakers) is 15-20. The main audience is geospatial open source developers, projects leads, users involved with INSPIRE and Members of the JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The following topics will guide through the dialog:
# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
# links between INSPIRE specs and national standards
# communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance
# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages
# how an implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive even outside EU

=== Notes on Workshop Description and Goals ===

''250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.''

* Duration 90 minutes
* Round table (to the aim of smoothing the edges of INSPIRE)
* Lead developers on one side (various technologies) and members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee on the other
* 15-20 expected participants
* 60 minutes of quick presentations (3 minutes / 1 slide each)
* 30 minutes intensive dialog on the raised issues
* Possible topics:
*# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
*# potential mismatch between INSPIRE specs and national standards
*# optimisation of communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
*# setting up a tracking system for INSPIRE implementations
*# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
*# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
*# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
*# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2012/presentations/ds5/Vanda%20Nunes%20de%20Lima.pdf]
*# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages

=== Notes on Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests ===
''technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess''

* possibly, free of charge for speakers (to be checked if feasible)
* for OSGeo projects that cannot attend we should gather a couple of slides from each positioning it in relation to INSPIRE requirements
* main audience: GFOSS developers and users + INSPIRE people: implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive; even outside EU

== The hang out has already taken place ==
so please do '''not''' add your name below, but either in the workshop or in the paper or in both lists of "authors". Thanks

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User:Heikki|Heikki Doeleman]] (not yet confirmed)
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] (interested in helping out with the workshop - cannot make the hangout)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel)
* [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel but interested to contribute text/presentation material/OSGeoLive support)
* [[User:Jachym| Jachym CEpicky]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[User:Maria| Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:Josegar| Jose Garcia]]
* [[User:Ticheler| Jeroen Ticheler]] (planning to participate in the workshop)
* [[User:MarkusSchneider2| Markus Schneider]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[Ngiuliani| Nicola Giuliani]] (interested in helping out with the workshop)

== Additional notes ==
Exploring the possibility of fee reduction / budget allocation to cover the costs of speakers... (ongoing tentative)

[[Category: Standards]] [[Category: INSPIRE]]

INSPIRE conference 2013

2013-03-15T11:33:46Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Who is participating */

Coordination of activities of OSGeo projects at INSPIRE Conference

== Links ==

* [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/ Conference page]

== Deadlines ==

* March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
* March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals

== Paper proposal ==

Generic talk about OSGeo projects and their relation to INSPIRE.

=== OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Arnulf Christl5, Simone Giannecchini, 6, Jeroen Ticheler7, Markus Schneider8, '''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], Germany
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''The abstract should not exceed two A4 pages.''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

Since the earliest beginning of INSPIRE open source developers have been involved with implementing systems which eventually have to satisfy INSPIRE requirements. Users have requested new features and capabilities to enable their software packages to address requirements resulting from the INSPIRE directive. Developers in turn and have given feeback technical feedback to the makers of the directive. As a result INSPIRE over time has evolved into an implementable real-world architecture.

Many members of the OSGeo development teams are located in Europe, and many of them are actively involved in implementing INSPIRE services and geo-portals. There has been a lot of volunteered and financial contribution to OSGeo projects to help implement the official INSPIRE specifications. With the help of many testers, users and community members, OSGeo projects are offering better INSPIRE support year after year.

This presentation is focused on the introduction of various popular OSGeo projects, which are used for particular tasks within the INSPIRE infrastructure. The presentation will reference certified OSGeo projects as well as projects from the broader OSGeo ecosystem which have not passed the incubation process yet. Each project will summarize the achievements over the last year of development with respect to INSPIRE and include a short report on future development. This will provide a comprehensive overview of features in the OSGeo community pipeline which will have direct impact on their usage for INSPIRE.

'''Keywords:''' OSGeo, Open Source, MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, deegree, Mapbender, GDAL, GeoNetwork, pycsw, OSGeoLive, NASA World Wind, Mapbender, GRASS, Quantum GIS, gvSIG CE, '''add more here'''

== Workshop proposal ==
The proposing team suggests to implement this workshop in a barcamp style within the conference. This will probably attract a more diverse group of people and allow for more dynamic communication which is one of the most important aspects requried to really get INSPIRE implemented. The aim is to get developers and project leads from OSGeo and professionals involved with INSPIRE around one table and shed light on each other's world.

From the conference website:

''Pre-conference workshops will take place on the 23/24 June. Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all conference participants at no additional cost, however a daily fee will be charged for those attending workshops only.''

=== Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Markus Schneider5 '''add your name'''4

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# Occam Labs, Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''proposal -- please improve-- ''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit international organization, created in early 2006 to the aim of supporting the collaborative development of geospatial open source software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

OSGeo is an umbrella for high quality open source geospatial applications providing the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysing and manipulating data.

In the first part (60 minutes) of the workshop, of the duration of 90 minutes, a series of short presentations will be given, in which the lead developers of various software communities will relate their projects to INSPIRE, pointing out the relevant capabilities as well as the issues deriving from the current version of the directive. The second part (30 minutes) will be dedicated to the discussion, as a round table between the developers and the members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The expected number of active participants (speakers) is 15-20. The main audience is geospatial open source developers, projects leads, users involved with INSPIRE and Members of the JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The following topics will guide through the dialog:
# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
# links between INSPIRE specs and national standards
# communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance
# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages
# how an implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive even outside EU

=== Notes on Workshop Description and Goals ===

''250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.''

* Duration 90 minutes
* Round table (to the aim of smoothing the edges of INSPIRE)
* Lead developers on one side (various technologies) and members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee on the other
* 15-20 expected participants
* 60 minutes of quick presentations (3 minutes / 1 slide each)
* 30 minutes intensive dialog on the raised issues
* Possible topics:
*# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
*# potential mismatch between INSPIRE specs and national standards
*# optimisation of communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
*# setting up a tracking system for INSPIRE implementations
*# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
*# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
*# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
*# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2012/presentations/ds5/Vanda%20Nunes%20de%20Lima.pdf]
*# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages

=== Notes on Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests ===
''technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess''

* possibly, free of charge for speakers (to be checked if feasible)
* for OSGeo projects that cannot attend we should gather a couple of slides from each positioning it in relation to INSPIRE requirements
* main audience: GFOSS developers and users + INSPIRE people: implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive; even outside EU

== Exploratory meeting ==

G+ hang out on Thursday 14 March at 4 pm CET

== Who is participating ==

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User:Heikki|Heikki Doeleman]] (not yet confirmed)
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] (interested in helping out with the workshop - cannot make the hangout)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel)
* [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel but interested to contribute text/presentation material/OSGeoLive support)
* [[User:Jachym| Jachym CEpicky]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[User:Maria| Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:Josegar| Jose Garcia]]
* [[User:Ticheler| Jeroen Ticheler]] (planning to participate in the workshop)
* [[User:MarkusSchneider2| Markus Schneider]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)

-- Please add your name here

== Additional notes ==
Exploring the possibility of fee reduction / budget allocation to cover the costs of speakers... (ongoing tentative)

[[Category: Standards]] [[Category: INSPIRE]]

INSPIRE conference 2013

2013-03-15T11:31:58Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Who is participating */

Coordination of activities of OSGeo projects at INSPIRE Conference

== Links ==

* [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/ Conference page]

== Deadlines ==

* March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
* March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals

== Paper proposal ==

Generic talk about OSGeo projects and their relation to INSPIRE.

=== OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Arnulf Christl5, Simone Giannecchini, 6, Jeroen Ticheler7, Markus Schneider8, '''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], Germany
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''The abstract should not exceed two A4 pages.''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

Since the earliest beginning of INSPIRE open source developers have been involved with implementing systems which eventually have to satisfy INSPIRE requirements. Users have requested new features and capabilities to enable their software packages to address requirements resulting from the INSPIRE directive. Developers in turn and have given feeback technical feedback to the makers of the directive. As a result INSPIRE over time has evolved into an implementable real-world architecture.

Many members of the OSGeo development teams are located in Europe, and many of them are actively involved in implementing INSPIRE services and geo-portals. There has been a lot of volunteered and financial contribution to OSGeo projects to help implement the official INSPIRE specifications. With the help of many testers, users and community members, OSGeo projects are offering better INSPIRE support year after year.

This presentation is focused on the introduction of various popular OSGeo projects, which are used for particular tasks within the INSPIRE infrastructure. The presentation will reference certified OSGeo projects as well as projects from the broader OSGeo ecosystem which have not passed the incubation process yet. Each project will summarize the achievements over the last year of development with respect to INSPIRE and include a short report on future development. This will provide a comprehensive overview of features in the OSGeo community pipeline which will have direct impact on their usage for INSPIRE.

'''Keywords:''' OSGeo, Open Source, MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, deegree, Mapbender, GDAL, GeoNetwork, pycsw, OSGeoLive, NASA World Wind, Mapbender, GRASS, Quantum GIS, gvSIG CE, '''add more here'''

== Workshop proposal ==
The proposing team suggests to implement this workshop in a barcamp style within the conference. This will probably attract a more diverse group of people and allow for more dynamic communication which is one of the most important aspects requried to really get INSPIRE implemented. The aim is to get developers and project leads from OSGeo and professionals involved with INSPIRE around one table and shed light on each other's world.

From the conference website:

''Pre-conference workshops will take place on the 23/24 June. Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all conference participants at no additional cost, however a daily fee will be charged for those attending workshops only.''

=== Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Markus Schneider5 '''add your name'''4

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# Occam Labs, Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''proposal -- please improve-- ''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit international organization, created in early 2006 to the aim of supporting the collaborative development of geospatial open source software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

OSGeo is an umbrella for high quality open source geospatial applications providing the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysing and manipulating data.

In the first part (60 minutes) of the workshop, of the duration of 90 minutes, a series of short presentations will be given, in which the lead developers of various software communities will relate their projects to INSPIRE, pointing out the relevant capabilities as well as the issues deriving from the current version of the directive. The second part (30 minutes) will be dedicated to the discussion, as a round table between the developers and the members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The expected number of active participants (speakers) is 15-20. The main audience is geospatial open source developers, projects leads, users involved with INSPIRE and Members of the JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The following topics will guide through the dialog:
# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
# links between INSPIRE specs and national standards
# communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance
# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages
# how an implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive even outside EU

=== Notes on Workshop Description and Goals ===

''250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.''

* Duration 90 minutes
* Round table (to the aim of smoothing the edges of INSPIRE)
* Lead developers on one side (various technologies) and members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee on the other
* 15-20 expected participants
* 60 minutes of quick presentations (3 minutes / 1 slide each)
* 30 minutes intensive dialog on the raised issues
* Possible topics:
*# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
*# potential mismatch between INSPIRE specs and national standards
*# optimisation of communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
*# setting up a tracking system for INSPIRE implementations
*# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
*# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
*# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
*# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2012/presentations/ds5/Vanda%20Nunes%20de%20Lima.pdf]
*# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages

=== Notes on Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests ===
''technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess''

* possibly, free of charge for speakers (to be checked if feasible)
* for OSGeo projects that cannot attend we should gather a couple of slides from each positioning it in relation to INSPIRE requirements
* main audience: GFOSS developers and users + INSPIRE people: implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive; even outside EU

== Exploratory meeting ==

G+ hang out on Thursday 14 March at 4 pm CET

== Who is participating ==

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User:Heikki|Heikki Doeleman]] (not yet confirmed)
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] (interested in helping out with the workshop - cannot make the hangout)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel)
* [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel but interested to contribute text/presentation material/OSGeoLive support)
* [[User:Jachym| Jachym CEpicky]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[User:Maria| Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:Josegar| Jose Garcia]]
* [[User:Ticheler| Jeroen Ticheler]] (planning to participate in the workshop)
* [[User:MarkusSchneider2| Markus Schneider]]

-- Please add your name here

== Additional notes ==
Exploring the possibility of fee reduction / budget allocation to cover the costs of speakers... (ongoing tentative)

[[Category: Standards]] [[Category: INSPIRE]]

INSPIRE conference 2013

2013-03-15T11:31:16Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* Workshop proposal */

Coordination of activities of OSGeo projects at INSPIRE Conference

== Links ==

* [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/ Conference page]

== Deadlines ==

* March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
* March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals

== Paper proposal ==

Generic talk about OSGeo projects and their relation to INSPIRE.

=== OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Arnulf Christl5, Simone Giannecchini, 6, Jeroen Ticheler7, Markus Schneider8, '''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], Germany
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''The abstract should not exceed two A4 pages.''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

Since the earliest beginning of INSPIRE open source developers have been involved with implementing systems which eventually have to satisfy INSPIRE requirements. Users have requested new features and capabilities to enable their software packages to address requirements resulting from the INSPIRE directive. Developers in turn and have given feeback technical feedback to the makers of the directive. As a result INSPIRE over time has evolved into an implementable real-world architecture.

Many members of the OSGeo development teams are located in Europe, and many of them are actively involved in implementing INSPIRE services and geo-portals. There has been a lot of volunteered and financial contribution to OSGeo projects to help implement the official INSPIRE specifications. With the help of many testers, users and community members, OSGeo projects are offering better INSPIRE support year after year.

This presentation is focused on the introduction of various popular OSGeo projects, which are used for particular tasks within the INSPIRE infrastructure. The presentation will reference certified OSGeo projects as well as projects from the broader OSGeo ecosystem which have not passed the incubation process yet. Each project will summarize the achievements over the last year of development with respect to INSPIRE and include a short report on future development. This will provide a comprehensive overview of features in the OSGeo community pipeline which will have direct impact on their usage for INSPIRE.

'''Keywords:''' OSGeo, Open Source, MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, deegree, Mapbender, GDAL, GeoNetwork, pycsw, OSGeoLive, NASA World Wind, Mapbender, GRASS, Quantum GIS, gvSIG CE, '''add more here'''

== Workshop proposal ==
The proposing team suggests to implement this workshop in a barcamp style within the conference. This will probably attract a more diverse group of people and allow for more dynamic communication which is one of the most important aspects requried to really get INSPIRE implemented. The aim is to get developers and project leads from OSGeo and professionals involved with INSPIRE around one table and shed light on each other's world.

From the conference website:

''Pre-conference workshops will take place on the 23/24 June. Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all conference participants at no additional cost, however a daily fee will be charged for those attending workshops only.''

=== Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Markus Schneider5 '''add your name'''4

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# Occam Labs, Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''proposal -- please improve-- ''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit international organization, created in early 2006 to the aim of supporting the collaborative development of geospatial open source software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

OSGeo is an umbrella for high quality open source geospatial applications providing the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysing and manipulating data.

In the first part (60 minutes) of the workshop, of the duration of 90 minutes, a series of short presentations will be given, in which the lead developers of various software communities will relate their projects to INSPIRE, pointing out the relevant capabilities as well as the issues deriving from the current version of the directive. The second part (30 minutes) will be dedicated to the discussion, as a round table between the developers and the members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The expected number of active participants (speakers) is 15-20. The main audience is geospatial open source developers, projects leads, users involved with INSPIRE and Members of the JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The following topics will guide through the dialog:
# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
# links between INSPIRE specs and national standards
# communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance
# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages
# how an implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive even outside EU

=== Notes on Workshop Description and Goals ===

''250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.''

* Duration 90 minutes
* Round table (to the aim of smoothing the edges of INSPIRE)
* Lead developers on one side (various technologies) and members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee on the other
* 15-20 expected participants
* 60 minutes of quick presentations (3 minutes / 1 slide each)
* 30 minutes intensive dialog on the raised issues
* Possible topics:
*# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
*# potential mismatch between INSPIRE specs and national standards
*# optimisation of communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
*# setting up a tracking system for INSPIRE implementations
*# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
*# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
*# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
*# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2012/presentations/ds5/Vanda%20Nunes%20de%20Lima.pdf]
*# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages

=== Notes on Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests ===
''technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess''

* possibly, free of charge for speakers (to be checked if feasible)
* for OSGeo projects that cannot attend we should gather a couple of slides from each positioning it in relation to INSPIRE requirements
* main audience: GFOSS developers and users + INSPIRE people: implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive; even outside EU

== Exploratory meeting ==

G+ hang out on Thursday 14 March at 4 pm CET

== Who is participating ==

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User:Heikki|Heikki Doeleman]] (not yet confirmed)
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] (interested in helping out with the workshop - cannot make the hangout)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel)
* [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel but interested to contribute text/presentation material/OSGeoLive support)
* [[User:Jachym| Jachym CEpicky]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[User:Maria| Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:Josegar| Jose Garcia]]
* [[User:Ticheler| Jeroen Ticheler]] (planning to participate in the workshop)

-- Please add your name here

== Additional notes ==
Exploring the possibility of fee reduction / budget allocation to cover the costs of speakers... (ongoing tentative)

[[Category: Standards]] [[Category: INSPIRE]]

INSPIRE conference 2013

2013-03-15T11:30:18Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE */

Coordination of activities of OSGeo projects at INSPIRE Conference

== Links ==

* [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/ Conference page]

== Deadlines ==

* March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
* March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals

== Paper proposal ==

Generic talk about OSGeo projects and their relation to INSPIRE.

=== OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Arnulf Christl5, Simone Giannecchini, 6, Jeroen Ticheler7, Markus Schneider8, '''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], Germany
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''The abstract should not exceed two A4 pages.''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

Since the earliest beginning of INSPIRE open source developers have been involved with implementing systems which eventually have to satisfy INSPIRE requirements. Users have requested new features and capabilities to enable their software packages to address requirements resulting from the INSPIRE directive. Developers in turn and have given feeback technical feedback to the makers of the directive. As a result INSPIRE over time has evolved into an implementable real-world architecture.

Many members of the OSGeo development teams are located in Europe, and many of them are actively involved in implementing INSPIRE services and geo-portals. There has been a lot of volunteered and financial contribution to OSGeo projects to help implement the official INSPIRE specifications. With the help of many testers, users and community members, OSGeo projects are offering better INSPIRE support year after year.

This presentation is focused on the introduction of various popular OSGeo projects, which are used for particular tasks within the INSPIRE infrastructure. The presentation will reference certified OSGeo projects as well as projects from the broader OSGeo ecosystem which have not passed the incubation process yet. Each project will summarize the achievements over the last year of development with respect to INSPIRE and include a short report on future development. This will provide a comprehensive overview of features in the OSGeo community pipeline which will have direct impact on their usage for INSPIRE.

'''Keywords:''' OSGeo, Open Source, MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, deegree, Mapbender, GDAL, GeoNetwork, pycsw, OSGeoLive, NASA World Wind, Mapbender, GRASS, Quantum GIS, gvSIG CE, '''add more here'''

== Workshop proposal ==
The proposing team suggests to implement this workshop in a barcamp style within the conference. This will probably attract a more diverse group of people and allow for more dynamic communication which is one of the most important aspects requried to really get INSPIRE implemented. The aim is to get developers and project leads from OSGeo and professionals involved with INSPIRE around one table and shed light on each other's world.

From the conference website:

''Pre-conference workshops will take place on the 23/24 June. Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all conference participants at no additional cost, however a daily fee will be charged for those attending workshops only.''

=== Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4 '''add your name'''4

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''proposal -- please improve-- ''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit international organization, created in early 2006 to the aim of supporting the collaborative development of geospatial open source software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

OSGeo is an umbrella for high quality open source geospatial applications providing the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysing and manipulating data.

In the first part (60 minutes) of the workshop, of the duration of 90 minutes, a series of short presentations will be given, in which the lead developers of various software communities will relate their projects to INSPIRE, pointing out the relevant capabilities as well as the issues deriving from the current version of the directive. The second part (30 minutes) will be dedicated to the discussion, as a round table between the developers and the members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The expected number of active participants (speakers) is 15-20. The main audience is geospatial open source developers, projects leads, users involved with INSPIRE and Members of the JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The following topics will guide through the dialog:
# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
# links between INSPIRE specs and national standards
# communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance
# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages
# how an implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive even outside EU

=== Notes on Workshop Description and Goals ===

''250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.''

* Duration 90 minutes
* Round table (to the aim of smoothing the edges of INSPIRE)
* Lead developers on one side (various technologies) and members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee on the other
* 15-20 expected participants
* 60 minutes of quick presentations (3 minutes / 1 slide each)
* 30 minutes intensive dialog on the raised issues
* Possible topics:
*# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
*# potential mismatch between INSPIRE specs and national standards
*# optimisation of communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
*# setting up a tracking system for INSPIRE implementations
*# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
*# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
*# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
*# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2012/presentations/ds5/Vanda%20Nunes%20de%20Lima.pdf]
*# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages

=== Notes on Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests ===
''technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess''

* possibly, free of charge for speakers (to be checked if feasible)
* for OSGeo projects that cannot attend we should gather a couple of slides from each positioning it in relation to INSPIRE requirements
* main audience: GFOSS developers and users + INSPIRE people: implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive; even outside EU

== Exploratory meeting ==

G+ hang out on Thursday 14 March at 4 pm CET

== Who is participating ==

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User:Heikki|Heikki Doeleman]] (not yet confirmed)
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] (interested in helping out with the workshop - cannot make the hangout)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel)
* [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel but interested to contribute text/presentation material/OSGeoLive support)
* [[User:Jachym| Jachym CEpicky]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[User:Maria| Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:Josegar| Jose Garcia]]

-- Please add your name here

== Additional notes ==
Exploring the possibility of fee reduction / budget allocation to cover the costs of speakers... (ongoing tentative)

[[Category: Standards]] [[Category: INSPIRE]]

INSPIRE conference 2013

2013-03-15T11:29:52Z

Wiki-MarkusSchneider2: /* OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE */

Coordination of activities of OSGeo projects at INSPIRE Conference

== Links ==

* [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013/ Conference page]

== Deadlines ==

* March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
* March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals

== Paper proposal ==

Generic talk about OSGeo projects and their relation to INSPIRE.

=== OSGeo projects and their efforts towards INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4, Arnulf Christl5, Simone Giannecchini, 6, Jeroen Ticheler7, Markus Schneider8 '''add your name'''n

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], Germany
# GeoSolutions, Italy
# [http://geocat.net GeoCat], The Netherlands
# [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs], Bonn, Germany
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''The abstract should not exceed two A4 pages.''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, data and education. The foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

Since the earliest beginning of INSPIRE open source developers have been involved with implementing systems which eventually have to satisfy INSPIRE requirements. Users have requested new features and capabilities to enable their software packages to address requirements resulting from the INSPIRE directive. Developers in turn and have given feeback technical feedback to the makers of the directive. As a result INSPIRE over time has evolved into an implementable real-world architecture.

Many members of the OSGeo development teams are located in Europe, and many of them are actively involved in implementing INSPIRE services and geo-portals. There has been a lot of volunteered and financial contribution to OSGeo projects to help implement the official INSPIRE specifications. With the help of many testers, users and community members, OSGeo projects are offering better INSPIRE support year after year.

This presentation is focused on the introduction of various popular OSGeo projects, which are used for particular tasks within the INSPIRE infrastructure. The presentation will reference certified OSGeo projects as well as projects from the broader OSGeo ecosystem which have not passed the incubation process yet. Each project will summarize the achievements over the last year of development with respect to INSPIRE and include a short report on future development. This will provide a comprehensive overview of features in the OSGeo community pipeline which will have direct impact on their usage for INSPIRE.

'''Keywords:''' OSGeo, Open Source, MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, deegree, Mapbender, GDAL, GeoNetwork, pycsw, OSGeoLive, NASA World Wind, Mapbender, GRASS, Quantum GIS, gvSIG CE, '''add more here'''

== Workshop proposal ==
The proposing team suggests to implement this workshop in a barcamp style within the conference. This will probably attract a more diverse group of people and allow for more dynamic communication which is one of the most important aspects requried to really get INSPIRE implemented. The aim is to get developers and project leads from OSGeo and professionals involved with INSPIRE around one table and shed light on each other's world.

From the conference website:

''Pre-conference workshops will take place on the 23/24 June. Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all conference participants at no additional cost, however a daily fee will be charged for those attending workshops only.''

=== Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE ===

Jachym Cepicky1, Maria A. Brovelli 2, Margherita Di Leo 3, Angelos Tzotsos 4 '''add your name'''4

# OSGeo Board of directors, Help Service - Remote Sensing, Benesov, Czech Republic,
# Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como, Italy
# Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra (VA), Italy
# Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
# '''add your affiliation, City, Country'''

''proposal -- please improve-- ''

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit international organization, created in early 2006 to the aim of supporting the collaborative development of geospatial open source software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

OSGeo is an umbrella for high quality open source geospatial applications providing the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysing and manipulating data.

In the first part (60 minutes) of the workshop, of the duration of 90 minutes, a series of short presentations will be given, in which the lead developers of various software communities will relate their projects to INSPIRE, pointing out the relevant capabilities as well as the issues deriving from the current version of the directive. The second part (30 minutes) will be dedicated to the discussion, as a round table between the developers and the members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The expected number of active participants (speakers) is 15-20. The main audience is geospatial open source developers, projects leads, users involved with INSPIRE and Members of the JRC INSPIRE Technical Committee.

The following topics will guide through the dialog:
# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
# links between INSPIRE specs and national standards
# communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance
# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages
# how an implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive even outside EU

=== Notes on Workshop Description and Goals ===

''250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.''

* Duration 90 minutes
* Round table (to the aim of smoothing the edges of INSPIRE)
* Lead developers on one side (various technologies) and members of the INSPIRE Technical Committee on the other
* 15-20 expected participants
* 60 minutes of quick presentations (3 minutes / 1 slide each)
* 30 minutes intensive dialog on the raised issues
* Possible topics:
*# complexity of INSPIRE technical guidance and OGC standards
*# potential mismatch between INSPIRE specs and national standards
*# optimisation of communication channels between OSGeo and INSPIRE
*# setting up a tracking system for INSPIRE implementations
*# setting up wiki pages (multilingual) to make INSPIRE documentation more readable
*# how to test and validate INSPIRE compliancy
*# how to change/simplify INSPIRE technical guidance in practice
*# how to contribute to INSPIRE Maintenance [http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2012/presentations/ds5/Vanda%20Nunes%20de%20Lima.pdf]
*# automation of INSPIRE adoption through support in the various software packages

=== Notes on Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests ===
''technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess''

* possibly, free of charge for speakers (to be checked if feasible)
* for OSGeo projects that cannot attend we should gather a couple of slides from each positioning it in relation to INSPIRE requirements
* main audience: GFOSS developers and users + INSPIRE people: implicit support for INSPIRE in any kind of software will give a big boost to the adoption of the directive; even outside EU

== Exploratory meeting ==

G+ hang out on Thursday 14 March at 4 pm CET

== Who is participating ==

* [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User:Heikki|Heikki Doeleman]] (not yet confirmed)
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]] (interested in helping out with the workshop - cannot make the hangout)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel)
* [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (planning to join hangout - currently not planning to travel but interested to contribute text/presentation material/OSGeoLive support)
* [[User:Jachym| Jachym CEpicky]] (planning to join hangout - interested in helping out with the workshop)
* [[User:Maria| Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:Josegar| Jose Garcia]]

-- Please add your name here

== Additional notes ==
Exploring the possibility of fee reduction / budget allocation to cover the costs of speakers... (ongoing tentative)

[[Category: Standards]] [[Category: INSPIRE]]