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OSGeo Community Sprint 2019

2019-05-14T17:44:19Z

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Annual Community Sprint comes to Minnesota in 2019!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2019#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Venue Sponsor</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Umn_logo.png|131px|University of Minnesota|link=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/]]
 
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

|}

; <big>Gold Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10

||
[[File:GC-Group logo.png|220px|GeoCue|link=http://www.geocue.com/]]
 
http://www.geocue.com/

||
[[File:safe-software-logo.png|220px|Safe Software|link=https://www.safe.com/]]
 
https://www.safe.com/
||
[[File:RIEGL.png|310px|RIEGL|link=http://www.riegl.com/]]
 
http://www.riegl.com/
|}

; <big>Silver Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Hobulogo.png|160px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/
||
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|160px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
||
[[Image:Logo-TYDAC.png|160px|Tydac|link=http://www.tydac.ch/]]
 
[http://www.tydac.ch/ http://www.tydac.ch/]
||
[[File:Crunchydata.png|160px|CrunchyData||link=http://www.crunchydata.com/]]
 
[http://www.crunchydata.com/ http://www.crunchydata.com/]
|}

; <big>Bronze Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:CoordinateSolutions_TRANS.png|210px|link=http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]]
 
[http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/ http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]
||
[[File:sharedgeo_logo.png|170px|link=https://www.sharedgeo.org/]]
 
[https://www.sharedgeo.org/ https://www.sharedgeo.org/]
||
[[File:Greenwood_logo.png|210px|link=https://greenwoodmap.com/]]
 
[https://greenwoodmap.com/ https://greenwoodmap.com/]
|}
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Azavea-logo.png|190px|link=https://www.azavea.com/]]
 
[https://www.azavea.com/ https://www.azavea.com/]
||
[[File:Bh-logo.jpg|320px|link=https://www.bhinc.com/]]
 
[https://www.bhinc.com/ https://www.bhinc.com/]
||
[[File:Logo-extensis.png|190px|link=https://www.extensis.com/]]
 
[https://www.extensis.com/ https://www.extensis.com/]
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: May 14-17 (4 days)
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

== Other Events from January to May 2019 ==

* ''OSGeo's 13th birthday Feb 4''
* ''[http://2019.foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G-NA 2019], April 16-19 in San Diego, CA''
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

=== Coding Venue ===
* Wilson Research Collaboration Studio: https://www.lib.umn.edu/wilsonstudio
* Wilson Library, West Bank
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.97095/-93.24392| OpenStreetMap]

=== Parking ===
* We recommend the 21st Avenue ramp: https://campusmaps.umn.edu/twenty-first-avenue-ramp

=== Accommodations ===
Several hotels are within walking distance of the venue. Here are a few options:
{|border=1
|-
| '''Hotel Name''' || '''Price Range (USD)''' || '''Distance''' || '''Notes'''
|-
| [https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspdc-courtyard-minneapolis-downtown/?scid=bb1a189a-fec3-4d19-a255-54ba596febe2 Courtyard by Marriott Minneapolis] || 175$+ || .5 mile || Walking distance to Wilson Library, University Campus
|-
| [https://www.graduatehotels.com/minneapolis/ Graduate Minneapolis] || 185$+ || 1.9 miles || On University Campus and Light Rail transportation
|-
| [https://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/minnesota/hampton-inn-and-suites-minneapolis-university-area-MSPUAHX/index.html Hampton Inn & Suites Minneapolis] || 152$+ || 2.2 miles || On Light Rail transportation
|}

=== How to get there ===

'''Flights''' - [https://www.mspairport.com/flights-and-airlines Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)]

Sixteen commercial passenger airlines service the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP); 11 are located at Terminal 1 - Lindbergh and 5 are located at the Terminal 2 - Humphrey.

'''Light Rail Transit''' - [https://www.mspairport.com/directions/ground-transportation/light-rail-transit Light rail transit (LRT)] trains stop at both Terminal 1-Lindbergh and Terminal 2-Humphrey and connect travelers to 17 other destinations, including downtown Minneapolis to the north and Mall of America to the south.

[https://www.metrotransit.org/blue-line-map Metro Transit Map of LRT Stations] shows the light rail stops; take the Blue Line to the Cedar-Riverside stop for the Wilson Library, University of Minnesota venue.

== Schedule ==
* breakfast each day around 8:30am
* lunch every day around 12:00pm

== Social Events ==
* Monday (5/13) - Welcome Gathering at [http://www.townhallbrewery.com/ Town Hall Brewery] (7pm)
* Tuesday (5/14) - Pizza at [http://surlybrewing.com/ Surly Brewing] (5:30pm)
* Wednesday (5/15) - Free Portrait Photos (10:00am - 3:00pm) by [https://www.billadams.photo/ Bill Adams Photography]
* Wednesday (5/15) - Food, beverages and lawn bowling at [https://britspub.com/ Brits Pub] (5:30pm, lawn bowling from 7-9pm)
* Thursday (5/16) - Appetizers and beverages with MN GIS/LIS at [http://republicmn.com/ Republic] (5:30pm)

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''MapServer''':
** MapServer 8.0 Roadmap
** new Proj.4 API support
* '''GRASS GIS''':
** re-working PDAL connection
** improving OpenDroneMap/WebODM connection
** finalizing Python 3 support
** Git and GitHub best practices
* '''pycsw'''
** final bug fixes for 2.4 release
* '''GeoHealthCheck'''
** bug fixes (default WMS 1.3.0 support, add WFS 3.0 support, Python 3)
* '''pygeoapi'''
** [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/projects/1 Plans detailed on this page]
* '''pygeometa'''
** bug fixes, release
* '''PDAL''':
** PDAL 2.0 Roadmap
** TileDB streaming support
** ML library discussion
** PCL dependency removal
** PROJ 6 / GDAL 3 migration
* '''ImageN'''
** Initial open source baseline
** Incorporate JAI-EXT operations
* '''PostGIS'''
** [https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/PostGIS3 Plans detailed on this page]
* '''OpenDroneMap'''
* add your project

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Sun
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="25"|Sat
!width="25"|Sun
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
|-
| 1 ||[[Steve Lime]] || US || steve.lime@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || MapServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Certain ||
|-
| 2||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PROJ, GDAL, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 3||[[Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entinwe, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 4||[[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] || US || jklassen@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GDAL, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 5||[[User:blammo|Bob Basques]] || US || bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us || City of Saint Paul || MapServer, GeoMoose || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 6||[[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] || CA || pramsey@cleverelephant.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 7||[[User:theduckylittle|Dan "Ducky" Little]] || US || theduckylittle@gmail.com || || MapServer, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No pref
|-
| 8||[[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] || CA || dmorissette@mapgears.com || Mapgears || MapServer, GDAL/OGR || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 9 ||[[Kari Geurts]] || US || kari.geurts@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Certain ||
|-
| 10 ||[[Even Rouault]] || France || even.rouault at spatialys.com || Spatialys || GDAL/OGR, PROJ, Mapserver || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 11 ||[[Piero Toffanin]] || US || pt at masseranolabs.com || MasseranoLabs || OpenDroneMap || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 12 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl@eox.at || EOX || MapServer, EOxServer || || x || x || x || x || || || || 50% ||
|-
| 13 ||[[User:normanb|Norman Barker]] || US || norman@tiledb.io || TileDB || GDAL || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 14 ||[[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] || US || kmckelvey@extensis.com || Extensis (was LizardTech) || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 15 ||Martin Davis || CA || martin.davis@crunchydata.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 16 ||Jody Garnett || CA || jody.garnett@gmail.com || OSGeo || ImageN, JAI-EXT, GeoTools, GeoServer || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 17 ||Andrew Bell || US || andrew@hobu.co || Hobu || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 18 ||[[User:greenwood|Rich Greenwood]] || US || rich@greenwoodmap.com || Greenwood Mapping, Inc. || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain || veg
|- sto
| 19 ||[[Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com || US Army Corps || PDAL,Proj,GDAL,MapServer || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Remote ||
|-
| 20 ||[[User:Jhughes|Jim Hughes]] || US || jhughes@ccri.com || CCRi || GeoMesa, JTS, GeoTools, GeoServer || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 21 ||[[Tom Kralidis]] || CA|| tomkralidis at gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 22 ||[[David Bitner]] || US|| bitner@dbspatial.com || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap, Serverless Geospatial Projects || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 23 ||[[Nathan Casler]] || US|| ncasler@solspec.solutions || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 24 ||[[Dan Baston]] || US|| dbaston@gmail.com || ISciences LLC || GEOS et al || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 25 ||[[Jérôme Boué]] || FR|| jbo-ads at laposte.net || Airbus / Akka || MapServer, MapCache || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 26 ||[[Dominik Nussbaumer ]] || AT || dnussbaumer@riegl.com || RIEGL || PDAL, PROJ, GDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 27 || [[User:jjesus|Jorge de Jesus ]] || NL || jorge.dejesus@geocat.net || GeoCat B.V || Geohealthcheck, pygeapi || || || || x || x || || || || Remotely ||
|-
| 28 || Paul van Genuchten || NL || paul.vangenuchten@geocat.net || GeoCat B.V || Geonetwork, Geohealthcheck, pygeoapi || || || || x || x || || || || Remotely ||
|-
| 29 || Stephen Mather || US || mather.stephen@gmail.com || Cleveland Metroparks || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, PostGIS || ||x ||x || x || || || || || Very Very Likely || Many
|-
| 30 || India Johnson || US || itj3@case.edu || Cleveland Metroparks || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, PostGIS || ||x ||x || x || || || || || Very Very Likely ||
|-
| 31||[[Mateusz Loskot]] || PL/UK || mateusz@loskot.net || Cadcorp, UK || GDAL, GEOS, PDAL, PostGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain || veg pref
|-
| 32|| [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav (Vashek) Petras]]|| US/CZ || wenzeslaus@gmail.com || NC State University || GRASS GIS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 33|| [[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]] || US/CZ || kratochanna@gmail.com || NC State University || GRASS GIS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 34|| [[User:Jmcclain|James McClain]] || US || jmcclain@azavea.com || Azavea || GDAL, PDAL || || || x || x || x || || || || 95% ||
|-
| 35|| [[User:Pomadchin|Grigory Pomadchin]] || US/RU || gpomadchin@azavea.com || Azavea || PDAL, PROJ, GDAL || || || x || x || x || || || || 95% ||
|-
| 36|| [[User:Plimkilde|Peter Limkilde Svendsen]] || DK || pelis åt sdfe dot dk || [https://sdfe.dk SDFE] || PDAL, GDAL/OGR, Laspy || || || x || x || x || x || (x) || || Certain ||
|-
| 37 ||[[Will Breitkreutz]] || US || will.l.breitkreutz@gmail.com || US Army Corps || GDAL, OpenDroneMap || || || x || x || x || x || || || 99% ||
|-
| 38|| [[User:Chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || brad.chambers@gmail.com || Maxar || PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 39|| [[User:Komzpa|Darafei Praliaskouski]] || BY || komzpa@gmail.com || Kontur.io || PostGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Here || no celery dill parsley
|-
| 40|| [[Nicole Helgeson]] || US || nicole.helgeson@ci.stpaul.mn.us || City of Saint Paul || GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 41|| [[User:Jakebobu|Jake W]] || US || jbobula@solspec.io || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 42|| [[User:Pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] || US || pnaciona@gmail.com || self || MapServer || || || || x || || || || || Certain ||
|-

|}

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B_plug.jpg]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 14-17, 2019.

We expect about 50 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis and will be hosted by [https://research.umn.edu/units/uspatial, U-Spatial] and organized by [https://www.sharedgeo.org/, SharedGeo] and members of the local OSGeo user group (TCMUG).

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tosprint@lists.osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* SharedGeo
* U-Spatial
* [[User:Sdlime|Steve Lime]]
* [[User:Kaguerts|Kari Geurts]]

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2019

2019-05-14T17:19:33Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Participants */

Annual Community Sprint comes to Minnesota in 2019!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2019#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Venue Sponsor</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Umn_logo.png|131px|University of Minnesota|link=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/]]
 
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

|}

; <big>Gold Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10

||
[[File:GC-Group logo.png|220px|GeoCue|link=http://www.geocue.com/]]
 
http://www.geocue.com/

||
[[File:safe-software-logo.png|220px|Safe Software|link=https://www.safe.com/]]
 
https://www.safe.com/
||
[[File:RIEGL.png|310px|RIEGL|link=http://www.riegl.com/]]
 
http://www.riegl.com/
|}

; <big>Silver Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Hobulogo.png|160px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/
||
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|160px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
||
[[Image:Logo-TYDAC.png|160px|Tydac|link=http://www.tydac.ch/]]
 
[http://www.tydac.ch/ http://www.tydac.ch/]
||
[[File:Crunchydata.png|160px|CrunchyData||link=http://www.crunchydata.com/]]
 
[http://www.crunchydata.com/ http://www.crunchydata.com/]
|}

; <big>Bronze Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:CoordinateSolutions_TRANS.png|210px|link=http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]]
 
[http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/ http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]
||
[[File:sharedgeo_logo.png|170px|link=https://www.sharedgeo.org/]]
 
[https://www.sharedgeo.org/ https://www.sharedgeo.org/]
||
[[File:Greenwood_logo.png|210px|link=https://greenwoodmap.com/]]
 
[https://greenwoodmap.com/ https://greenwoodmap.com/]
|}
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Azavea-logo.png|190px|link=https://www.azavea.com/]]
 
[https://www.azavea.com/ https://www.azavea.com/]
||
[[File:Bh-logo.jpg|320px|link=https://www.bhinc.com/]]
 
[https://www.bhinc.com/ https://www.bhinc.com/]
||
[[File:Logo-extensis.png|190px|link=https://www.extensis.com/]]
 
[https://www.extensis.com/ https://www.extensis.com/]
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: May 14-17 (4 days)
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

== Other Events from January to May 2019 ==

* ''OSGeo's 13th birthday Feb 4''
* ''[http://2019.foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G-NA 2019], April 16-19 in San Diego, CA''
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

=== Coding Venue ===
* Wilson Research Collaboration Studio: https://www.lib.umn.edu/wilsonstudio
* Wilson Library, West Bank
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.97095/-93.24392| OpenStreetMap]

=== Parking ===
* We recommend the 21st Avenue ramp: https://campusmaps.umn.edu/twenty-first-avenue-ramp

=== Accommodations ===
Several hotels are within walking distance of the venue. Here are a few options:
{|border=1
|-
| '''Hotel Name''' || '''Price Range (USD)''' || '''Distance''' || '''Notes'''
|-
| [https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspdc-courtyard-minneapolis-downtown/?scid=bb1a189a-fec3-4d19-a255-54ba596febe2 Courtyard by Marriott Minneapolis] || 175$+ || .5 mile || Walking distance to Wilson Library, University Campus
|-
| [https://www.graduatehotels.com/minneapolis/ Graduate Minneapolis] || 185$+ || 1.9 miles || On University Campus and Light Rail transportation
|-
| [https://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/minnesota/hampton-inn-and-suites-minneapolis-university-area-MSPUAHX/index.html Hampton Inn & Suites Minneapolis] || 152$+ || 2.2 miles || On Light Rail transportation
|}

=== How to get there ===

'''Flights''' - [https://www.mspairport.com/flights-and-airlines Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)]

Sixteen commercial passenger airlines service the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP); 11 are located at Terminal 1 - Lindbergh and 5 are located at the Terminal 2 - Humphrey.

'''Light Rail Transit''' - [https://www.mspairport.com/directions/ground-transportation/light-rail-transit Light rail transit (LRT)] trains stop at both Terminal 1-Lindbergh and Terminal 2-Humphrey and connect travelers to 17 other destinations, including downtown Minneapolis to the north and Mall of America to the south.

[https://www.metrotransit.org/blue-line-map Metro Transit Map of LRT Stations] shows the light rail stops; take the Blue Line to the Cedar-Riverside stop for the Wilson Library, University of Minnesota venue.

== Schedule ==
* breakfast each day around 8:30am
* lunch every day around 12:00pm

== Social Events ==
* Monday (5/13) - Welcome Gathering at [http://www.townhallbrewery.com/ Town Hall Brewery] (7pm)
* Tuesday (5/14) - Pizza at [http://surlybrewing.com/ Surly Brewing] (5:30pm)
* Wednesday (5/15) - Free Portrait Photos (10:00am - 3:00pm) by [https://www.billadams.photo/ Bill Adams Photography]
* Wednesday (5/15) - Food, beverages and lawn bowling at [https://britspub.com/ Brits Pub] (5:30pm, lawn bowling from 7-9pm)
* Thursday (5/16) - Appetizers and beverages with MN GIS/LIS at [http://republicmn.com/ Republic] (5:30pm)

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''MapServer''':
** MapServer 8.0 Roadmap
** new Proj.4 API support
* '''GRASS GIS''':
** re-working PDAL connection
** improving OpenDroneMap/WebODM connection
** finalizing Python 3 support
** Git and GitHub best practices
* '''pycsw'''
** final bug fixes for 2.4 release
* '''GeoHealthCheck'''
** bug fixes (default WMS 1.3.0 support, add WFS 3.0 support, Python 3)
* '''pygeoapi'''
** [https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/projects/1 Plans detailed on this page]
* '''pygeometa'''
** bug fixes, release
* '''PDAL''':
** PDAL 2.0 Roadmap
** TileDB streaming support
** ML library discussion
** PCL dependency removal
** PROJ 6 / GDAL 3 migration
* '''ImageN'''
** Initial open source baseline
** Incorporate JAI-EXT operations
* '''PostGIS'''
** [https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/PostGIS3 Plans detailed on this page]
* '''OpenDroneMap'''
* add your project

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Sun
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="25"|Sat
!width="25"|Sun
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
|-
| 1 ||[[Steve Lime]] || US || steve.lime@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || MapServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Certain ||
|-
| 2||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PROJ, GDAL, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 3||[[Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entinwe, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 4||[[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] || US || jklassen@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GDAL, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 5||[[User:blammo|Bob Basques]] || US || bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us || City of Saint Paul || MapServer, GeoMoose || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 6||[[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] || CA || pramsey@cleverelephant.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 7||[[User:theduckylittle|Dan "Ducky" Little]] || US || theduckylittle@gmail.com || || MapServer, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No pref
|-
| 8||[[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] || CA || dmorissette@mapgears.com || Mapgears || MapServer, GDAL/OGR || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 9 ||[[Kari Geurts]] || US || kari.geurts@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Certain ||
|-
| 10 ||[[Even Rouault]] || France || even.rouault at spatialys.com || Spatialys || GDAL/OGR, PROJ, Mapserver || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 11 ||[[Piero Toffanin]] || US || pt at masseranolabs.com || MasseranoLabs || OpenDroneMap || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 12 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl@eox.at || EOX || MapServer, EOxServer || || x || x || x || x || || || || 50% ||
|-
| 13 ||[[User:normanb|Norman Barker]] || US || norman@tiledb.io || TileDB || GDAL || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 14 ||[[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] || US || kmckelvey@extensis.com || Extensis (was LizardTech) || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 15 ||Martin Davis || CA || martin.davis@crunchydata.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 16 ||Jody Garnett || CA || jody.garnett@gmail.com || OSGeo || ImageN, JAI-EXT, GeoTools, GeoServer || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 17 ||Andrew Bell || US || andrew@hobu.co || Hobu || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 18 ||[[User:greenwood|Rich Greenwood]] || US || rich@greenwoodmap.com || Greenwood Mapping, Inc. || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain || veg
|- sto
| 19 ||[[Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com || US Army Corps || PDAL,Proj,GDAL,MapServer || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Remote ||
|-
| 20 ||[[User:Jhughes|Jim Hughes]] || US || jhughes@ccri.com || CCRi || GeoMesa, JTS, GeoTools, GeoServer || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 21 ||[[Tom Kralidis]] || CA|| tomkralidis at gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 22 ||[[David Bitner]] || US|| bitner@dbspatial.com || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap, Serverless Geospatial Projects || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 23 ||[[Nathan Casler]] || US|| ncasler@solspec.solutions || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 24 ||[[Dan Baston]] || US|| dbaston@gmail.com || ISciences LLC || GEOS et al || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 25 ||[[Jérôme Boué]] || FR|| jbo-ads at laposte.net || Airbus / Akka || MapServer, MapCache || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 26 ||[[Dominik Nussbaumer ]] || AT || dnussbaumer@riegl.com || RIEGL || PDAL, PROJ, GDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 27 || [[User:jjesus|Jorge de Jesus ]] || NL || jorge.dejesus@geocat.net || GeoCat B.V || Geohealthcheck, pygeapi || || || || x || x || || || || Remotely ||
|-
| 28 || Paul van Genuchten || NL || paul.vangenuchten@geocat.net || GeoCat B.V || Geonetwork, Geohealthcheck, pygeoapi || || || || x || x || || || || Remotely ||
|-
| 29 || Stephen Mather || US || mather.stephen@gmail.com || Cleveland Metroparks || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, PostGIS || ||x ||x || x || || || || || Very Very Likely || Many
|-
| 30 || India Johnson || US || itj3@case.edu || Cleveland Metroparks || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, PostGIS || ||x ||x || x || || || || || Very Very Likely ||
|-
| 31||[[Mateusz Loskot]] || PL/UK || mateusz@loskot.net || Cadcorp, UK || GDAL, GEOS, PDAL, PostGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain || veg pref
|-
| 32|| [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav (Vashek) Petras]]|| US/CZ || wenzeslaus@gmail.com || NC State University || GRASS GIS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 33|| [[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]] || US/CZ || kratochanna@gmail.com || NC State University || GRASS GIS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 34|| [[User:Jmcclain|James McClain]] || US || jmcclain@azavea.com || Azavea || GDAL, PDAL || || || x || x || x || || || || 95% ||
|-
| 35|| [[User:Pomadchin|Grigory Pomadchin]] || US/RU || gpomadchin@azavea.com || Azavea || PDAL, PROJ, GDAL || || || x || x || x || || || || 95% ||
|-
| 36|| [[User:Plimkilde|Peter Limkilde Svendsen]] || DK || pelis åt sdfe dot dk || [https://sdfe.dk SDFE] || PDAL, GDAL/OGR, Laspy || || || x || x || x || x || (x) || || Certain ||
|-
| 37 ||[[Will Breitkreutz]] || US || will.l.breitkreutz@gmail.com || US Army Corps || GDAL, OpenDroneMap || || || x || x || x || x || || || 99% ||
|-
| 38|| [[User:Chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || brad.chambers@gmail.com || Maxar || PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 39|| [[User:Komzpa|Darafei Praliaskouski]] || BY || komzpa@gmail.com || Kontur.io || PostGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Here || no celery dill parsley
|-
| 40|| [[Nicole Helgeson]] || US || nicole.helgeson@ci.stpaul.mn.us || City of Saint Paul || GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 41|| [[User:Jakebobu|Jake W]] || US || jbobula@solspec.io || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 42|| [[User:Pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] || US || pnaciona@gmail.com || Independent || MapServer || || || || x || || || || || Certain ||
|-

|}

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B_plug.jpg]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 14-17, 2019.

We expect about 50 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis and will be hosted by [https://research.umn.edu/units/uspatial, U-Spatial] and organized by [https://www.sharedgeo.org/, SharedGeo] and members of the local OSGeo user group (TCMUG).

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tosprint@lists.osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* SharedGeo
* U-Spatial
* [[User:Sdlime|Steve Lime]]
* [[User:Kaguerts|Kari Geurts]]

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

UnitedNations Committee

2015-11-04T16:08:34Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Members */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table", and is interested in an exchange of official letters (an MoU would take many years to pass through on their side apparently) to formalize the relationship. Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters.

== Goals ==

* Develop a closer relationship with the UN.

* Establish a formal agreement between OSGeo and the UN.

* Establish communication between the UN GIS team and the OSGeo community.

* Promote the use of Open Source geospatial tools by the UN's member states and committees.

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un

== Activities ==
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

== Next steps ==
* put out call for members for this new committee to Discuss list
* organize a monthly meeting, possibly using IRC or Slack
* draft official letter for formalizing relationship with UN

== Meetings ==

*

== Members ==

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* ''add your name''

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

LIDAR Format Letter

2015-04-21T06:45:30Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Signed */

=Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR=
April 2015.

We, the undersigned, are concerned that the current interoperability between LiDAR applications, through use of the open "LAS" format, is being threatened by ESRI's introduction and promotion of an alternative "Optimized LAS" '''''proprietary format.''''' This is of grave concern given that fragmentation of the LAS format will reduce interoperability between applications and organisations, and introduce vendor lock-in.

We request that:
# The OGC initiate the formalisation of an open standard for storing LiDAR data, and that OGC sponsors help prioritise the development of this open LiDAR standard.
# ESRI support the OGC in their [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/vision mission] "to advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability." In particular, ESRI joins with the OGC in consolidating an Open Standard for use of LiDAR data. This might include proposing ESRI's "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard to remove any technical or legal hurdles in use of "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard. A simple test to determine if "Optimized LAS" can be used as an Open Standard would be if "Optimized LAS" can legally be implemented by Open Source software such as libLAS or LASzip.
# Users and sponsors of LiDAR data, publicly state their preference for the use of an open LiDAR format over proprietary when selecting software and services.
# The custodians of the open LAS format [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)], who are part of [http://www.asprs.org/ American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)], request the term "LAS" not to be included in the name of a proprietary format, as it makes such a proprietary format appear to be an approved derivative of LAS.

=Signed=
Name, Affiliation(s), Optional comment on interest in Open LiDAR format

# Suchith Anand, Geo for All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy.
# Martin Isenburg, founder of [http://rapidlasso.com rapidlasso GmbH] and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools], and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves].
# Cameron Shorter, GeoSpatial Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft]. Core contributor and coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]. Contributor to numerous OGC testbeds, technical lead on a range of previous Australian and New Zealand Open Government initiatives.
# Stefan Keller, founder and director of [http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab Geometa Lab]; Professor in GIS, databases, open (government) data and interoperability; maintainer of GeoConverter; contributor to open source software (GDAL/OGR, QGIS).
# Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, committed to the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure principles, one being "to make geographic data more accessible to the public" [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]. Open standards are essential for this.
# Lene Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. User of Open and free Data from The Danish Geodata Agency - Using LAZ and LAS http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/content/dhmpunktsky.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria Antonia Brovelli], Full Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Geo For All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy and to Open Principles in Research.
# Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning] LLC. Committed to open data standards that are necessary for education and all levels of communication.
# [http://www.geodatawiz.com/armin-schmidt Armin Schmidt], Chief Developer at [http://www.GeodataWIZ.com GeodataWIZ Ltd] and Chairman of [http://www.archprospection.org ISAP], committed to better science through Open Data.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti], CTO Trilogis Srl, Italy. Committed to open data standards that maximize opportunity for innovative solutions, unencumbered by artificial obstacles to data exchange.
# [http://pt.linkedin.com/pub/jorge-rocha/1b/560/499 Jorge Gustavo Rocha], Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minho, Portugal, committed to better science through [http://www.gistam.org/EventChairs.aspx?y=2016 Open Data].
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Professor, Computer Science. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA. The need to promote open solutions is paramount.
# Alex Paza Makini, National University Solomon Islands, Natural Resources and Applied Science. Committed to open data standards for education and research, and everything beyond.
# Jorg M. Hacker, Professor, Director/Chief Scientist of [http://www.airborneresearchaustralia.com Airborne Research Australia], Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Open formats have always been a great benefit to airborne LiDAR.
# Didier Richard, Head of IS Training Dept. in Education and Research Directorate of [http://www.ign.fr Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière], France. OGC user, Contributor to OSGeO projects like GDAL.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adryane-gorayeb/74/517/96a Adryane Gorayeb], [http://www.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará Brazil], Geography Department. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuryryabov Yury Ryabov], PhD, Senior researcher at [http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wsu/i0001823 Russian Scientific-Research Centre for Ecological Safety], [http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/CentralEasternEurope/13383.aspx Russian Academy of Sciences], Saint Petersburg, Russia. Open data formats are essential for successful and reproducible scientific research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/teresa-lamelas-gracia/40/4a7/20b María Teresa Lamelas], [http://cud.unizar.es/ Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza], [http://geoforest.unizar.es/es/index.php GeoForest-IUCA]. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidherries David Herries], [http://www.interpine.co.nz/SitePages/Home.aspx Using LiDAR for forest yield modelling at Interpine Innovation]. Establishing open data standards provide scope for exponential growth in innovation. This is key to a rapidly developing technology like LiDAR.
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez Ortega]], [http://www.mazemap.no Mazemap]. OSGeo Charter member and Open Data nerd.
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer]], [http://www.geomaticblog.net Geomaticblog]. OSGeo Charter member and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karl-donert/3/160/571 Professor Karl Donert], President European Association of Geographers (http://www.eurogeo.nl/ EUROGEO)
# Drew Fenton, Boulder Creek, CA [http://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/ Countdown to the Last Coast Redwood]. Please protect Open Standards for geospatial data!
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] Geogeek & OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [http://vmx.cx Volker Mische], OSGeo Charter member and creator of GeoCouch
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/clquintanilla Carlos López Quintanilla], [http://www.psig.es PSIG] [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] GIS consultant, Spain
# [[User:woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], [http://imaptools.com iMaptools], OSGeo Charter member.
# [[User:odoepner|Oliver Doepner]], [http://oliver.doepner.net doepner.net], Software Engineer (Java,Linux), Open Standards and Open Source advocate
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], [http://gis.cri.fmach.it Fondazione Edmund Mach], OSGeo Charter member, FOSS4G and Open Data developer, advocate, contributor and user.
# Antoine Cottin, CTO of [http://www.carbomap.com Carbomap Ltd.] and creator of [http://github.com/carbomap/Fleurdelas Fleurdelas], Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], [http://strk.keybit.net/services.html NetLab], Free Software Hacker. There are already too many users slave to their tools, let's stop that!
# [http://www.itopen.it Alessandro Pasotti], [http://www.itopen.it ItOpen], GIS Free Software Developer.
# [http://www.roccatello.com Eduard Roccatello], [http://www.3dgis.it 3DGIS], 3DGIS CTO and co-Founder
# [[User:moovida|Andrea Antonello]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Open Source GIS developer, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# [http://www.associazionegfoss.it Stefano Campus], President of [http://www.associazionegfoss.it GFOSS.it] Association (Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera), Italian Local Chapter of OSGeo Foundation.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi Margherita Di Leo], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Sacosta Sergio Acosta y Lara], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin Maxim Dubinin], CEO at NextGIS, OSGeo Charter Member. Another 'standard' proprietary format? No, thank you.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Italy
# [http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/jgrn Jonathan Greenberg], Assistant Professor, [http://publish.illinois.edu/jgrn/ GEARS Laboratory], Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
# Bob Basques, Saint Paul, Mn., Technical Director for SharedGeo.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maning Maning Sambale], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pcav Paolo Cavallini], QGIS PSC
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dr Phillip Davis], Member OSGeo Geo For All education advisory board, Director @ GeoAcademy
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon Nicolas Bozon], [http://zoo-project.org ZOO-Project PSC], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslanrainis Ruslan Rainis], Professor, Director, [http://www.research.usm.my/default.asp?tag=36 Centre for Research Initiatives in Liberal Arts & Social Sciences](CRI-LASS). Open GeoInformation for a Sustainable Tomorrow and the Bottom Billions.
# [[User:Silli|Silvia Franceschi]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Environmental Engineer Open Source GIS power user, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# Oscar Martinez Rubi [http://esciencecenter.nl Netherlands eScience Center] eScience engineer.
# Werner Macho, QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# Giuseppe Patti, Geologist and Freelance Geospatial Advisor, GFOSS supporter.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Drappo Daniel Rappo], Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, School of Business and Engineering Vaud.
# [[User:nachouve|Juan Ignacio Varela]], Freelance Geospatial Advisor and OSGeo Local Chapter Member.
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com Mapgears], OSGeo Charter member.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulnanclares Raul Nanclares], RS&GIS Specialist
# [http://www.ing.unitn.it/dica/hp/index_eng.php?user=rigon Riccardo Rigon], Professor at University of Trento (Italy)
# [[User:Siki| Zoltan Siki]] Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), OSGeo Charter member.
# [http://lefsky.org Michael Lefsky], Professor of Remote Sensing Science, Colorado State University and Director, Center for Ecological Applications of Lidar.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lucas-c-villa-real/7/a0b/b06 Lucas Villa Real], Research software engineer at IBM Research - Brazil.
# [http://terraremote.com Loren Dawe], GIS Manager at Terra Remote Sensing Inc. Lidar Supplier and Open Standards Advocate
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Warmerda Frank Warmerdam], Software Developer, OSGeo Charter member
# [http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/jens-ingensand/0/836/6b0 Jens Ingensand], Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, [http://www.heig-vd.ch/international School of Business and Engineering Vaud].
# [http://nsidc.org/research/bios/khalsa.html Siri Jodha Khalsa], Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, [http://cires.colorado.edu/ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences], University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
# [http://gis.uster.ch/ Andreas Neumann], GIS manager, City of Uster, Kanton Zurich, Switzerland
# [http://www.iwmi.org/ Yann Chemin], Researcher - Remote Sensing, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/etiennebracine Etienne B. Racine], Geomatics and remote sensing project manager, WSP, Canada
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alejandro-hinojosa/7/33b/342 Alejandro Hinojosa], [http://cicese.mx CICESE Research Center], Earth Sciences Division, GIS & Remote Sensing Lab, Ensenada, Mexico
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:epifanio Massimo Di Stefano], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], University of Colorado Denver, [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/CLAS/Departments/ges/Pages/Geography.aspx Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences]. Openness is fundamental to progress.
# Peter Drexel, GIS manager, [http://www.vorarlberg.at/vorarlberg/bauen_wohnen/bauen/vermessung_geoinformation/start.htm State of Vorarlberg (State Survey Office)], Austria
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marco-minghini/a8/3b6/198 Marco Minghini], Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [http://www.polimi.it Politecnico di Milano]. Committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/candan-eyl%C3%BCl-kilsedar/65/380/976 Candan Eylül Kilsedar], WebGIS Developer, Research Fellow at [http://www.polimi.it Politecnico di Milano].
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:AlastairMcKinstry Alastair McKinstry], Debian Linux meteorology/GIS developer, Ireland
# [http://people.unibo.it/it/elena.mezzini2 Elena Mezzini], Remote-sensing in forest ecology, Research Fellow, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=43566064 Mihai A. Tanase], Honorary fellow, Dept. of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dave-murray/10/742/3a2 Dave Murray], GIS Coordinator at [http://www.ci.westminster.co.us/ City of Westminster]
# Ayesa Martínez Serrano, Estudiante de Doctorado en [http://www.ciga.unam.mx/ Geografía del Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental de la UNAM-México]
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-crosby/15/b7/114 Christopher Crosby], co-founder, [http://www.opentopography.org/ OpenTopography]
# [http://sg.linkedin.com/in/sgganesh Shanmugam Ganeshkumar], Vice President - Consulting, [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON]
# [[User:Chaitanya|Chaitanya Kumar CH]], GIS Developer with [http://www.egis-geoplan.com/ Egis Geoplan - India] and OSGeo Charter member.
# KS Rajan, Associate Professor and Head, [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/ Lab for Spatial Informatics, IIIT Hyderabad] and Chairman, [http://www.kaiinos.com/ KAIINOS Geospatial Technologies]; Promoter and Supported of Open Source, Open Data, Open Standards and e-Governance in India
# Pericles Nacionales, RS/GIS Specialist and OSGeo Charter member.

=Background=
==About LiDAR==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar LiDAR] (Light Detection And Ranging) is a form of high precision range measurement, much like a radar system, that uses laser light instead of electromagnetic waves. The standard LiDAR product is a 3D point cloud that can be conceptualized as a series of point measurements representing distance between the sensor to a returned emission.

For over a decade (since 2003), there has been a common format for storing LiDAR data, the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html “LAS” format], and open source libraries have been developed to read, write and process these LAS files: [http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/liblas_overview.html libLAS] and [http://github.com/LASlib/LASlib LASlib]. These libraries have been incorporated within many LiDAR applications, allowing read/write access to a common exchange format, and resulting in full interoperability between the applications. There is also an open source compression algorithm for the LAS format called [http://laszip.org LASzip] that many LiDAR data portals use to compress LAS into smaller LAZ files for faster download. Many LiDAR software packages have added [http://laszip.org/#software-with-native-laz-support native support] for these compressed LAZ files.

==LAS Limitations==

Quoting [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey]:

: LAS format is not without its drawbacks:

:* While it is a binary format and does not waste any space unnecessarily, neither does it apply any compression to the data it stores. That’s not good for archival use.
:* Also, LAS stores points in scan order, so accessing any particular chunk of points involves reading the whole file. That’s not good for random access.
: Clearly there is a little more work to be done. Can LAS be improved? In fact, it already has been:
:* An open source compression library, LASzip can apply 20''':'''1 lossless compression to LAS files, making them great for archival purposes.
:* Other LAS users have experimented with re-ordering points in a LAS or LASzip file to allow random access to internal chunks of the LIDAR point cloud.
: Basically, making LAS smaller and faster is not rocket science, and if the work were incorporated into libLAS then the whole LIDAR community could leverage it together, and the user community would only have one file type to interchange.

=="Optimized LAS" A ''' ''Proprietary'' ESRI Format'''==
ESRI announced, 12 January 2014, the release of an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 "Optimized LAS"] format which is claimed to provide faster access and smaller file sizes (similar to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format). This announcement created a outburst of vocal protest in the LiDAR community [[http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ 1] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ 2] [http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2014/01/15/las-laz-lazzip-zlas-and-you/ 3] [http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/lidar-software 4] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars-2/ 5] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/02/lidar-format-wars-3/ 6]].

The implementation of the "Optimized LAS" format is not available as Open Source and the format and algorithm details itself are undocumented, which means nobody can currently create alternate implementations, neither closed nor Open Source. This causes both technical as well as legal barriers for other applications reading and/or writing to this proprietary format. It creates a vendor lock-in scenario which is contrary to the principles of the Open Geospatial Consortium, the OSGeo Foundation, and many government IT procurement policies.

One year after releasing the "Optimized LAS" format, ESRI released a Windows only library (DLL) as a free-of-charge (gratis) download that is claimed to convert between LAS and "Optimized LAS". Note there is a distinct difference between a "free-of-charge" binary distribution of DLLs and publishing something as "Open Source". Unless the source code of the library is released as Open Source under an Open Source license, libLAS and related products will be legally prevented from incorporating ESRI's reader/writer code into their codebase, or from fixing any underlying bugs or performance limitations which may exist in ESRI's product.

Ironically, ESRI later placed their '''binary''' library files [http://github.com/Esri/esri-zlas-io-library on github] accompanied by an Apache License, but no source code was published. The distribution of binaries without source code is allowed by Apache License, but very uncommon and misleading, to say the least. The practice goes against the basic idea of “Open Source” and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) even has an FAQ entry on the obvious contradiction of [http://opensource.org/faq#non-distribution “Open Source” without source code].

==OGC's Efforts For An ''' ''Open'' LiDAR Standard'''==

The [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] has indicated their interest in developing a standard LiDAR format.

Carl Reed (formerly on OGC staff) provided the following information on OGC's previous efforts to work toward enabling Open Standards in LiDAR:

: "Over the last 8 or so years, the OGC approached ASPRS at least twice regarding LAS and worked with ASPRS to bring LAS into the OGC for consideration as both a Best Practice and an OGC standard. OGC member Rick Pearsall worked diligently on this. Rick worked for NGA, was active in the OGC, and was also the Standards Committee chair at ASPRS. Rick and Carl tried and failed. These attempts go back to [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/divisions/ppd/ppd_meetings/2007springppdreport.pdf at least 2007]. More recently, Carl Reed had an email dialogue with Lewis Graham to bring LAS into OGC as an OGC Best Practice. Carl thought progress was being made, but then for some reason all communication stopped."

[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/ssimmons Scott Simmons] (Executive Director, Standards Program) has explained the OGC's continuing interest in pursuing point cloud encoding standards, including a member-initiated mechanism to extend LAS data with OGC-standard XML content.
: The OGC invites interested members who wish to work on this effort to please contact Scott Simmons (Executive Director, Standards Program E-mail : ssimmons@opengeospatial.org) to register their interest and discuss details. OGC will also be holding an ad hoc session at the OGC's next [http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1506tc Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, CO, USA in early June] to bring together all interested parties from all sectors (government, industry, academia) for this and plan next steps.

==History: LAS and ESRI's "Optimized LAS"==

Martin Isenburg, one of the leading experts in LIDAR formats, and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools] and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves], explains the history of LAS and "Optimized LAS":

: '''Summary:'''

:* The LAS format has been used successfully for over a decade.
:* Within last couple of years, ESRI has added native LAS support into ESRI products.
:* ESRI discussed embracing the open [http://laszip.org LAZ] format and simultaneously developed a proprietary "Optimized LAS" format.
:* The open geospatial community offered, on numerous occasions, to work with ESRI to avoid format fragmentation.
:* ESRI's proprietary "Optimized LAS" format is very similar in design and performance to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format.

: '''1998: Original LAS format definition'''

: The original development of the LAS format started in 1998 according to [http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lasroom/zKqchDj1JL4/discussion Lewis Graham]. The effort was at first led by pioneers of the LiDAR industry until the format was donated to the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html ASPRS]. Since then ASPRS's [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)] has been maintaining the LAS format, guiding it from the initial LAS 1.0 version until today's LAS 1.4 version. This effort successfully created an open data exchange format for discrete LiDAR points that is currently supported by practically every LiDAR-related software program.

: '''2011: ESRI joins LAS Working Group'''

: ESRI did not join the LWG of the ASPRS until rather late, the 24th of August in 2011. At that time ESRI was not a significant "player" in the LiDAR market given they did not have much support for LiDAR in any of their products. That was to change soon as they were planning to add LAS as a native data type in ArcGIS 10.1.

: Shortly before that, in June 2011, Martin Isenburg received a personal message from the ESRI development team: "I have a question about LAS compression. I’m evaluating some potential enhancements and support for [LAS and] LAZ is one of them. Compression time and amount is impressive." When inquiring two months later about the status of [http://laszip.org LAZ] integration Martin was told: "We’re in beta and working to finish the current release. I very much doubt LAZ will make it in because it’s too big a change at this time. So, we’ll be considering, for the following release, [for] what we want to do regarding compression and spatial indexing."

: '''June 2012: ArcGIS 10.1 includes [proprietary] LAS Dataset file'''

: In June 2012 ESRI released ArcGIS 10.1 and introduced the proprietary "LAS Dataset file (*.lasd)" that groups collections of files into one logical unit. This format of this useful LAS container file was not shared with others despite several private and eventually [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/jwHpi0efUgA/discussion public] requests.

: '''2012/2013: Collaboration Discussions'''

: There were encouraging follow-ups from the ESRI team about adopting the open LAZ format in January 2012: "I would be interested in having a more in depth meeting with you to better understand the great work you are doing with LAS and how we can possibly better partner on this." and again in December 2012: "If you have time, I'd like to set some time aside Tuesday afternoon to meet with <an important person> at the ESRI booth. Does 2pm sound okay?" The meeting went well and it looked as if ESRI was going to embrace the LAZ format because shortly after the meeting Martin got word that: "I hear from <an important person> that it was a success and that he had a good meeting with you. I wanted to see if we can have a telephone discussion on Wednesday or Thursday this week related to the potential of incorporating LAZ into ArcGIS."

: Then the first signs of hesitation showed. First there were legal issues raised in February 2013: "Currently the legal aspects are being reviewed. They were having some issues separating the LPGL aspects from LASzip from the remainder of LAStools etc." and then in April 2013 concerns about the code were made: "We have started to look into the integration of LAZ, but came across some issues. We don’t want to copy files from the other package, mix and match or hack around. We were hoping for an API to stream points out of a LAZ file as well as write LAZ files. There should be a simple code sample for that?" and - following up on that - in June 2013 Martin was told "I see value in LASzip becoming a de-facto standard that provides compression to the LAS format. If this is to happen then it needs to be bundled together with appropriate reference implementations, examples and documentation as a standard and so ensure that issues as defined earlier in email do not occur."

: '''June 2013: ESRI asked to sponsor clean LASzip DLL'''

: At that time [http://laszip.org LASzip] was an open source project without sponsorship. The original funding from [http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColdRegionsResearchandEngineeringLaboratory.aspx USACE] that had turned [http://laszip.org LASzip] from an academic prototype into an industry strength compression engine had long run out. So Martin asked ESRI to become a sponsor to create the clean [http://laszip.org LASzip] API that ESRI was after. The answer was: "ESRI often helps in the financing of Open Source projects and I could foresee ESRI possibly helping in LASzip. [...] If you are interested in promoting LASzip as such a standard and doing the required work then I would recommend you put together a proposal and I can look to get ESRI as a sponsor."

: Immediately Martin proposed to ESRI: "I hereby propose to write an easy to use open source DLL wrapper for LASzip that will make it easier to integrate LASzip in a standardized manner into other software products such as ArcGIS, LP 360, or Terrasolid. This will come with example code on how to use the DLL for reading and writing LAZ files and include a few compressed example files. I hereby ask ESRI to provide funding for this effort without imposing any limitations on the produced DLL API."

: '''July 2013: ArcGIS 10.2 includes [proprietary] LAS indexing '''

: With the release of ArcGIS 10.2 in July 2013, ESRI introduced spatial indexing to speed up area-of-interest queries. Their new proprietary *.lasx files were seemingly identical in functionality to the open *.lax files that had been [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/j0qA8NBMHJs/discussion announced] two years earlier - in May 2011 - and were [http://rapidlasso.com/2012/12/03/lasindex-spatial-indexing-of-lidar-data/ presented] at ELMF in November 2012.

: '''July 2013: Open LASzip API released'''

: After more requests for an easier interface to [http://laszip.org LASzip] (in particular for [http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion/fusionlatest.html USDA's FUSION]), Martin [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/oplsDhhnhDQ/discussion released] a clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use LASzip DLL (without ESRI funding). Martin expected that developers at ESRI would now use it to add read and write support for [http://laszip.org LAZ] to their next release of ArcGIS.

: '''December 2013 : ESRI discovered to be secretly developing proprietary LAS format'''

: In December of 2013, several LAStools users contacted Martin with suspicions that ESRI may be creating a proprietary LAS compression. Martin [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ broke the news] as soon as it became evident that ESRI had used the time it needed to resolve "legal issues" and "code problems" to put together their own proprietary compressed format with near-identical performance and functionality to [http://laszip.org LASzip]. A few days later ESRI released an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214/ official FAQ] to confirming this was the case.

: From day one, Martin has worked with stakeholders, including ESRI, to avoid format fragmentation. Martin's core argument for resolving this to everybody's benefit was that - coincidentally - a natural break was happening in the LAS format with the introduction of the new LAS 1.4 point types. Martin outlined a detailed plan for how a joint development of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for LAS 1.4 between rapidlasso and ESRI could exploit this natural break in the LAS format to accomplish two things at once:
:# Add the unspecified technical additions that ESRI had hinted at desiring, and
:# Extend the [http://laszip.org LASzip] compression scheme to handle the new point types introduced with the LAS 1.4 specification. As there was no pressing need at the time to handle LAS 1.4 Martin had delayed the extension of [http://laszip.org LASzip] to the new LAS 1.4 point types to make sure a cooperation with ESRI would remain a viable option.

: '''1 April 2014: Positive reception to "Optimized LAS" / LASzip collaboration April Fools announcement'''

: In an attempt to convince ESRI management of the community desire for an open standard, Martin released an April Fools' Day [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ prank press release] pretending that ESRI had already agreed to the envisioned collaboration to develop a joint LiDAR compressor. Community [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ jubilant reactions (see comments)] left no doubt about the sentiment on this issue within the LiDAR community.

: '''October 2014: Announcement of [open] LAS Compatibility mode'''

: [http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ Digital Coast, NOAA Coastal Services Center] became a Gold Sponsor of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for the development of the [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/10/06/rapidlasso-announces-laszip-compatibility-mode-for-las-1-4/ LAS 1.4 compatibility mode] that was [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/nUFMkKSz53g/discussion beta-released] in November 2014. This allowed support for the new point types in [http://laszip.org LASzip] without closing the door on a potential cooperation with ESRI for a joint LAS 1.4 compressor.

: '''November 2014: ESRI announces proprietary extension to LAS 1.4'''

: In November 2014 [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated ESRI announced] that they had added their [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated own extension] for the new LAS 1.4 point types to "Optimized LAS", dismissing the opportunity to develop a joint compressor and avoid format fragmentation by exploiting this "natural break" in the LAS format as Martin had suggested.

: Since then, ESRI has been [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ promoting] "Optimized LAS". By including the term "LAS" in "Optimized LAS" and "zLAS", the distinction between the open LAS format and proprietary format is blurred. This is likely to mislead novice and future users, thereby endangering many years of standardization work. To date, [April 2014], the [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/committees/standards/LAS_1_4_r13.pdf custodians of the LAS format], the LAS Working Group (LWG) of the ASPRS has [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ yet to make an official statement] regarding use of the "LAS" name in promoting a proprietary LiDAR format.

=Value of Standards=

The importance of Open Standards is described in most government IT policies. For instance, the United Kingdom policy states:
: … Government assets should be interoperable and open for re-use in order to maximise return on investment, avoid technological or supplier lock-in, reduce operational risk in ICT projects and provide responsive services for citizens and business. This should also lower barriers to entry for more diverse sources of IT services, including citizens and SMEs. <ref>All about Open Source – [http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78959/All_About_Open_Source_v2_0.pdf An Introduction to Open Source Software for Government IT], Version 2.0, United Kingdom Cabinet Office</ref>

The value of Open Standards has been described in numerous national studies on the effects of standards on economic growth.

: ... the national studies demonstrate that standards have a positive influence on economic growth due to the resulting improved diffusion of knowledge. The contribution of standards to the growth rate in each country is equivalent to 0.9% in Germany, 0.8% in 0.3% in the UK and 0.2% in Canada. <ref>Prof. Dr. Knut Blind, Prof. Dr. Andre Jungmittag, Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf [http://www.din.de/sixcms_upload/media/2896/DIN_GNN_2011_engl_akt_neu.pdf "The Economic Benefits of Standardization"], ''DINN, 2000''. Retrieved March 2015.</ref>

=Further Reading=

# [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey provides background to LAS vs Optimised LAS]
# [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ Running commentary by Martin Isenburg, author of LASlib]
# [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ Earlier comment from Martin Isenburg]
# [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ First call-to-action by Martin Isenburg]
# [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-announces-las-compression/ ESRI Announces "Optimised LAS"]
# [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 ESRI description of "Optimised LAS"]
# [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-March/001225.html Discussion background on this topic at Geo for All list]
# [http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/esris-claim-at-being-good-standards.html Esri's claim at being good "Standards" citizens is questionable]

=References=

<references />

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-17T21:56:35Z

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* Period covered: January - December, 2009
* Contact name: '''Pericles Nacionales'''

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Participation--several workshops and presentations--at the annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference
* Birds of a Feather discussion of open source applications at the MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participated at the OSGeo code sprint in Toronto (GeoMoose and MapServer representatives)
* Members actively involved in Red and Mississippi Rivers flood response
* Helped promote use of the US National Grid
* Recognized the relevance of Open Street Map and its uses in private, and local and state government agencies
* Increased member participation in local chapter meetings and social events

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Need more effort in promoting local chapter
* Need more effort in promoting open source geospatial tools
* More outreach to end users (as opposed to developers, although that is also desired)
* Be more inclusive (reach out to other open source projects)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Help with GeoMoose project
* More Open Street Map participation needed
* Help to secure booth space at the 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Help to promote OSGeo and open source geospatial tools at said conference, and other local conferences
* Spread the word to increase local chapter membership
* Identify local open source geospatial projects and resources

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
In 2010, we can look forward to:
* Paul Ramsey as keynote speaker for 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participation at the 2010 OSGeo Code Sprint in New York
* More presentations of important geospatial topics in meetings
* More outreach to local open source geospatial projects and resources
* Demo/Installfests
* Collaborations with other open source groups in the twin cities area
* Increase use of social networks
* Mapping parties

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[[Category: Reports 2009]]

New York Code Sprint 2010

2010-02-16T20:41:43Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Participation */

[[Image:i_osgeo_ny.png|right]]

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems (as done last year at the [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009]]). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

We have started a [[New York Code Sprint 2010 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==

Dates: February 20 to 23, 2010.

Duration: Four days (Saturday to Tuesday) from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

The Open Planning Project and OpenGeo will be hosting the event this year, in a penthouse event room ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/philaestheta/3922525728/in/set-72157622375114194/ pic1], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4081335110/ pic2], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4080572085/ pic3], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4080570151/ pic4]) on the top floor of their offices ([http://maps.google.com/maps?q=148+Lafayette+Street+new+york Map]), providing us a beautiful space and free internet access for the duration.

[http://openplans.org/ The Open Planning Project] 
148 Lafayette Street 
New York, New York 
10013, USA 
Telephone: 212.796.4220 

=== Weekend Access ===

Access on the weekend will be complicated due to the main lobby being locked. If you leave the venue, remember to '''bring your cellphone''' so you can call up to get let back in. '''Call or text Paul @ 1-250-885-0632''' if you find yourself locked out.

== Sponsors ==

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each $750 sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

To sponsor, please contact Paul Ramsey (pramsey at cleverelephant dot ca) directly.

=== 2010 Sponsors ===

* [http://www.lizardtech.com/ LizardTech]
* [http://www.coordinatesolutions.com Coordinate Solutions]
* [http://www.qpublic.net/ qPublic.net]
* [http://fargeo.com/ Farallon Geographics]
* [http://www.avencia.com/ Avencia]
* [http://opengeo.org/ OpenGeo]

== Budget ==

The current budget is online [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tMuTwbIOm-O6Bm6v9l7RG4g&single=true&gid=0&output=html here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to [http://osgeo.org/ OSGeo].

== Hotel ==

'''Group Rate: $149''' 
Holiday Inn SoHo ([http://maps.google.com/maps?q=138+Lafayette+ST+NY,+NY+10013 Map]) 
138 Lafayette Street 
New York, New York 10013 
Phone: 212-966-8898 
Fax: 212-941-4123

[http://ichotelsgroup.com/redirect?path=rates&brandCode=HI&regionCode=1&localeCode=en&GPC=OPP&hotelCode=NYCDT&_PMID=99801505 CLICK HERE] for the group reservation page. The block rate '''expires January 29'''.

Please ensure that the dates you are reserving fall within 2/19-2/23 or you may get an "unavailable" page. If you cannot book using the form, please phone the hotel and cite your affiliation with "The Open Planning Project GROUP"

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to New York, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek (or someone like me)]] (liblas, anything touching MrSID, other stuff tbd)
* Steve Lime (MapServer)
* [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] (Mapserver)
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer)
* [[User:aboudreault|Alan Boudreault]] (MapServer)
* [[User:Tbonfort|Thomas Bonfort]] (MapServer)
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS, TinyOWS)
* [[User:hobu|Howard Butler]] (Mapserver, GDAL, OSGeo SAC, libLAS)
* [[User:filbertk|Katie Filbert]] (PostGIS, GDAL, OpenStreetMap)
* [[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] (MapServer, GeoMOOSE, potentially OpenStreetMap)
* [[User:theduckylittle|Dan "Ducky" Little]] (MapServer, GeoMOOSE, OpenStreetMap)
* [[User:tschaub| Tim Schaub]] (JavaScript is C based isn't it?)
* [[User:ahocevar| Andreas Hocevar]] (Web client developers are friends of all tribes)
* [[User:dzwarg| David Zwarg]] (PostGIS, OpenLayers)
* [[User:joel| Joel Schlagel]] (MapServer)
* [[User:jadams| Jeff Adams]] (PostGIS)
* [[User:Drblakl| Devin Blakley]] (MapServer, PostGIS)
* [[User:assefa| Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer)

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer)
* [[User:Anton|Anton Patrushev]] (pgRouting)
* [[User:danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]] (pgRouting)
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the New York Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

== Social Events ==

* Friday Evening Meet-up @ [http://broomestreetbar.ypguides.net/ Broome Street Bar] [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=363+W+Broadway+New+York,+NY+10013&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.200193,57.480469&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=363+W+Broadway,+New+York,+10013&z=17 363 W Broadway]
* Saturday Evening Meet-up @ [http://whiskeytavernnyc.com/ Whiskey Tavern] [http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=79%20baxter%20street,%20ny,%20ny%2010013&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title 79 Baxter St]
* Sunday Evening Hockey Game (USA vs Canada) 7PM on MSNBC In the penthouse
* Monday Evening Dinner Nyona (Tentative) [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=199+Grand+St,+New+York,+NY&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=199+Grand+St,+New+York,+10013&ll=40.719607,-73.996761&spn=0.00679,0.007317&z=17 199 Grand Street] 7PM

== Eating Options ==

Some locations recommended by TOPP staff:

* Restaurants
** [http://www.yelp.com/biz/jup-she-new-york#hrid:zi6qNjMVHAYMHXsf4CvZGg Jup She (Korean)]
** [http://www.acmebarandgrill.com/ Acme Bar and Grill (burgers, etc)]
** [http://www.yelp.com/biz/nyonya-new-york#hrid:8qpqjyRpRtbIS-padXPGlg/src:search/query:restaurant%20good%20for%20groups Nyonya (Asian fusion)]
** [http://www.yelp.com/biz/pellegrinos-new-york#hrid:OVELcqfjE5IHo2w5_xJIVg/src:search/query:restaurant%20good%20for%20groups Pellegrino's (Italian)]
** [http://www.esquinanyc.com/index.php La Esquina (Mexican and a TOPP favorite)]
* Bars
** [http://broomestreetbar.ypguides.net/ Broome Street Bar (features bar food/burgers)]
** [http://nymag.com/listings/bar/mulberry_street_bar/ Mulberry Street Bar]
** [http://www.yelp.com/biz/onieals-grand-street-bar-and-restaurant-new-york#hrid:8m0Sw8vdtsdNvFzNl8ncXw/src:search/query:bar%20large%20group Onieal's Grand Street Bar and Restaurant]
** [http://www.yelp.com/biz/madame-x-new-york#hrid:4-Dv3hocN8L0qbtveq03Zw/src:search/query:bar%20large%20group Madame X]
** [http://www.yelp.com/biz/m1-5-new-york#hrid:dB6_fQlIk4aScvgG8IPpgw/src:search/query:bar%20large%20group M1-5]

== Getting to the Sprint ==

=== From Newark International (EWR) ===

* Follow the signs to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_Newark Air Train]. Before going up the escalator, buy a ticket to New York, Penn Station at one of the machines.
* Take the Air Train to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport_(NJT_station) rail station] at the end, if you forgot to buy your rail ticket, you have another opportunity here (usually with a lineup).
* Catch a train to Penn Station (usually at platform 1/2), check the board.
* At Penn Station,
** leave the station and grab a taxi, or,
** leave the station and walk to 34th and 6th to pick up yellow line ((N) (Q) (R) and (W) trains) downtown to Canal St Station, [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=canal+and+broadway,+ny&daddr=148+Lafayette+St,+New+York,+NY+10013&hl=en&geocode=FSJUbQIdLtKW-yljyaIVilnCiTG-h_Ppjtt1Sw%3BFblUbQIdRNuW-ynl7yKXiVnCiTERqIVDsHgxBw&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=40.71977,-74.001065&sspn=0.006936,0.007392&ie=UTF8&ll=40.71957,-74.0007&spn=0.006936,0.007392&z=17 walk from there], or,
** follow the signs in Penn to the blue line ((A) and (C) trains) and ride downtown to Canal St Station, [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=canal+and+6th,+ny&daddr=148+Lafayette+St,+New+York,+NY+10013&hl=en&geocode=FftdbQIdS8SW-yl_ANwii1nCiTFjAFKyeZhezQ%3BFblUbQIdRNuW-ynl7yKXiVnCiTERqIVDsHgxBw&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=40.720884,-74.002769&sspn=0.006936,0.007392&ie=UTF8&ll=40.720559,-74.002479&spn=0.006936,0.007392&z=17 walk from there].

=== From JFK (JFK) ===

* Follow the signs to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK AirTrain].
* Take the AirTrain to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutphin_Boulevard_–_Archer_Avenue_–_JFK_Airport_(New_York_City_Subway) Sutphin Boulevard] ((J) and (Z) trains) subway station (aka Jamaica Station).
* Transfer to the (J) or (Z) train heading to Manhattan.
* Get off at the Canal Street station (intersection of Canal and Centre), and [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=canal+and+centre,+ny&daddr=148+Lafayette+St,+New+York,+NY+10013&hl=en&geocode=FbNObQIdptmW-yndalv9iVnCiTFXOwR5ssgldQ%3BFblUbQIdRNuW-ynl7yKXiVnCiTERqIVDsHgxBw&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=40.718765,-74.000035&sspn=0.001734,0.001848&ie=UTF8&ll=40.718765,-74.000035&spn=0.003468,0.003696&z=18 walk from there].

=== From LaGuardia (LGA) ===

* Take a taxi (~$25 + tolls (~$3))

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

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:57:07Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Outlook for 2010 */

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:54:36Z

Wiki-Pnaciona:

* Period covered: January - December, 2009
* Contact name: '''Pericles Nacionales'''

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Participation--several workshops and presentations--at the annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference
* Birds of a Feather discussion of open source applications at the MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participated at the OSGeo code sprint in Toronto (GeoMoose and MapServer representatives)
* Members actively involved in Red and Mississippi Rivers flood response
* Helped promote use of the US National Grid
* Recognized the relevance of Open Street Map and its uses in private, and local and state government agencies
* Increased member participation in local chapter meetings and social events

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Need more effort in promoting local chapter
* Need more effort in promoting open source geospatial tools
* More outreach to end users (as opposed to developers, although that is also desired)
* Be more inclusive (reach out to other open source projects)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Help with GeoMoose project
* More Open Street Map participation needed
* Help to secure booth space at the 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Help to promote OSGeo and open source geospatial tools at said conference, and other local conferences
* Spread the word to increase local chapter membership
* Identify local open source geospatial projects and resources

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
In 2010, we can look forward to:
* Paul Ramsey as keynote speaker for 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* More presentations of important geospatial topics in meetings
* More outreach to local open source geospatial projects and resources
* Demo/Installfests
* Collaborations with other open source groups in the twin cities area
* Increase use of social networks
* Mapping parties
* Getting Bitner more involved!

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:53:49Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Outlook for 2010 */

* Contact name: '''Pericles Nacionales'''
* Period covered: January - December, 2009

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Participation--several workshops and presentations--at the annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference
* Birds of a Feather discussion of open source applications at the MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participated at the OSGeo code sprint in Toronto (GeoMoose and MapServer representatives)
* Members actively involved in Red and Mississippi Rivers flood response
* Helped promote use of the US National Grid
* Recognized the relevance of Open Street Map and its uses in private, and local and state government agencies
* Increased member participation in local chapter meetings and social events

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Need more effort in promoting local chapter
* Need more effort in promoting open source geospatial tools
* More outreach to end users (as opposed to developers, although that is also desired)
* Be more inclusive (reach out to other open source projects)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Help with GeoMoose project
* More Open Street Map participation needed
* Help to secure booth space at the 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Help to promote OSGeo and open source geospatial tools at said conference, and other local conferences
* Spread the word to increase local chapter membership
* Identify local open source geospatial projects and resources

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
In 2010, we can look forward to:
* Paul Ramsey as keynote speaker for 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* More presentations of important geospatial topics in meetings
* More outreach to local open source geospatial projects and resources
* Demo/Installfests
* Collaborations with other open source groups in the twin cities area
* Increase use of social networks
* Mapping parties
* Getting Bitner more involved!

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:53:19Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Outlook for 2010 */

* Contact name: '''Pericles Nacionales'''
* Period covered: January - December, 2009

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Participation--several workshops and presentations--at the annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference
* Birds of a Feather discussion of open source applications at the MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participated at the OSGeo code sprint in Toronto (GeoMoose and MapServer representatives)
* Members actively involved in Red and Mississippi Rivers flood response
* Helped promote use of the US National Grid
* Recognized the relevance of Open Street Map and its uses in private, and local and state government agencies
* Increased member participation in local chapter meetings and social events

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Need more effort in promoting local chapter
* Need more effort in promoting open source geospatial tools
* More outreach to end users (as opposed to developers, although that is also desired)
* Be more inclusive (reach out to other open source projects)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Help with GeoMoose project
* More Open Street Map participation needed
* Help to secure booth space at the 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Help to promote OSGeo and open source geospatial tools at said conference, and other local conferences
* Spread the word to increase local chapter membership
* Identify local open source geospatial projects and resources

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
In 2010, we can look forward to:
* Paul Ramsey as keynote speaker for 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* More presentations of importance geospatial topics in meetings
* More outreach to local open source geospatial projects and resources
* Demo/Installfests
* Collaborations with other open source groups in the twin cities area
* Increase use of social networks
* Mapping parties
* Getting Bitner more involved!

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:51:12Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009 */

* Contact name: '''Pericles Nacionales'''
* Period covered: January - December, 2009

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Participation--several workshops and presentations--at the annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference
* Birds of a Feather discussion of open source applications at the MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participated at the OSGeo code sprint in Toronto (GeoMoose and MapServer representatives)
* Members actively involved in Red and Mississippi Rivers flood response
* Helped promote use of the US National Grid
* Recognized the relevance of Open Street Map and its uses in private, and local and state government agencies
* Increased member participation in local chapter meetings and social events

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Need more effort in promoting local chapter
* Need more effort in promoting open source geospatial tools
* More outreach to end users (as opposed to developers, although that is also desired)
* Be more inclusive (reach out to other open source projects)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Help with GeoMoose project
* More Open Street Map participation needed
* Help to secure booth space at the 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Help to promote OSGeo and open source geospatial tools at said conference, and other local conferences
* Spread the word to increase local chapter membership
* Identify local open source geospatial projects and resources

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
* Paul Ramsey will be keynote speaker for 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* More presentations of importance geospatial topics in meetings
* More outreach to local open source geospatial projects and resources
* Demo/Installfests
* Collaborations with other open source groups in the twin cities area
* Increase use of social networks
* Mapping parties
* Get Bitner more involved

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:50:29Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009 */

== Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009 ==

* Contact name: '''Pericles Nacionales'''
* Period covered: January - December, 2009

=== Key Accomplishments ===
* Participation--several workshops and presentations--at the annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference
* Birds of a Feather discussion of open source applications at the MN GIS/LIS conference
* Participated at the OSGeo code sprint in Toronto (GeoMoose and MapServer representatives)
* Members actively involved in Red and Mississippi Rivers flood response
* Helped promote use of the US National Grid
* Recognized the relevance of Open Street Map and its uses in private, and local and state government agencies
* Increased member participation in local chapter meetings and social events

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* Need more effort in promoting local chapter
* Need more effort in promoting open source geospatial tools
* More outreach to end users (as opposed to developers, although that is also desired)
* Be more inclusive (reach out to other open source projects)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* Help with GeoMoose project
* More Open Street Map participation needed
* Help to secure booth space at the 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* Help to promote OSGeo and open source geospatial tools at said conference, and other local conferences
* Spread the word to increase local chapter membership
* Identify local open source geospatial projects and resources

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
* Paul Ramsey will be keynote speaker for 2010 MN GIS/LIS conference
* More presentations of importance geospatial topics in meetings
* More outreach to local open source geospatial projects and resources
* Demo/Installfests
* Collaborations with other open source groups in the twin cities area
* Increase use of social networks
* Mapping parties
* Get Bitner more involved

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:49:34Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* OSGeo Twin Cities Local Chapter Report 2009 */

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:23:34Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Project Name */

== OSGeo Twin Cities Local Chapter Report 2009 ==

* Contact name: '''Your Name'''
Please use the triple single quotes to make contact name bold, above

Please use '''3rd level headings''' for your main headings:
=== Key Accomplishments ===
* the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
* this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)

include the notoc option in the wiki code and use the "Reports 2009" category (see source of template for example)

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009

2010-02-15T19:22:26Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: New page: == Project Name == * Contact name: '''Your Name''' Please use the triple single quotes to make contact name bold, above Please use '''3rd level headings''' for your main headings: ===...

== Project Name ==

* Contact name: '''Your Name'''
Please use the triple single quotes to make contact name bold, above

Please use '''3rd level headings''' for your main headings:
=== Key Accomplishments ===
* the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period

=== Areas for Improvement ===
* any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help

=== Opportunities to Help ===
* list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report

=== Outlook for 2010 ===
* this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)

include the notoc option in the wiki code and use the "Reports 2009" category (see source of template for example)

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2009]]

New York Code Sprint 2010

2009-11-14T03:36:50Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Participation */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems (as done last year at the [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009]]). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

== Venue ==

The Open Planning Project and OpenGeo will be hosting the event this year, in a penthouse event room ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/philaestheta/3922525728/in/set-72157622375114194/ pic1], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4081335110/ pic2], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4080572085/ pic3], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4080570151/ pic4]) on the top floor of their offices ([http://maps.google.com/maps?q=148+Lafayette+Street+new+york Map]).

[http://openplans.org/ The Open Planning Project] 
148 Lafayette Street 
New York, New York 
10013, USA 
Telephone: 212.796.4220 

== Timing ==

Duration: Four days (Saturday to Tuesday) from approximately 9am-4pm

Dates: Dates are currently being decided. February and early March are again the candidate times, to provide hopefully the cheapest accommodation options.

== Sponsors ==

We will again be looking for sponsors to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each $750 sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

To sponsor, please contact Paul Ramsey (pramsey at cleverelephant dot ca) directly.

== Hotel ==

We are working on a room block at a hotel near the sprint site, more information as it becomes available.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to New York, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: lunches, dinners (?), travel for some sprinters (?), Saturday night social event (?).

== Communication ==

Please join the mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj)
* Frank Warmerdam (MapServer, GDAL, Proj)
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek (or someone like me)]] (liblas, anything touching MrSID, other stuff tbd)
* Steve Lime (MapServer)
* [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] (Mapserver)
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* Schuyler Erle (lives in Brooklyn, can host 1 or 2 guests)
* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the New York Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

== Social Events ==

* To be determined

== Getting to the Sprint ==

=== From Newark International ===

* Follow the signs to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_Newark Air Train]. Before going up the escalator, buy a ticket to New York, Penn Station at one of the machines.
* Take the Air Train to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport_(NJT_station) rail station] at the end, if you forgot to buy your rail ticket, you have another opportunity here (usually with a lineup).
* Catch a train to Penn Station (usually at platform 1/2), check the board.
* At Penn Station,
** leave the station and grab a taxi, or,
** leave the station and walk to 34th and 6th to pick up yellow line ((N) (Q) (R) and (W) trains) downtown to Canal St Station, walk from there, or,
** follow the signs in Penn to the blue line ((A) and (C) trains) and ride downtown to Canal St Station, walk from there.

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

User:Pnaciona

2009-10-23T03:03:37Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Contributions */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee mail dot com. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -6 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://mapserver.org/tutorial/index.html MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=20&sessionId=60&confId=1 Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

FOSS4G 2009 Code Sprint

2009-10-23T02:46:11Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* MapServer */

== Organizing Contacts ==

* Jody Garnett, Tyler Mitchell

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Venue ==
For map and more details see [[Image:FOSS4G_2009_Code_Sprint_Information.pdf|Info.pdf]]
* '''Date: Saturday 24 October''' (the day after the conference).
* '''Time:''' 9am-5pm (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=10&day=23&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=240&p2=250&p3=137&p4=136)
* '''Where:''' University of Technology Sydney – Ultimo Campus, Level 3, Building 6
Peter Johnson Building '''(Building 6)'''
Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building
702-730 Harris Street,
Ultimo, NSW 2007.
* '''Rooms:''' CB06.03.19, CB06.03.20, CB06.03.21
* '''[http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/location-maps/index.html online maps]''' and '''[http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/location-maps/location-dab-building.pdf building map] PDF (300kb)'''

More than 80 attendees are expected!

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

* http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
* http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
* Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

== Summary of Workgroups ==
List of Workgroups here, more info follows...
* PostGIS
* uDig & friends
* The desktop comparison tasks list
* OSGeo in general, especially Marketing & Education
* Geometry (note project info below, being held at different venue, on Sunday 25 October, '''the day after''' the other sprints)
* Live DVD
* OpenLayers
* MapServer
* Mapbender
* 52°North Web Processing Service + GRID

= Workgroups =
To participate, start a section below for your project.

== PostGIS ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* Paul Ramsey

'''Attending:'''
* Person 1
* Person 2

'''Goals:'''
* Bug fixes and clean-up for a 1.5 release.

== uDig & friends ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* [[User:Moovida | Andrea Antonello]]

'''Attending:'''
* [[User:Moovida | Andrea Antonello]]
* [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]
* add yourself here...

'''Goals:'''

* database datastores
* style editors
* define install/update mechanisms for plugin projects (JGrass, BeeGIS, Axios)
* mosaic support for udig
* rastersymbolizer style editor

== The desktop comparison tasks list ==

'''Attending, for which project'''
* uDig [[User:Silli | Silvia Franceschi]]
* QGis ?
* gvSig ?
* GRASS [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]], Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli
* JGISShell Andreas W. Bartels

(for inspiration of tasks, see [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Applications Applications])

'''Feel free to add ideas here:'''

* vector data visualization
** load a shapefile for quick visualization (with prj, without prj, with topology, without topology)
** load a particularly large shapefile
** load a dwg
** load a dxf (2D and 3D)
** ...

* vector data editing
** create new geometry layers
** add an attribute of the geometry as new column to the dataset
** show existing editing tools (snap, intersections, merge, union, subtract)
** vector analysis
** topologic analysis
** network analysis
** linear reference system
** symbology (images for points, hatch, themes, legend)
** labeling options
** ...

* raster data visualization
** load a tiff (GRASS: import vs register with r.external)
** load a jpg
** load an ecw
** load a Mrsid
** load a GRASS raster
** load a mosaic of images
** ...

* raster data editing
** map calculations on raster data
** cost surfaces
** hydro flow
** geomorphometry
** solar energy calculations
** ...

* databases
** SQL queries
** visualization of spatial data from PostGIS
** visualization of spatial data from SQLite
** visualization of spatial data from Oracle spatial
** visualization of spatial data from ArcSDE
** visualization of spatial data from MySQL
** visualization of spatial data from H2spatial
** create new datasets in the above databases
** convert between table with x,y[,z] and vector map
** ...

* web service visualization and query
** load a WMS dataset, query its information
** load a WFS dataset, query its information
** load and edit a WFS-T dataset
** load a WCS dataset
** WPS
** ...

* scripting engines
** batch mode executions of commands
** supported languages
** ...

* printing
** support for printing
** support for storing printing layouts
** ...

* other
** geocoding
** georeferencing
** creation of personalized buttons
** ...

=== See also ===
* Stefan Steiniger, Geoffrey J. Hay. Ecological Informatics 4 (2009) 183–195, Free and open source geographic information tools for landscape ecology. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.07.004 DOI] and [http://www.geo.unizh.ch/publications/sstein/sstein_freegitools_ecoinf2009.pdf preprint PDF])

== OSGeo in general, especially Marketing & Education ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* Tyler Mitchell

'''Attending:'''
* Arnulf Christl
* Daniel Kastl
* Cameron Shorter (discussing cross over with LiveDVD)
* ...

'''Goals:'''
For all those who are around during this day but not going to do coding and want to talk more generally about OSGeo directions, etc. Likely follow-up from [[FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather | BoF events]]
* Review marketing and outreach ideas and needs.
* Work on the OSGeo presentation, create derivateives for different presentation lenghts and audiences
* Compile, update and comit templates for presentations
* [[Talk:The Future of OSGeo]], collect and organize opinions from the [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-October/thread.html OSGeo Discuss] mailing list.
* Discuss requirements for the LiveDVD from Marketing and Education

== Geometry ==

'''DATE: SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER'''

'''Time: 10am - 4pm'''

'''Venue: Intersect, Level 12, 309 Kent St'''

This sprint will be held on Sunday 25 October at a different venue (Intersect). We ask everyone attending to add their name to the list below as we are limited to 12 people. First come, first served.

'''Coordinator:'''
* Ben Caradoc-Davies

'''Attending:'''
# Ben Caradoc-Davies
# Jody Garnett
# Andrea Aime
# Andrea Antonello
# Silvia Franceschi

'''Goals:'''
* Progress ISO 19107 / GML 3D geometry collaboration (OSGeom). See <tt><java-collab@lists.osgeo.org></tt> for more.

'''Plan:'''
Some subset of Markus Schneider's proposal:
# DONE - Remove all topological and spatial analysis methods in the interfaces from the SVN for now, so we can focus on sanitising the model.
# Add factories. I would like to add two factories similar to the ones in the deegree 3 SVN:
#* SFS geometries:
#** http://download.deegree.org/deegree3/nightly/core/javadoc/org/deegree/geometry/SimpleGeometryFactory.html
#* ISO 19107/GML 3
#** http://download.deegree.org/deegree3/nightly/core/javadoc/org/deegree/geometry/GeometryFactory.html
#* In deegree 3, these factories are bound to a JTS-based implementation. As we only have interfaces for the geometry types in the osgeom repository for now (and no implementations), I would create interfaces from the factories.
# Add a basic implementation that is just a bean representation without operations. We could finally start to add JUnit tests then.
# Add GML parsers/exporters. I understood that one may want to keep this aspect out of the repository, but I don't see how we could test the difficulties in representing GML geometries (e.g external xlinks) without this. It also would make setting up geometries for testing much easier. Maybe we could keep the GML parsing/exporting isolated from the rest of the code.
# Of course we would take on the operations subject again, when we find consensus here.

== Live DVD ==
'''Coordinator:''' Cameron Shorter

'''Attending:'''
* Ricardo Pinho
* .

Virtual attendees can join us at: irc://freenode.net#foss4g

'''Goals:'''
* Brainstorm ideas for improvements to the LiveDVD
* Set guidelines in place for build
** Documentation guidelines
** Desktop layout
* Target other distribution media

For specific ideas, add them to our issue tracker here: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?group=status&component=LiveDVD&order=priority

== OpenLayers ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* [[User:Ahocevar | Andreas Hocevar]]

'''Attending:'''
* [[User:Rdewit | Roald de Wit]]
* Bart van den Eijnden
* [[User:madair | Mike Adair]]
* Person 4

'''Goals:'''

OpenLayers bug fixes. Describe any additional goals here.

'''To prepare for the sprint, please create/update tickets (http://trac.openlayers.org) for stuff you want to work on, and add "foss4g09" in the Keywords form field of the ticket.'''

== MapServer ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]]

'''Attending:'''
* [[User: msmitherdc | Michael Smith ]]
* [[User:jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]
* Jeff Hamm
* ...

'''Participating through IRC (#mapserver):'''
* Steve Lime
* [[User: pnaciona | Perry Nacionales]]
* ...

'''Goals:'''

* Work on the 5.6.0 release, including:
** Testing the current beta/release candidate
** Bug fixes
** Release of 5.6.0-RC1 (depending on how beta4 went)
** Work on documentation

* Discuss new features, future work

== Mapbender ==
The target group for this (non-coding) sprint are software architects, geoportal operator, service broker, service provider, data provider.

'''Coordinator:'''
* Arnulf Christl

'''Attending:'''
* Person 1
* Person 2

'''Goals:'''
This group will not code software but rather have informal discussions about the road map and new requirements of the software Mapbender. Some work needs to be done to define and more importantly better communicate the unique selling point of Mapbender. It is currently the only Open Source software that ships with of the box features to deploy, maintain and operate large scale geo portals using nothing but browser interfaces.

== Georuby ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* Shoaib Burq

'''Attending:'''
* Person 1
* Person 2

'''Goals:'''
* http://github.com/nofxx/postgis_adapter/issues
* http://github.com/fragility/spatial_adapter/issues
* or just hack a cute app for the fun of it :-)
* take the code for 2009.foss4g.org and refactor the ruby helpers so that 2010 committee can use it

== QGIS / Mapserver ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* Richard Duivenvoorde / Jeff McKenna

'''Attending:'''
* Michael Smith
* Person 2

'''Goals:'''
* refine /make even better the mapserverexport plugin
* ideas:
** adding a 'url'-input in gui to be able to set the mapserver for the map file
** setting bbox per layer
** STATUS default true, DUMP default true??
** postgis layer stuff
** use label alignment from qgis
** font-file use? use font-size ?
** add some extra symbols OR use of symbol-size
** ?? use of current project instead of saved mapfile (??)
** XSLT from QGIS <-> Mapserver XML <-> MapServer Mapfile

== 52°North WPS + GRID ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* Bastian Schäffer

'''Attending:'''
* Niels Hoffmann
* Robert Gibb
* ...

'''Goals:'''
* Discussion of Future Developments
* Architecture draft
* ...

== Project ==
'''Coordinator:'''
* .

'''Attending:'''
* Person 1
* Person 2

'''Goals:'''

Describe goals ...

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

Toronto Code Sprint 2009

2009-02-24T14:36:41Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Gear */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems, see the [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009 Agenda]]. We have chosen a mid-North American location because this code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide) and many members of the "C Tribe" are clustered in the area. Toronto is also a major travel hub, for sprinters traveling from afar. Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

== Sponsors ==

We have received support from five sponsors, each providing a $500 sponsorship that will be put towards venue, internet and lunch costs.

Thanks to our sponsors!

* [http://www.greenwoodmap.com/ Rich Greenwood]
* [http://www.osgis.nl/index_en.htm OSGIS.nl]
* [http://www.coordinatesolutions.com Coordinate Solutions]
* [http://www.lizardtech.com/ LizardTech]
* [http://www.sjgeophysics.com/ SJ Geophysics]

The event budget is available [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plI7bw56S6qHPAj9OEsIMaQ here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to OSGeo.

== Timing ==

Where: '''Rainbow Room''', Radisson Admiral Waterfront Hotel, Toronto, Ontario

When: Saturday March 7 - Tuesday March 10, 2009.

Duration: Four days from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

[http://www.radisson.com/torontoca_admiral Radisson Hotel Admiral Toronto-Harbourfront] 
249 Queen's Quay West 
Toronto, Ontario 
M5J 2N5 , Canada 
Reservations: 1-888-201-1718 
Telephone: +01-416-203-3333 
Fax: +01-416-203-3100 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Radisson+Hotel+Admiral+Toronto-Harbourfront&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.337319,62.314453&ie=UTF8&ll=43.643156,-79.385662&spn=0.026428,0.030427&z=15 Map]

When reserving, please specify "OSGeo" as the block name. '''The block rate is $79/night.'''

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Toronto, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $160 to $400 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Meals. Dinners at least, lunches and coffee are covered by sponsors.

== Communication ==

Please join the mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (MapServer, Mapbuilder) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Frank Warmerdam (GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, MapServer, QGIS, OSGeo4W) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:tbonfort|Thomas Bonfort]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Howard Butler (MapServer, GeoDjango, GDAL, CS-Map, spatialreference.org) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer docs, MS4W) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Steve Lime (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer, GDAL/OGR) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:Aross|Andrew Ross]] (Had to change plans unfortunate can't attend)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek]] (GDAL & liblas) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:mrosen|Mike Rosen]] (GDAL & liblas) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:paragon|Leo Hsu and Regina Obe]] (PostGIS, GEOS, Mapserver) '''Can attend Saturday only'''
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS, TinyOWS) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Mark Cave-Ayland (PostGIS)
* [[User:JulienSam|Julien-Samuel Lacroix]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer docs) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:pierre|Pierre Racine]] ([http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?WKTRasterHomePage PostGIS WKT Raster]) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] (Mapserver, GeoMOOSE) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Dan Little (Mapserver, OpenLayers, GeoMOOSE) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Alan Boudreault (MapServer, GDAL/OGR) '''attendance confirmed'''

=== Present in spirit ===

If you can not make it to get to Toronto in person and you still want to actively participate in the sprint, there will be a chance to do it by joining the event on IRC ([irc://irc.freenode.net/tosprint #tosprint]). If you are interested in remote participation, feel free to add yourself below.

* [[User:mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] (GEOS, GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, Proj) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:szekerest|Tamas Szekeres]] (MapServer, GDAL/OGR) '''attendance confirmed'''

== Gear ==

* Extra items that would be useful (please sign up if you can bring)
** Wireless hub
** Wireless hub (Perry 1)
** Extension Cords (Pierre 1, Paul 1)
** Power Bars (Pierre 1, Paul 1)
** Ethernet Cables (Pierre 2 short, Paul 1 long)
** Projector
** Screen
** [http://www.pace.edu/emplibrary/EMC%20Flip%20Chart.jpg Flip Charts]
** Wired hubs -- mpg will bring 3, plus some cabling

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Toronto Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

== Social Events ==

* Saturday March 7th

4pm
Ice hockey game
Hershey Bears vs Toronto Marlies
@ Ricoh Coliseum
100 Princes' Blvd.
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=100+Princes+Boulevard,+Toronto,+ON+M6K,+Canada%E2%80%8E&sll=43.640237,-79.392271&sspn=0.03056,0.073214&ie=UTF8&ll=43.636821,-79.411583&spn=0.032053,0.073214&z=14&iwloc=addr map]

If you are interested please send a message to the 'tosprint' mailing list, as the tickets must be pre-ordered

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

Toronto Code Sprint 2009

2009-01-13T02:07:39Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Participation */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems. We have chosen a mid-North American location because this code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide) and many members of the "C Tribe" are clustered in the area. Toronto is also a major travel hub, for sprinters traveling from afar. Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

== Sponsors ==

We have received support from five sponsors, each providing a $500 sponsorship that will be put towards venue, internet and lunch costs.

Thanks to our sponsors!

* [http://www.greenwoodmap.com/ Rich Greenwood]
* [http://www.osgis.nl/index_en.htm OSGIS.nl]
* [http://www.coordinatesolutions.com Coordinate Solutions]
* [http://www.lizardtech.com/ LizardTech]
* [http://www.sjgeophysics.com/ SJ Geophysics]

The event budget is available [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plI7bw56S6qHPAj9OEsIMaQ here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to OSGeo.

== Timing ==

When: Saturday March 7 - Tuesday March 10, 2009.

Duration: Four days from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

[http://www.bondplace.ca/ Bond Place Hotel] 
65 Dundas Street East 
Toronto, Ontario 
M5B 2G8 
Canada 
Telephone: +01 416 362 6061 
Toll Free: 1 800 268 9390 
Fax: +01 416 360 6406 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bond+place+hotel&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=46.898798,78.398437&ie=UTF8&ei=uSc9SZaJJImsNou69e0I&cd=1&cid=43656195,-79378473,14991973577179198590&li=lmd&ll=43.657254,-79.378452&spn=0.042102,0.076561&z=14&iwloc=A Map]

When reserving, please specify "OSGeo" as the block name. There are 15 rooms under block name "OSGeo" or booking #12896. '''The block rate is $79/night.'''

Booking code "TEN" on the web site has an even lower rate ($75) than our block. There are a limited number of these internet specials.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Toronto, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $160 to $400 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Shared venue cost, $50 to $0 depending on whether we can arrange sponsors.
* Meals. Dinners at least, we may be able to cover lunches/morning snacks if we can find sponsors.

== Communication ==

Please join the mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (MapServer, Mapbuilder) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Frank Warmerdam (GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, MapServer, QGIS, OSGeo4W) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:tbonfort|Thomas Bonfort]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Howard Butler (MapServer, GeoDjango, GDAL, CS-Map, spatialreference.org) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer docs, MS4W) '''attendance confirmed''' (booked someone's couch)
* Steve Lime (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer, GDAL/OGR)
* [[User:assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer)
* [[User:Aross|Andrew Ross (or someone else from Ingres)]] (GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, CS-Map)
* Denise MacLeod (GEOS)
* [[User:Cthibert|Chuck Thibert]] (GEOS)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek]] (GDAL & liblas) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:paragon|Leo Hsu and Regina Obe]] (PostGIS, GEOS, Mapserver) '''Can attend Saturday only'''
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS, TinyOWS) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Stefan Steiniger (OpenJUMP, I know it's a Java project... but it would be a reason to visit Toronto, so let's see ;)
* Mark Cave-Ayland (PostGIS)
* [[User:JulienSam|Julien-Samuel Lacroix]] (MapServer)
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer docs) '''attendance confirmed'''

== Planning ==

* Extra items that would be useful (please sign up if you can bring)
** Wireless hub
** Wireless hub
** Projector
** Screen

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* Steve Lime has a double room, needs a roommate.
* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]

Toronto Code Sprint 2009

2009-01-12T22:24:30Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Participation */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems. We have chosen a mid-North American location because this code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide) and many members of the "C Tribe" are clustered in the area. Toronto is also a major travel hub, for sprinters traveling from afar. Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

== Sponsors ==

We have received support from five sponsors, each providing a $500 sponsorship that will be put towards venue, internet and lunch costs.

Thanks to our sponsors!

* [http://www.greenwoodmap.com/ Rich Greenwood]
* [http://www.osgis.nl/index_en.htm OSGIS.nl]
* [http://www.coordinatesolutions.com Coordinate Solutions]
* [http://www.lizardtech.com/ LizardTech]
* [http://www.sjgeophysics.com/ SJ Geophysics]

The event budget is available [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plI7bw56S6qHPAj9OEsIMaQ here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to OSGeo.

== Timing ==

When: Saturday March 7 - Tuesday March 10, 2009.

Duration: Four days from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

[http://www.bondplace.ca/ Bond Place Hotel] 
65 Dundas Street East 
Toronto, Ontario 
M5B 2G8 
Canada 
Telephone: +01 416 362 6061 
Toll Free: 1 800 268 9390 
Fax: +01 416 360 6406 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bond+place+hotel&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=46.898798,78.398437&ie=UTF8&ei=uSc9SZaJJImsNou69e0I&cd=1&cid=43656195,-79378473,14991973577179198590&li=lmd&ll=43.657254,-79.378452&spn=0.042102,0.076561&z=14&iwloc=A Map]

When reserving, please specify "OSGeo" as the block name. There are 15 rooms under block name "OSGeo" or booking #12896. '''The block rate is $79/night.'''

Booking code "TEN" on the web site has an even lower rate ($75) than our block. There are a limited number of these internet specials.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Toronto, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $160 to $400 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Shared venue cost, $50 to $0 depending on whether we can arrange sponsors.
* Meals. Dinners at least, we may be able to cover lunches/morning snacks if we can find sponsors.

== Communication ==

Please join the mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (MapServer, Mapbuilder) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Frank Warmerdam (GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, MapServer, QGIS, OSGeo4W) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:tbonfort|Thomas Bonfort]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Howard Butler (MapServer, GeoDjango, GDAL, CS-Map, spatialreference.org) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer docs, MS4W) '''attendance confirmed''' (booked someone's couch)
* Steve Lime (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer, GDAL/OGR)
* [[User:assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer)
* [[User:Aross|Andrew Ross (or someone else from Ingres)]] (GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, CS-Map)
* Denise MacLeod (GEOS)
* [[User:Cthibert|Chuck Thibert]] (GEOS)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek]] (GDAL & liblas) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:paragon|Leo Hsu and Regina Obe]] (PostGIS, GEOS, Mapserver) '''Can attend Saturday only'''
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS, TinyOWS) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Stefan Steiniger (OpenJUMP, I know it's a Java project... but it would be a reason to visit Toronto, so let's see ;)
* Mark Cave-Ayland (PostGIS)
* [[User:JulienSam|Julien-Samuel Lacroix]] (MapServer)
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer docs)

== Planning ==

* Extra items that would be useful (please sign up if you can bring)
** Wireless hub
** Wireless hub
** Projector
** Screen

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* Steve Lime has a double room, needs a roommate.
* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]

Twin Cities

2008-06-11T15:20:20Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Continuing Goals */

== Chapter ==
The Twin Cities, MN chapter of OSGeo is a rebranding and restructuring of the Twin Cities MapServer Users Group [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/MUGs/tcmug/ (TCMUG)]. Currently the TCMUG is organized using web and mailing list support through the MapServer resources hosted at the University of Minnesota [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/MUGs/tcmug/].
== History ==
The Twin Cities MapServer Users Group was formed alongside the organizing committee for [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ MUM3/OSG '05] in the Fall of 2004. TCMUG has met near monthly since that time with a mix of social gatherings and technical presentations hosted at various locations around the Twin Cities, MN Metropolitan Area. TCMUG is made up of people representing government, non-profit, academic, and private interests. Members of TCMUG are active in several areas within OSGeo. In addition, TCMUG has a strong presence in state and regional GIS initiatives through [http://metrogis.org MetroGIS], the [http://www.gis.state.mn.us/ Governor's Council on Geographic Information], and [http://www.mngislis.org Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium] as well as work with FGDC grant funded projects [http://openmnnd.org]. Members of TCMUG are active users and developers and have been a forum in the region for not just MapServer, but also many other Open Source GIS packages.

== Mission ==
The mission of the Twin Cities, MN chapter of OSGeo is to build upon the [http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html Mission and Goals] of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) by providing local networking and support opportunities and by advocating for Open Source GIS software and OSGeo initiatives through regional groups and conferences.

== Continuing Goals ==
* Continue to hold near monthly meetings
* Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
* Maintain an OSGeo presence at conferences -- in particular the [http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=307 Minnesota GIS/LIS annual conference]
* Help act as a breeding ground for new projects

== Near Term Goals ==
* Submit to become an official chapter of OSGeo
* Rebrand TCMUG as the Twin Cities, MN chapter of OSGeo
* Migrate organizational resources (web page, mailing list) from U of MN resources to OSGeo
== Reports ==
[[Twin_Cities_Chapter_Report_2007 2007 Annual Report]]

== Membership ==
There are currently 56 people subscribed to the TCMUG mailing list. A typical meeting has around 6-10 participants.

== Contact Information ==
* Join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tcmug TCMUG / Twin Cities OSGeo Chapter mailing list]
* Contact David Bitner 612-725-6156, bitner *at* dbspatial *dot* com

[[Category: Local Chapters]]

User:Pnaciona

2008-03-23T00:53:09Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Pericles Nacionales */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee mail dot com. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -6 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=20&sessionId=60&confId=1 Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

Marketing Committee

2008-03-23T00:52:01Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Committee Members */

'''This is the new name and home of the [[Promotion and Visibility Committee]].'''

== Committee Infrastructure ==
The committee Infrastructure currently comprises a Mailing List and regular meetings on IRC.

=== Regular Meeting ===
'''Next meeting scheduled for [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=11&year=2008&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 Tuesday March 11th at 22:00 UTC]. Watch out for summer time changes in the US!''' on ([irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo #osgeo]). [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client] (select #osgeo from the drop-down list, and type /nick YOURNAME, to set your nickname for use in the channel).

; Add agenda items here
* Logo updates
* GSoC 2008 Flyer ([http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Google's GSoC Flyers])

All, please move these points to the [[Marketing Meeting 2008.02.27]] protocol if they have been discussed in depth.
* GeoWeb 2008 update (two minutes, mpg)
* [[Case Studies]]
* discuss first draft of updated & new logos
* discuss spending money to appear at conferences, trade shows, etc.
* Budget in general
* Events in general
* Flyer for GSoC 2008, distribute broadly
* Swot Analysis

==== Agenda and Meeting Protocols ====
* [[Marketing Meeting 2008.02.27]]
* [[Marketing Meeting 2008.01.30]]
* [[Marketing Meeting 2008.01.16]]
* [[Marketing Meeting 2007.12.05]]
* [[Marketing Meeting 2007.11.21]]
* [[Marketing Meeting 2007.10.24]]
* [[Marketing Meeting 2007.10.10]]
* Also see [[VisCom Meetings]] for older ones

=== Mailing List ===
The Marketing Committee has a mailing list at marketing at lists.osgeo.org. To post a mail please first ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing subscribe]). The [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/ archive] of this mailing list is open to the public.

== Committee Members ==
Committee members are eligible to vote. The process to become Committee member is rather informal, just send a list to introduce yourself to the list, describe your interests and - please - attend to meetings.
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (chair)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]]
* [[User:Ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[User:Dan | Daniele Nascimento]]
* [[User: Torsten Brassat | Torsten Brassat]]
* [[User:Mpg | Michael Gerlek]]
* [[User:Pnaciona | Perry Nacionales]]

== Responsibilities ==
* Develop a [[Marketing Plan]]
** [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2007-October/001511.html Marketing Plan Discussion 0]
** [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2007-October/001542.html Marketing Plan Discussion I]]
** [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2007-October/001552.html Marketing Plan Discussion II]
** [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2007-November/001557.html Marketing Plan Discussion III]
** [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/2007-November/001582.html Marketing Target Discussion]
**[[Marketing proposal]]
* ''More to come...''

== Involvement ==
Everyone is welcome to work with this committee and contribute, whether or not you are a formal member of the committee. Please join the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing Marketing mailing list] and introduce yourself.

== Press Releases ==
The Marketing Committee oversees the issuing of press releases for the Foundation ([[Press Release Process]]). Got some [[News Queue | news]] you think is worthy of an OSGeo press release, or want to help translate some text? Let us know!
Past press releases:
* 6 March 2006 - [https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/open_source_geospatial_foundation_initial_press_release.html "OSGeo Created"]
* [[Press Release 2006-07-19 "OSGeo at 6-month mark"]]
* [http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/foss4g_conference_summary.html Press Release 2006-10-06 "FOSS4G 2006 Conference Summary"]
* [[Press_Release_2006-10-19 "Tyler selected as ED"]]
* [[Press_Release_2007-08-03 "Service Provider Directory Launched"]]

== Event Coordination ==
The Marketing Committee is responsible the Foundation's presence tradeshows, conferences, workshops, etc. We can coordinate the booth, supply materials, arrange for speakers, etc. Please see out [[Event Management]] page for more information.

Upcoming events are listed on the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Events Category:Events] page by adding the Category to the corresponding page.

== Open Issues ==
We have access to a [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ trac] system as task-management tool but are curently not actively using it.

* to be moved to trac:
** [[GenericOSGeoPresentation]]

== [[Library]] ==
It was planned to create an extensive library of presentations, white papers and other materials in the OSGeo Library at http://www.osgeo.org/library. Find more descriptions and links on the [[Library]] Page of this Wiki and get in contact through the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing Marketing Mailing List] if you need anything that you cannot find in the library.

== Columns ==
* [[GeoConnexion Column]]

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category: Marketing]]

Marketing Meeting 2008.01.16

2008-01-14T22:27:29Z

Wiki-Pnaciona:

-----
'''Please note that meeting times change!'''
-----

[[Marketing Committee]] meeting to be held on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=16&year=2008&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 Wednesday Jan. 16th, 2008 at 22:00 UTC] on ([irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo #osgeo]). [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client] (select #osgeo from the drop-down list, and type /nick YOURNAME, to set your nickname for use in the channel).

== Meeting Agenda 2008.01.16 ==
* Role call
* Assign scribe
* Review previous minutes ([[Marketing_Meeting_2007.12.05 | Previous meeting]])
* Review previous action items

=== New Business ===
* Update re: Marketing project (Arnulf/Jeroen)
* Review Marketing Budget 2008 (Tyler)
* Discuss events for 2008 - bring your suggestions or post to bottom of this page
* ''please add more''

=== Old Business ===
* Define deliverables for [[Marketing proposal]]
* Continue definition of [[OSGeo Mission]], Vision and Value Statements for marketing purposes
* Start adding the [[SWOT Analysis]] content for the future marketing plan
* Discuss and (hopefully) agree on the [[Marketing proposal]]
* Boost spreading OSGeo's name (how to?)
* Produce HQ paper version of project / committee info sheets
* Create an OSGeo CD/DVD with all projects to give away together with HQ paper version of project / committee info sheets
* Actively plan and commit to more conferences, trade fairs, events at large
* more?

[[Category: Marketing]]

FOSS4G2007 Workshops

2007-02-12T22:35:35Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Members */

== FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Committee ==

=== Members ===

* Jeff McKenna (chair)
* Jason Birch
* Aaron Racicot
* Olivier Ertz
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Dpatton Dave Patton]
* [[User:Pnaciona | Perry Nacionales]]

=== Next Committee Meeting ===
* date: 2007/02/09 
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2007&month=2&day=2&hour=21&min=30&sec=0 1:30PM PST] 
* IRC Channel: #foss4g2007 on irc.freenode.net (or via Web: http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi)
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Old Business
## review Action Items from 2007/02/02 meeting:
### DONE: Jason: send meeting reminders 1 day and 1 hour before meetings
### ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
### DONE: Jason: send out message to re-review the call and requirements by noon tomorrow PST
### ACTION: Dave: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
### DONE: Dave: email Lorenzo re attending next week's meeting to discuss use of LiveCD
### DONE: Dave: review action items from earlier in the meeting
### DONE: Dave: prepare agenda for next week's meeting
## Status of help from Jody
## need a way to track the submissions like last year's INDICO system
## possibility of some sort of "facility" at the conference where workshop presenters can arrive and get help (financially and technically) getting copies, CD's, etc
## video of conference - is there an 'external resource' that could be used to manage this?
## Ominiverdi LiveCD: [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000017.html mailing list email from Lorenzo]
# New Business
## nominate and confirm new committee chair
## review committee membership
## Status of workshop call, announcements, and feedback so far
## Policies & Procedures for workshop materials:
### who pays for workshop materials
### financial support by conference for workshop materials preparation
### guidelines for workshop materials (format, length, etc)
## Guidelines for types of workshop: from #osgeo, 2007/02/06 <pre>12:54:38 jgarnett: aside: #geoserver meeting trying to come up with workshop topics 12:54:59 jgarnett: how "advanced" should workshops go?</pre>
## Specs for rental computers
## Other New Business

=== Previous Committee Meetings ===
==== 2007/02/02 ====
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-02-02.log IRC Log]
* Action Items arising from meeting:
** ACTION: Jason: send meeting reminders 1 day and 1 hour before meetings
** ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
** ACTION: Jason: send out message to re-review the call and requirements by noon tomorrow PST
** ACTION: -----: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
** ACTION: Dave: email Lorenzo re attending next week's meeting to discuss use of LiveCD
** ACTION: Dave: review action items from earlier in the meeting
** ACTION: Dave: prepare agenda for next week's meeting
* Agenda:
# Select Meeting chair
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Old Business (based on [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-01-26.log Log from 2007/01/26 meeting])
## Jason: did you get in contact with Jody (jgarnett)?
## who will send out meeting reminders, and when
## Aaron: did you get in contact with David Percy?
## do we have a "set of questions/needs for the full committee to answer"?
## theme rooms, and creating tracks after workshop submissions received
## in 2006, workshops were 3.5 hours, including 30 minute break
## What about podcast/video of the workshops and presentations
## workshop details needed before call for abstracts (room sizes, number of machines, etc.)
## need a way to track the submissions like last year's INDICO system
## Olivier: did you contact the 2006 local committee re setting up an instance of INDICO for use for 2007 (for workshop submission tracking)?
## possibilities re adding more workshop time at the start/end of the conference?
# New Business
## for any "to do" items that come up in meetings, use "ACTION: name" on IRC to flag who is to take care of that item
## review Call For Workshops Content:
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Hyperbole Hyperbole]
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Submission_Requirements Submission Requirements]
## Ominiverdi LiveCD: [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000017.html mailing list email from Lorenzo]
## date when call for workshops will be ready for announcement
## rooms for workshops - establish minimum allocations [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000019.html Workshop Rooms]
## computer resources - current availability, and desired target [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000022.html Computers]

==== 2007/01/26 ====
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-01-26.log IRC Log]
* Agenda: There was no set agenda

== FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Notes ==

=== Call For Workshops Content ===

==== Hyperbole ====

The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2007 conference, being held September 24-27 in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This is your chance to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day or ninety minute lab or classroom format. Half-day workshops will be delivered on Monday, September 24 (the Workshops day), while the ninety minute workshops will run concurrently with the presentations during the remainder of the conference.

While we are open to workshops on a wide range of topics, we strongly encourage workshop submissions on the following topics:

* Practical Introduction to ___________
* Interoperability
* NeoGeography and NovelGeography
* Using a Software Stack
* 3D Worlds

In the tradition of previous FOSS4G events, we expect that the majority of workshops will be "hands on", with participants seated in front computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion.

Be prepared to spend considerable effort in creating your workshop. Past experience has shown that a high quality workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of presentation time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a 'workbook', CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, workshop presenters will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:

* free registration for delivering a half-day workshop
* half-price registration for delivering a 90-minute workshop

Because of limited space, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, one for each length format.

Please visit the workshops page on our website to download the submission templates and instructions for sending them in:

http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops.html

The deadline for workshop submissions is February 28, 2007. Submit early, submit often!

==== Submission Requirements ====
''This is in-progress, and is not official.''
''Once the submission requirements are finalized, they will be posted on the FOSS4G2007 website, along with instructions on how to make your workshop submission.''

For your workshop submission to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2007 Conference, please fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

'''Workshop Title (70 characters):'''

'''Short Description (50 words):'''

'''Long Description (400 words):'''

'''Format (choose one):'''
* 3 hour lab (with computers), on Monday September 24th (Workshops day)
* 3 hour class (no computers), on Monday September 24th (Workshops day)
* 1.5 hour lab (with computers), to run during the conference (September 25-27)
* 1.5 hour class (no computers), to run during the conference (September 25-27)

'''Technical Requirements (choose one):'''
* Provided Windows XP workstations
* Provided Linux VMWare machine
* Instructor-provided LiveCD
* Participants bring their own Laptop
* None

'''User Level (choose one):'''
* Beginner
* Advanced
* Developer

'''User Prerequisites (platform, applications, development languages, etc.):'''

'''Presenter Name:'''

'''Presenter Affiliation (if any):'''

'''Presenter Coordinates (Country):'''

'''Presenter Biography (200 words):'''

'''Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:''' 
This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

----

=== Items for Discussion ===

==== Workshop Duration and Scheduling ====

http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview.html

==== Hardware ====

* 40 computers in the rental budget
* another 20 slated as loaners from Nanaimo
* other options? (bring-your-own etc.)

==== Room Availability ====

?

==== Call for Abstracts ====

* by when?
* interface for abstract submission? (something similar to FOSS4G2006's Indico?)

==== Software Installation ====
* LiveCD for Linux
* MS4W installer for Windows
* other?
* attendees come with laptops and software installed?

==== Other ====
* local person to deal with venue's tech staff?

==== Questions for Organising Committee ====

- Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

==== Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note) ====

* overcrowded workshops are bad
* registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
* LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
* grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)

FOSS4G2007 Workshops

2007-02-09T22:44:13Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Members */

== FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Committee ==

=== Members ===

* Jeff McKenna (chair)
* Jason Birch
* Aaron Racicot
* Olivier Ertz
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/User:Dpatton Dave Patton]
* Perry Nacionales

=== Next Committee Meeting ===
* date: 2007/02/09 
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2007&month=2&day=2&hour=21&min=30&sec=0 1:30PM PST] 
* IRC Channel: #foss4g2007 on irc.freenode.net (or via Web: http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi)
* Agenda:
# Select chair for this meeting
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Old Business
## review Action Items from 2007/02/02 meeting:
### DONE: Jason: send meeting reminders 1 day and 1 hour before meetings
### ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
### DONE: Jason: send out message to re-review the call and requirements by noon tomorrow PST
### ACTION: Dave: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
### DONE: Dave: email Lorenzo re attending next week's meeting to discuss use of LiveCD
### DONE: Dave: review action items from earlier in the meeting
### DONE: Dave: prepare agenda for next week's meeting
## Status of help from Jody
## need a way to track the submissions like last year's INDICO system
## possibility of some sort of "facility" at the conference where workshop presenters can arrive and get help (financially and technically) getting copies, CD's, etc
## video of conference - is there an 'external resource' that could be used to manage this?
## Ominiverdi LiveCD: [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000017.html mailing list email from Lorenzo]
# New Business
## nominate and confirm new committee chair
## review committee membership
## Status of workshop call, announcements, and feedback so far
## Policies & Procedures for workshop materials:
### who pays for workshop materials
### financial support by conference for workshop materials preparation
### guidelines for workshop materials (format, length, etc)
## Guidelines for types of workshop: from #osgeo, 2007/02/06 <pre>12:54:38 jgarnett: aside: #geoserver meeting trying to come up with workshop topics 12:54:59 jgarnett: how "advanced" should workshops go?</pre>
## Specs for rental computers
## Other New Business

=== Previous Committee Meetings ===
==== 2007/02/02 ====
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-02-02.log IRC Log]
* Action Items arising from meeting:
** ACTION: Jason: send meeting reminders 1 day and 1 hour before meetings
** ACTION: Aaron: talk to David Percy before next meeting
** ACTION: Jason: send out message to re-review the call and requirements by noon tomorrow PST
** ACTION: -----: need to find out from Olivier re use of INDICO
** ACTION: Dave: email Lorenzo re attending next week's meeting to discuss use of LiveCD
** ACTION: Dave: review action items from earlier in the meeting
** ACTION: Dave: prepare agenda for next week's meeting
* Agenda:
# Select Meeting chair
# Set date/time for next meeting
# Old Business (based on [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-01-26.log Log from 2007/01/26 meeting])
## Jason: did you get in contact with Jody (jgarnett)?
## who will send out meeting reminders, and when
## Aaron: did you get in contact with David Percy?
## do we have a "set of questions/needs for the full committee to answer"?
## theme rooms, and creating tracks after workshop submissions received
## in 2006, workshops were 3.5 hours, including 30 minute break
## What about podcast/video of the workshops and presentations
## workshop details needed before call for abstracts (room sizes, number of machines, etc.)
## need a way to track the submissions like last year's INDICO system
## Olivier: did you contact the 2006 local committee re setting up an instance of INDICO for use for 2007 (for workshop submission tracking)?
## possibilities re adding more workshop time at the start/end of the conference?
# New Business
## for any "to do" items that come up in meetings, use "ACTION: name" on IRC to flag who is to take care of that item
## review Call For Workshops Content:
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Hyperbole Hyperbole]
### [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Submission_Requirements Submission Requirements]
## Ominiverdi LiveCD: [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000017.html mailing list email from Lorenzo]
## date when call for workshops will be ready for announcement
## rooms for workshops - establish minimum allocations [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000019.html Workshop Rooms]
## computer resources - current availability, and desired target [http://lists.refractions.net/pipermail/foss4g2007-workshops/2007-January/000022.html Computers]

==== 2007/01/26 ====
* [http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g2007/%23foss4g2007.2007-01-26.log IRC Log]
* Agenda: There was no set agenda

== FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Notes ==

=== Call For Workshops Content ===

==== Hyperbole ====

The FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference is pleased to announce the Call for Workshops for the 2007 conference, being held September 24-27 in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a place for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial to get a full-immersion experience in both established and leading edge geospatial technologies.

This is your chance to showcase your favorite application, integration solution, or other topic. You will use your superior classroom skills to lead a group of attendees through your chosen topic in either a half-day or ninety minute lab or classroom format. Half-day workshops will be delivered on Monday, September 24 (the Workshops day), while the ninety minute workshops will run concurrently with the presentations during the remainder of the conference.

While we are open to workshops on a wide range of topics, we strongly encourage workshop submissions on the following topics:

* Practical Introduction to ___________
* Interoperability
* NeoGeography and NovelGeography
* Using a Software Stack
* 3D Worlds

In the tradition of previous FOSS4G events, we expect that the majority of workshops will be "hands on", with participants seated in front computers and able to follow along with the instructor, working directly with the software and applications under discussion.

Be prepared to spend considerable effort in creating your workshop. Past experience has shown that a high quality workshop requires about three days of preparation for each hour of presentation time. As part of this preparation you will be expected to develop material for attendees to take away with them, such as handouts, a 'workbook', CDROM, etc.

In recognition of this effort, workshop presenters will receive a reduction in the price of conference registration:

* free registration for delivering a half-day workshop
* half-price registration for delivering a 90-minute workshop

Because of limited space, you may want to consider submitting two versions of your topic, one for each length format.

Please visit the workshops page on our website to download the submission templates and instructions for sending them in:

http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops.html

The deadline for workshop submissions is February 28, 2007. Submit early, submit often!

==== Submission Requirements ====
''This is in-progress, and is not official.''
''Once the submission requirements are finalized, they will be posted on the FOSS4G2007 website, along with instructions on how to make your workshop submission.''

For your workshop submission to be considered for the Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2007 Conference, please fill out the following fields as clearly as possible. All workshops are to be delivered in English.

'''Workshop Title (70 characters):'''

'''Short Description (50 words):'''

'''Long Description (400 words):'''

'''Format (choose one):'''
* 3 hour lab (with computers), on Monday September 24th (Workshops day)
* 3 hour class (no computers), on Monday September 24th (Workshops day)
* 1.5 hour lab (with computers), to run during the conference (September 25-27)
* 1.5 hour class (no computers), to run during the conference (September 25-27)

'''Technical Requirements (choose one):'''
* Provided Windows XP workstations
* Provided Linux VMWare machine
* Instructor-provided LiveCD
* Participants bring their own Laptop
* None

'''User Level (choose one):'''
* Beginner
* Advanced
* Developer

'''User Prerequisites (platform, applications, development languages, etc.):'''

'''Presenter Name:'''

'''Presenter Affiliation (if any):'''

'''Presenter Coordinates (Country):'''

'''Presenter Biography (200 words):'''

'''Links to any material relevant to your workshop submission:''' 
This could include things such as slides used in this or similar workshops that you have previously presented, additional biographical material, etc.

----

=== Items for Discussion ===

==== Workshop Duration and Scheduling ====

http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview.html

==== Hardware ====

* 40 computers in the rental budget
* another 20 slated as loaners from Nanaimo
* other options? (bring-your-own etc.)

==== Room Availability ====

?

==== Call for Abstracts ====

* by when?
* interface for abstract submission? (something similar to FOSS4G2006's Indico?)

==== Software Installation ====
* LiveCD for Linux
* MS4W installer for Windows
* other?
* attendees come with laptops and software installed?

==== Other ====
* local person to deal with venue's tech staff?

==== Questions for Organising Committee ====

- Number and dimension of rooms, tables (how many PCs /people can we fit in a room)

==== Feedback from Past Conferences (things to note) ====

* overcrowded workshops are bad
* registrants could possibly list their "top 4" workshop selections
* LiveCD for linux workshops very successful
* grouping workshops by room "theme" successful (MapServer room, GRASS room, ...)

Event Plan 2007

2007-02-01T17:21:22Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Which Major Events in '07? */

This page describes how VisCom will manage events for 2007, including a budget plan to be submitted to the board, as per our 16th meeting.

=== Types of Events ===

With respect to OSGeo's level participation there are three kinds of events in the world:

* A "Major Event" is where OSGeo is a formal sponsor of some sort. We host a booth, have multiple speakers, do workshops, etc. VisCom will be proactive in identifying these opportunities and will be significantly involved in working with the Event Owner to make it be a success. Funding will be provided by VisCom to help defray costs, but it is expected that major funding will be available from sponsors or the event organizers, e.g. booth space. These are considered "strategic" opportunities for us, and so we should understand well our target audience and our messages. There are only a few such events per year, and they are planned well in advance.

* A "Regular Event" is where there are people from OSGeo speaking or doing workshops, but we're not an actual sponsor. VisCom can lend a hand in lining up speakers and whatnot, but we don't have a booth. These events occur throughout the year at seemingly random intervals. VisCom might proactively prod people to participate, esp. if the actual event organizer contacts OSGeo looking for us to take part. VisCom may be able to some small funding, e.g. for travel or printing, on an as-needed basis. There will be several such events per year.

* A "Local Event" is where a group of OSGeo members coordinate to host some level of activity at a local event -- it might be a booth, or a session, or a workshop, etc. VisCom will support this by providing small funding amounts for things like brochures, posters, etc, but the bulk of the costs will be provided by the local chapter and/or sponsorships. There will be several such events per year.

(Note that FOSS4G is a separate category unto itself. That event is run by OSGeo but not via VisCom, so we won't consider it here.)

=== Event Participation Process and Event Owners ===

# Events will come to VisCom's attention in one of three ways. Major Events will be identified in advance by the VisCom team. Regular and Local Event opportunities may be identified by OSGeo members or the event organizers may contact OSGeo directly looking for our participation.
# An Event Owner will be assigned. This person will be responsible for coordinating OSGeo's presence and participation at the event [see page elsewhere]. Depending on the size of the event, the Event Owner might just be the sole speaker or the Event Owner might have charge of recruiting other OSGeo members to do booth duty and give workshops.
# The Event Owner does whatever pre-event coordination is required. If required, funding assistance is requested from VisCom [we need a stock form / set of criteria/questions for this]. Other external funding or sponsorship opportunities are identified, as required. VisCom provides assistance to the Event Owner for things like graphics, T-shirts, collateral, etc.
# The Event occurs!
# The Event Owner provides a report back to VisCom. This may include things like a list of what OSGeo members participated and in what capacities, copies of whatever presentations were given (for the OSGeo library), breakdown of costs incurred (so we can help track and plan for future events), etc.

=== A Note on Limitations ===

The two limiting factors in deciding what events we do are the monetary cost and resource cost. Some thoughts on this:

* It is important to realize that the resource cost is not insignificant: for example, even if someone were to donate booth space for us at a big event, we'd still need to staff the booth and provide speakers and such.

* While we hope to sometimes be able rely on companies donating the cost of a booth, this is hard to rely on for the purposes of doing a budget and planning in advance our presence at big events.

=== Which Major Events in '07? ===

* '''Location Intelligence''' -- focus is on business-level work; opportunities for us to network, talk, work with current and future players in the geo field, esp. those of not yet tuned into the open source message
** underway, owned by Tyler

* '''Where 2.0''' -- focus is on whiz-bang / emerging tech; opportunities for us to network, talk, work with key players in the field, esp. those of high-caliber
** planning underway, owned by mpg

* '''OSCON''' -- focus on other, non-geo open source projects; opportunities for cross-fertilization and developer-level networking
** underway, owned by Aaron

* '''GITA''' -- a large/mainstream GIS event; focus on "regular" GIS apps and workflows; target audience is "regular" GIS folks who we can educate about OS methods and solutions
** underway, tentatively owned by DaveM

* '''InterGeo''' -- a European event; audience could be any of the above, depending on actual event type; continues to make sure we don't focus only on North America
** underway, owned by Arnulf

* '''to be determined -- an event in Africa, Asia, Australia, or South America; audience could be any of the above 1-4, depending on actual event type; continues to make sure we don't focus only on North America and Europe; opportunities to network and spread the gospel of OSGeo everywhere
** underway, tentatively owned by Venka

=== Budget Plan for 2007 ===

VisCom will humbly petition the Board for $85,000 for our 2007 budget.

The breakdown of the $85K is:
* $50K for funding of ~5 Major events
* $25K for funding of ~10 Regular events
* $10K for funding of ~10 Local events

We explicitly plan to use sponsorships, donations, etc, to defray the costs of the major events. This will be done in cooperation with the FunCom as required.

Note also that the three items of "50K for 5", etc, does not imply "10K for each of 5 events"; VisCom will juggle things around as required.

=== To Do List ===

* send budget to board for ratification
* ping DaveM re: GITA
* ping Venka re: Asia event
* add Owner field to event calender
* update Event Owner / Event Management pages; use LisaL's notes on How To Have An Event to make a Big Book?
* ???

User:Pnaciona

2007-01-30T20:10:35Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Contributions */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

In addition to being an OSGeo member, Perry is currently (2006-2007) the vice chair of Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee of the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation for Earth Science Information Partners].

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -6 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=20&sessionId=60&confId=1 Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

User:Pnaciona

2007-01-30T20:10:00Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Contributions */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

In addition to being an OSGeo member, Perry is currently (2006-2007) the vice chair of Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee of the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation for Earth Science Information Partners].

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -6 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=20&sessionId=60&confId=1] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

User:Pnaciona

2007-01-30T20:05:56Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Pericles Nacionales */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

In addition to being an OSGeo member, Perry is currently (2006-2007) the vice chair of Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee of the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation for Earth Science Information Partners].

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -6 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_MapServer Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

FOSS4G2006 Education BOF minutes

2006-09-12T17:19:22Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Minutes from the edu BOF at FOSS4G 2006 */

== Minutes from the edu BOF at FOSS4G 2006 ==

* Present:
** Ari Jolma(*), Dan Ames, Helena Mitasova(*), Ned Horning(*), Seppo Kaitala, Venka Raghavan(*), Markus Neteler(*), Pericles Nacionales(*), Przemyslaw Bojczuk, Marco Ciolli, Teemu Kokkonen
(*) members

* Agenda
** Review of edu tasks
** Things that are going on
** Educational project

* Things that could/should be done

** Conference tutorials as starting points?
*** Licence?

** Organize review of educational materials
*** Certification criteria

** Describe "best practices"
***

** Describe levels of FOSS4G know-how required from students
*** Certification of curricula
*** GISCI.org
*** what software tools

** FOSS4G papers into a scientific journal (special issue?)
*** IJ of geoinformatics www.j-geoinfo.net

User:Pnaciona

2006-08-30T19:52:30Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Contributions */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

In addition to being an OSGeo member, Perry is currently (2006-2007) the vice chair of Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee of the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation for Earth Science Information Partners].

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -5 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_MapServer Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

OSGeo at FOSS4G2006

2006-08-30T17:09:52Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Staff Plan */

= General =
* FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. This conference will unite the MapServer, GRASS, EOGEO, and other Open Source communities at an international venue.
* See http://www.foss4g2006.org/

== To Do ==
* What is to be done?
* Will OSGeo have booth space, or do we need to ask the organisers about it?
* Will we want to distrib brochures, flyers if so how to produce them.
* Do people who are attending not have t-shirts and how can they get them.
* Do we want a demo CD to hand out, during presentations if nothing else
* Demofest, to we want to clump togehter, or stange interoptability between products?
* Theme, do we want to have a point?

== OSGeo related talks and sessions ==

=== Workshops ===

* Several [http://www.foss4g2006.org/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1&showDate=all&showSession=all&detailLevel=contribution&viewMode=parallel workshops] are running

Presenter: Paul Spencer, DM Solutions Group,Robert Bray, Autodesk; Zak James, DM Solutions Group
Title of Presentation: MapGuide Open Source Users Workshop
Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 09:00 – 12:30
Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

Presenter: Robert Bray, Autodesk
Title of Presentation: Advanced MapGuide Open Source Development
Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 14:00 – 17:30
Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

Presenter: Arnulf Christl, CCGIS
Title of Presentation: Mapbender Workshop
Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 14:00 – 18:15
Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

=== BOFs ===
When and where?

* ''Binary Distribution Builders'' by FrankW (submitted)
* ''Public Geodata BOF'' by Jo (submitted)
* ''Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard'' by Schuyler
* ''Education committee BoF '' proposed by Ari (will happen Tuesday at 18.00, meet at GRASS workshop)
* ''GeoTools is 10 years old'', Birthday BOF
* ''ka-map/openLayers merging discussions'' by Lorenzo Becchi (will happen Wednesday, 18:00-20:00)(more [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/AJAX_WebMapping_Project_Request#foss4g2006_conference])
* ''Perl BoF'' proposed by Ari (Thursday lunch?)
* ''Mobile GIS reloaded'' proposed by Silke Reimer, Tim Bowden and Mateusz Loskot

=== Keynotes ===

* Frank Warmerdam
* Gary Lang
Presenter: Gary Lang
Title of Presentation: Welcome & Opening Conference Plenary
Date/Time: Wednesday, 13 September, 10:45 – 11:30
Location: Amphimax
Abstract:. Welcome & Opening Conference Plenary

=== Talk Presentations ===

* Jo is doing a talk "Have a Nice Metadata" about the work the [[Geodata Committee]] has been doing on simplest-useful-thing metadata models and exchange interfaces
* Chris is doing 'Architecting Participation for GeoSpatial Data', touching on geodata committee topics
* Justin is doing a talk on 'GeoServer: a platform for open web services', which will certainly touch on some GeoTools topics.
* '''Please add your talk title / topic here - there must be dozens, right?'''

=== Breakout session ideas ===
* Geospatial Metadata Syndication - see [[Simple Catalog Interface]]
* Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile

== People planning to attend ==
The OSGeo booth will be a place where most OSGeo folks will go to at one time or another. Ideally we have full coverage of every project by a representative of that project at all times at the booth. To get things organized just a bit we need to have some people at the booth at all times. Please add yourself to the list, even if it is for one morning or evening only so that we can get an overview where it might be critical. Most traffic will be during the breaks and there will be lots of time to chat with others also hangin out at the booth during all those boring sessions going on. So please feel free to drop by.

For questions, contact Arnulf Christl (mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org) or Tina Mena, tina.mena@autodesk.com.

=== Staff Plan ===
{| border=1
! Day of week !! Monday!!Tuesday!!evening!!Wednesday!!evening!!Thursday!!evening!!Friday!!pack in
|-
! Date || 09.12 || 09.13 || || 09.14 || || 09.15 || || 09.16 ||
|-
! Time || 15:00-|| 7:30- ||-18:00 || 7:30- ||-18:00 || 7:30- || -18:00|| 7:30- || -16:00
|-
! Todo ||setup || booth ||booth ||booth || booth ||booth || booth || booth || pack in
|-
! Arnulf Christl (VisCom) || X || o || o || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
! Steve Lime (MapServer) || || || || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Jody Garnett (GeoTools) || || || || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Jo Walsh (Geodata) || || || || || o || || o || ||
|-
! Puneet Kishor (Education) || || || o || || o || o || || o ||
|-
! Uli Rothstein (Mapbender) || || || || X || o || X || o || X || X
|-
! Astrid Emde (Mapbender, Edu) || || || || o || X || o || X || o ||
|-
! Michaela Schneeberger (MapGuideOS)|| || X || X || o || X || o || X || o ||
|-
! Frank Warmerdam (GDAL/OGR) || || || || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Perry Nacionales (MapServer, other) || x || o || || x || || o || o || o ||
|-
! Chris Holmes (GeoTools) || || x || || o || || x || || ||
|-
! Brent Owens (GeoTools) || || || || || x || o || o || x ||
|-
! Justin Deoliveira (GeoTools) || || x || || o || x || || o || ||
|-
! Add your name (project) || || o || o || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Responsible staff (X) || 1 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 2
|}
; Legend
:'''X''' = will be there all time
:'''x''' = will be there most of the time
:'''o''' = will be there during the breaks

[[Category:Events]]

OSGeo at FOSS4G2006

2006-08-29T22:59:25Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Staff Plan */

= General =
* FOSS4G 2006 - Open Source Geospatial Communities JOINT CONFERENCE - September 12-15 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland. This conference will unite the MapServer, GRASS, EOGEO, and other Open Source communities at an international venue.
* See http://www.foss4g2006.org/

== To Do ==
* What is to be done?
* Will OSGeo have booth space, or do we need to ask the organisers about it?
* Will we want to distrib brochures, flyers if so how to produce them.
* Do people who are attending not have t-shirts and how can they get them.
* Do we want a demo CD to hand out, during presentations if nothing else
* Demofest, to we want to clump togehter, or stange interoptability between products?
* Theme, do we want to have a point?

== OSGeo related talks and sessions ==

=== Workshops ===

* Several [http://www.foss4g2006.org/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1&showDate=all&showSession=all&detailLevel=contribution&viewMode=parallel workshops] are running

Presenter: Paul Spencer, DM Solutions Group,Robert Bray, Autodesk; Zak James, DM Solutions Group
Title of Presentation: MapGuide Open Source Users Workshop
Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 09:00 – 12:30
Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

Presenter: Robert Bray, Autodesk
Title of Presentation: Advanced MapGuide Open Source Development
Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 14:00 – 17:30
Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

Presenter: Arnulf Christl, CCGIS
Title of Presentation: Mapbender Workshop
Date/Time: Tuesday, 12 September, 14:00 – 18:15
Location: Amphipole (Pol 189)

=== BOFs ===
When and where?

* ''Binary Distribution Builders'' by FrankW (submitted)
* ''Public Geodata BOF'' by Jo (submitted)
* ''Towards a Web Map Tiling Standard'' by Schuyler
* ''Education committee BoF '' proposed by Ari (will happen Tuesday at 18.00, meet at GRASS workshop)
* ''GeoTools is 10 years old'', Birthday BOF
* ''ka-map/openLayers merging discussions'' by Lorenzo Becchi (will happen Wednesday, 18:00-20:00)(more [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/AJAX_WebMapping_Project_Request#foss4g2006_conference])
* ''Perl BoF'' proposed by Ari (Thursday lunch?)
* ''Mobile GIS reloaded'' proposed by Silke Reimer, Tim Bowden and Mateusz Loskot

=== Keynotes ===

* Frank Warmerdam
* Gary Lang
Presenter: Gary Lang
Title of Presentation: Welcome & Opening Conference Plenary
Date/Time: Wednesday, 13 September, 10:45 – 11:30
Location: Amphimax
Abstract:. Welcome & Opening Conference Plenary

=== Talk Presentations ===

* Jo is doing a talk "Have a Nice Metadata" about the work the [[Geodata Committee]] has been doing on simplest-useful-thing metadata models and exchange interfaces
* '''Please add your talk title / topic here - there must be dozens, right?'''

=== Breakout session ideas ===
* Geospatial Metadata Syndication - see [[Simple Catalog Interface]]
* Tiling WMS, some talk of GeoServer and uDig implementation of GetTile

== People planning to attend ==
The OSGeo booth will be a place where most OSGeo folks will go to at one time or another. Ideally we have full coverage of every project by a representative of that project at all times at the booth. To get things organized just a bit we need to have some people at the booth at all times. Please add yourself to the list, even if it is for one morning or evening only so that we can get an overview where it might be critical. Most traffic will be during the breaks and there will be lots of time to chat with others also hangin out at the booth during all those boring sessions going on. So please feel free to drop by.

For questions, contact Arnulf Christl (mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org) or Tina Mena, tina.mena@autodesk.com.

=== Staff Plan ===
{| border=1
! Day of week !! Monday!!Tuesday!!evening!!Wednesday!!evening!!Thursday!!evening!!Friday!!pack in
|-
! Date || 09.12 || 09.13 || || 09.14 || || 09.15 || || 09.16 ||
|-
! Time || 15:00-|| 7:30- ||-18:00 || 7:30- ||-18:00 || 7:30- || -18:00|| 7:30- || -16:00
|-
! Todo ||setup || booth ||booth ||booth || booth ||booth || booth || booth || pack in
|-
! Arnulf Christl (VisCom) || X || o || o || X || X || X || X || X || X
|-
! Steve Lime (MapServer) || || || || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Jody Garnett (GeoTools) || || || || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Jo Walsh (Geodata) || || || || || o || || o || ||
|-
! Puneet Kishor (Education) || || || o || || o || o || || o ||
|-
! Uli Rothstein (Mapbender) || || || || X || o || X || o || X || X
|-
! Astrid Emde (Mapbender, Edu) || || || || o || X || o || X || o ||
|-
! Michaela Schneeberger (MapGuideOS)|| || X || X || o || X || o || X || o ||
|-
! Frank Warmerdam (GDAL/OGR) || || || || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Perry Nacionales (MapServer, other) || x || o || || o || || o || o || o ||
|-
! Add your name (project) || || o || o || o || o || o || o || o ||
|-
! Responsible staff (X) || 1 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 2
|}
; Legend
:'''X''' = will be there all time
:'''x''' = will be there most of the time
:'''o''' = will be there during the breaks

[[Category:Events]]

User:Pnaciona

2006-08-11T06:52:08Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Pericles Nacionales */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

In addition to being an OSGeo member, Perry is currently (2006-2007) the vice chair of Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee of the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation for Earth Science Information Partners].

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -5 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_MapServer Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

User:Pnaciona

2006-07-31T16:22:01Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Pericles Nacionales */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

In addition to being an OSGeo member, Perry is currently (2006-2007) the vice chair of the Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) Committee of the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation for Earth Science Information Partners].

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -5 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_MapServer Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

User:Pnaciona

2006-07-10T16:38:29Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Materials */

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -5 hours]

= Contributions =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_MapServer Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

User:Pnaciona

2006-07-10T16:38:04Z

Wiki-Pnaciona:

= Pericles Nacionales =

Perry is a graduate student in Conservation Biology program at the [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php University of Minnesota - Twin Cities]. He is interested in finding ways to integrate geospatial technologies into community-based conservation processes. You can reach him at pnaciona at gee eye ess dot ee dee you. :) Or at naci0002 at umn dot edu.

Location: [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.9873167,-93.1851500&spn=0.01,0.01&t=k&hl=en 44.9873167, -93.1851500] 
Time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=219 {{CURRENTTIME}} -5 hours]

= Materials =

Here are some of the workshop and documentations materials that I've created and made available to the public.

* [http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/ MapServer Tutorial]
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_MapServer Getting Started With MapServer] - one of the many incarnations of this workshop.
** This one was developed for the [http://www.esipfed.org Federation of Earth Science Partners] (ESIP) 2006 summer meeting in Palisades, NY.
** [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/mapserver/ A version] of this workshop was last presented at the [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/ Open Source Geospatial 2005 Conference] (Third MapServer User Meeting) in Minneapolis in June 2005. Presented with Tyler Mitchell and Jeff McKenna.
** [http://www.mapgeek.org/workshop05/ Yet another version] was presented at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, October 2005. This workshop was presented by Steve Lime, David Fawcett and myself.

Geodata Committee Sixth Meeting

2006-06-29T15:13:26Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* People */

== Meeting Info ==

Chair: Jo Walsh
Minutes:
IRC: [irc://irc.freenode.net/osgeo #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org]
Date: 2006-Jun-30 (at least in the Americas and Europe)
Time: ([http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=29&year=2006&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 fixed time])

== People ==
* David Bitner
* Christopher Schmidt, http://crschmidt.net/
* Perry Nacionales

== Agenda ==

* What more is needed to get OSGeo's [[Geodata Repository]] running at Telascience
** User accounts to ask SAC for if needed
** Responsibilities for different data sets
* What kind of portal is needed - is wiki enough?
* Some type of browsing interface for the data neccesary:
** OpenLayers for Raster/Vector data? Easy to set up, might not be full featured enough for some people?
** Perhaps Ka-Map's tile.php as cached layer to feed both kamap and openlayers?
** Single-image screenshots for Raster data as overviews
** Vector dataset descriptions: What various attributes are/mean (better metadata)
** GeoRSS out to get updates, with bounding boxes -- need to get some way to display this data, does anything do GeoRSS rendering with bounding boxes right now?
* [http://www.freeearthfoundation.org Free Earth Foundation] working on distributed open geodata services targeted at WorldWind - how can we help?
* Feedback appreciated on metadata client
* ''Please feel free to add items here''

== Minutes ==

== Next Meeting ==

Main Page

2006-06-21T15:28:42Z

Wiki-Pnaciona:

== Introduction to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation Wiki ==
This is the community Wiki of the [http://www.osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. Please refer to the official web site at http://www.osgeo.org/ for stable documents and policies. This Wiki is the place where documents can be created collaboratively (ie. adoption processes, user hints, suggestions, committee notes, etc.). All web pages that are adopted as official documents will be moved to a CVS or SVN and subsequently appear at the [http://www.osgeo.org/ OSGeo] web site, which is the only official place for documents.

If you're wondering about how to dive in to OSGeo, what it's all about and how to get involved, see [[Getting Started]].

== OSGeo Structure ==

* [https://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html "About the Foundation"] (official officers, charter docs, etc)
* [[All Members]] -- add information about yourself
* [[History]]
* [[Roadmap]]
* [[Mailing Lists]]
* [[Library]]

== Committees and Working Groups ==
* [[Board of Directors]] (official) - [[Board tasks]]
* [[Website Committee]] (official) - [[WebComTODO|Current WebCom tasks]]
* [[Fundraising]] Committee (official)
* [[IncCom Wiki|Incubation Committee]] (official)
* [[Promotion and Visibility Committee]] (official)
* [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] (official; maybe needs a catchier name)
* [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] (official)
* [[SAC|System Administration Committee (SAC)]] (official)
* [[Certification Committee]] (not official) - ''initial ideas stage!''

For a list of scheduled or regularly scheduled meetings of the Board Committees and Working Groups refer to the [[Foundation Calendar]].

==Project Specific Wiki ==
The following are sub-sections of the wiki, specific to hosted open source projects at OSGeo.org:

* [[MapGuide Open Source]]
* [[Brasil | Brazilian OSGeo Chapter]]
* [[Japan | Japan OSGeo Chapter]]

== Current Proposals and Documents in Editing Process ==
* [[OSGeo Description]]
* [[Press Release Process]]
* [[Press Release Template]]
* [[Talk:Proposed_Press_Release | Translations of Press Release]]
* [[Like Minded Regional Organizations]]
* [[International Outreach]]
* [[Proposed Membership Rules]]
* [[Potential Nominees for Next Membership Election]]
* [[Distribution Special Interest Groups]]
* [[Response to RFI for US Gov GeoSpatial]]
* [[Committee Chair Guidelines]]
* [[Protocol for requesting letter of support]]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation Wikipedia entry]

== Project requests ==
* [[Volunteers Needed]]
* [[AJAX WebMapping Project Request]]
* [[Programming Languages Project]]
* [[Cpanel Installer]]
* [[Languages maps for webs]]
* [[Maps gallery]]
* [[Script Repository]]

== Project Tools ==
[[ OSGeo.org Project Tool FAQ]]

== Useful Notes ==
* [[Getting Started]] will help you to find about.
* [[How to Edit]] this Wiki.
* [[How to keep Track]] of what is going on in the Wiki.
* [[OSGEO:Protected page guidelines|Protected page guidelines]]

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[[OSGEO:About|Wiki Site Disclaimer]]

Shirts

2006-05-31T20:12:25Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Purchasers */

This page is about our shirt order for Where 2.0 (and beyond).

=== Design/Style ===

Using [http://ocs.landsend.com/ Lands' End].

We will be using fabric style "W", which gives lots of style choices for the order (Tees, etc). However, the style you select must support color=BLACK. The logo will be done up in OSGeo Green.

Two images (PDF and EPS) are stored in the VisCom file repository at osgeo.org.

Logo submitted morning of May 24th, work started 25th. Within the 3 week "rush" window, so the $400 rush fee applies.

=== Purchasers ===

'''Confirmed (Where purchase)'''

# Tyler Mitchell (tylermitchell-AT-shaw.ca) [060393-Large]
# Dave McIlhagga (dmcilhagga-AT-dmsolutions.ca) [large T]
# Jo Walsh (jo-AT-frot.org) ["small/girlie-sized"]
# mpg (mpg-AT-osgeo.org)
# Frank (warmerdam-AT-pobox.com) [large T (060393)]
# Gary Lang (gary.lang-AT-autodesk.com)
# Schuyler (schuyler-AT-nocat.net) [med or lg]
# Rich Gibson (rich.gibson-AT-gmail.com)
# Mark Lucas (mlucas17-AT-mac.com) [large T]
# Andrew Mackles (andrew.mackles-AT-autodesk.com) [075973 - medium]
# Sean Sternfeldt (sean.sternfeldt-AT-autodesk.com)
# Allan Doyle (adoyle-AT-eogeo.org) [large T]
# Chris Holmes (cholmes-AT-openplans.org)
# Arnulf Christl (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# Dylan Beaudette (dylan.beaudette-AT-gmail.com)
# David Enns (david.enns-AT-mapitout.com)
# John Graham (johng-AT-telascience.org) [Pima Polos xl xxl]
# Mikel Maron (mikel_maron-AT-yahoo.com) [xl T]
# Autodesk-1 (peter.moran-AT-autodesk.com) [T]
# Autodesk-2 (peter.moran-AT-autodesk.com) [T]
# Autodesk-3 (peter.moran-AT-autodesk.com) [T]
# Tim Schaub (tim-AT-commenspace.org) [Large T (060393)]
# Josh Livni (josh-AT_livniconsulting.com) [medium T (060393)]
# Jason Birch (jason.birch-AT-nanaimo.ca) [item #075973, size XXL] - Please give to Dave McIlhagga
# Matt Perry (perrygeo-AT-gmail.com) [item #060393, size L]

'''Confirmed (self-purchase)'''

# Daniel Morissette (dmorissette-AT-mapgears.com) [item #060393 (T), 1 size L, 2 size M (3 shirts total)]
# Tom Kralidis (tom.kralidis-AT-ec.gc.ca) [item #060393, size L]
# Markus Neteler (neteler-AT-osgeo.org) [size L]
# Jeff McKenna (jmckenna-AT-dmsolutions.ca) [size XXL]
# Perry Nacionales (pnaciona-AT-osgeo.org) [size S]
# Aaron Koning (aaronkoning-AT-gmail.com) [size XXL]
# Mateusz Loskot (mateusz-AT-loskot.net)
# Paulo Marcondes (paulomarcondes-AT-gmail.com) [item #060393 (T w/o pocket), XL]
# CCGIS-1 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# CCGIS-2 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# CCGIS-3 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# CCGIS-4 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# Mike Adair (mike.adair-AT-nrcan.gc.ca) [size XL]
# Dave Patton (dpatton-AT-confluence.org) [Item Number: 060393, size L]
# Ari Jolma (ari.jolma-AT-tkk.fi) [Pima Polo XL]
# Jeroen Ticheler (Jeroen-AT-Ticheler.net) [#060393, Men, size XL]
# Marco Lechner (marco.lechner@geographie.uni-freiburg.de) [#060393W-BLA-M]
# Steve Lime (steve.lime-AT-dnr.state.mn.us) [size L]
# David Bitner (david.bitner-AT-gmail.com) [size L]
# Bob Basques (bob.b-AT-gritechnologies.com) [#065529 size XL]
# Tom Burk (teb-AT-mallit.fr.umn.edu) [size XL]

'''VIP Give-Aways'''
''these will just be T-shirts''
# Nat T. ''(two votes - mpg + others)''
# Mike Liebhold ''(two votes - Schuyler, Tyler)''
# an extra for Nat T., for Jack D.? ''(might be dangerous!)''
# 10 for FOSSGIS organization team (the sponsors)
# ''other suggestions?''

=== Lands' End Account ===

* set up under mpg's name and address (Seattle, WA)
* username: osgeo
* password: ''(ask mpg)''

Contact info:
* work order #0637017W
* Jef Riley (fef.riley-AT-landsend.com)
* 800-535-3060 x8296

=== To Do ===

* logo now being set up, will confirm price
* get order date deadline
* get shirt orders collected
* set delivery to San Jose
* arrange payment via Arnulf

Shirts

2006-05-29T15:10:36Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Attendees */

This page is about our shirt order for Where 2.0 (and beyond).

=== Design/Style ===

Using [http://ocs.landsend.com/ Lands' End].

We will be using fabric style "W", which gives lots of style choices for the order (Tees, etc). However, the style you select must support color=BLACK. The logo will be done up in OSGeo Green.

Two images (PDF and EPS) are stored in the VisCom file repository at osgeo.org.

Logo submitted morning of May 24th, work started 25th. Within the 3 week "rush" window, so the $400 rush fee applies.

=== Attendees ===

'''Confirmed (Where purchase)'''

# Tyler Mitchell (tylermitchell-AT-shaw.ca)
# Dave McIlhagga (dmcilhagga-AT-dmsolutions.ca) [large T]
# Jo Walsh (jo-AT-frot.org) ["small/girlie-sized"]
# mpg (mpg-AT-osgeo.org)
# Frank (warmerdam-AT-pobox.com) [large T]
# Gary Lang (gary.lang-AT-autodesk.com)
# Schuyler (schuyler-AT-nocat.net) [med or lg]
# Rich Gibson (rich.gibson-AT-gmail.com)
# Mark Lucas (mlucas17-AT-mac.com) [large T]
# Andrew Mackles (andrew.mackles-AT-autodesk.com) [medium]
# Sean Sternfeldt (sean.sternfeldt-AT-autodesk.com)
# Allan Doyle (adoyle-AT-eogeo.org) [large T]
# Chris Holmes (cholmes-AT-openplans.org)
# Arnulf Christl (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# Dylan Beaudette (dylan.beaudette-AT-gmail.com)
# David Enns (david.enns-AT-mapitout.com)
# John Graham (johng-AT-telascience.org) [Pima Polos xl xxl]
# Mikel Maron (mikel_maron-AT-yahoo.com)
# Autodesk-1 (peter.moran-AT-autodesk.com) [T]
# Autodesk-2 (peter.moran-AT-autodesk.com) [T]
# Autodesk-3 (peter.moran-AT-autodesk.com) [T]

'''Confirmed (self-purchase)'''

# Daniel Morissette (dmorissette-AT-mapgears.com) [item #060393 (T), size L]
# Tom Kralidis (tom.kralidis-AT-ec.gc.ca) [size L]
# Markus Neteler (neteler-AT-osgeo.org) [size L]
# Jeff McKenna (jmckenna-AT-dmsolutions.ca) [size XXL]
# Perry Nacionales (pnaciona-AT-osgeo.org) [size S]
# Aaron Koning (aaronkoning-AT-gmail.com) [size XXL]
# Mateusz Loskot (mateusz-AT-loskot.net)
# Paulo Marcondes (paulomarcondes-AT-gmail.com) [item #060393 (T w/o pocket), XL]
# CCGIS-1 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# CCGIS-2 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# CCGIS-3 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# CCGIS-4 (arnulf.christl-AT-ccgis.de)
# Mike Adair (mike.adair-AT-nrcan.gc.ca) [size XL]

'''VIP Give-Aways'''
''these will just be T-shirts''
# Nat T. ''(two votes - mpg + others)''
# Mike Liebhold ''(two votes - Schuyler, Tyler)''
# an extra for Nat T., for Jack D.? ''(might be dangerous!)''
# 10 for FOSSGIS organization team (the sponsors)
# ''other suggestions?''

=== Lands' End Account ===

* set up under mpg's name and address (Seattle, WA)
* username: osgeo
* password: ''(ask mpg)''

Contact info:
* work order #0637017W
* Jef Riley (fef.riley-AT-landsend.com)
* 800-535-3060 x8296

=== To Do ===

* logo now being set up, will confirm price
* get order date deadline
* get shirt orders collected
* set delivery to San Jose
* arrange payment via Arnulf

Shirts

2006-05-27T15:00:54Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Attendees */

Public Geospatial Data Committee

2006-04-21T23:47:17Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Meeting Agenda and Minutes */

== Mission and Approach ==

See [[Public Geospatial Data Project]]

== Current Committee members ==

* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]] (chair)
* [[User:cmbarton|Michael Barton]]
* [[User:bitner|David Bitner (irc:bitner)]]
* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:Adoyle|Allan Doyle]]
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles (Perry) Nacionales]]
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:Arnulf_Christl|Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:putler|Dan Putler]]

== Committee Website and Discussion List ==

* http://geodata.osgeo.org
* discussion: [https://geodata.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList geodata@geodata.osgeo.org]

== Task ==

Add basic description and references to the http://geodata.osgeo.org/ site

== Documents ==

* [[Public Geospatial Data Project]]

== Meeting Agenda and Minutes ==

Meeting in IRC #osgeo channel (irc.freenode.net)

* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060322 | First meeting]], 1500 UTC 22 March, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=22&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])
* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060329 | Second Meeting]], 1500 UTC 29 March, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=29&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])
* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060406 | Third Meeting]], moved! 1600 UTC 6 April, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=06&year=2006&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])
* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060420 | Fourth Meeting]], 1600 UTC 20 April, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=20&year=2006&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=215 fixed time around the world])
* [[Geodata_Committee_Meeting_20060504 | Fifth Meeting]], 1600 UTC 4 May, 2006 ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=04&year=2006&hour=16 fixed time])

== Milestones ==

Milestones will be developed by the working groups.

== Working Groups ==

* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Licensing Working Group]]

== Outreach ==

* [http://www.publicgeodata.org/Open_Letter Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive] signed (3/2006)

=== Responses, References , Press ===
* http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71921 (Heise is a commercial enterprise publishing around IT. They operate a /.-like forum in German language

Geodata Metadata Requirements

2006-04-20T21:56:09Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Comments */

= Why this document exists =

One goal of the [[Public Geospatial Data Project]] is to offer, in the future, a repository of reusable public geographic data that can support open source geospatial software projects, both inside and outside the foundation.

One big requirement for a potential [[Geodata Repository]] is that there be a well-defined baseline for metadata. This can be seen as a quality assurance effort - data won't be accepted without a certain amount of metadata.

The [http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/|US Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata standard] emphasises conformance, but doesn't emphasise exchangeability / reusability. FDGC is standard for "Spatial Data Infrastucture" efforts, but doesn't have much of a "geospatial web" orientation.

There are some properties in addition to FGDC which it would be really useful to have - different distribution channels like WFS, bittorrent which have come into existence since FGDC was originally defined. For many elements, FGDC asks for full-text descriptions. More structure in descriptions would help with automating discovery or re-use.

This is a "straw-person" set of suggestions, and comment / additional references would be gratefully received.

= Draft Metadata model =

[http://frot.org/osgeo/geometadata.png Graph illustrating a basic metadata model] generated from an [http://frot.org/osgeo/geometadata.rdf RDF model] of what OSGeo Geodata Committee participants have identified as their core needs for metadata.

This picks an arbitrary namespace for an OWL schema that maps to most, if not all, of the FGDC mandatory properties and provides some extra ones.

[[Image:Graph0.png]]

== Data Set ==

=== title ===

Title of the data set. Corresponds to Dublin Core '''title'''

=== description ===

Text description of the data set. Corresponds to Dublin Core '''description''' element.

=== originator ===

== Person ==

A person responsible for publication of the data set - name and contact email address. These properties are well-defined in the [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] vocabulary.

== Organization ==

A organization responsible for publication of the data set - name and contact email address. These properties are well-defined in the [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] vocabulary.

== Spatial Data Organization ==

Vector, Raster or Point data, as described in FGDC.
(cf http://biology.usgs.gov/fgdc.metadata/version2/sdorg.htm )

=== datasource ===

URL from which the data can be downloaded via different protocols

==== WFS ====

For Vector data in GML

==== WMS ====

For Raster data described in GML

==== File at HTTP URL ====

==== BitTorrent ====

URL of bittorrent .torrent tracker file.

==== Other Web API ====

For example, OpenStreetmap API ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST )

== License information ==

Emphasis on public geographic data licenses: PGL, possible LPGL, Public Domain, Creative Commons-type licenses. These can be represented by URLs.

== Publication date ==

Corresponds to Dublin Core '''date''': ISO compliant date of publication.

== timespan ==

== Time Period ==

=== start date and end date ===

=== single date ===

=== extents ===

== Spatial Domain ==

A lot of this can be inferred either using GDAL/OGR or collected from a WMS/WFS GetCapabilities. It would be nice to bypass human error on collecting this kind of metadata.

=== bounding coordinates ===

FGDC specifies north, east, west, south bounding co-ordinates.
It doesn't specify a projection in which these should be described.
For reasons of simplicity it could make sense to require these be in WGS84 (EPSG:4236) - for the same reasons [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS] decided to mandate WGS84, rather than complicate matters by dictating that people also specify an SRS.

=== Projection (Raster) ===

Original projection of the data (reference to an

=== Scale (Vector) ===

== Taxonomy/Ontology ==

Currently undecided; would be good to refer this to current well-known thesauri for data themes.

= References =

== Geospatial ==

* [http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/index_html FGDC geospatial metadata model]

* [http://dcs.dlese.org/preview/admin/view.do?id=TEST-000-000-000-008 GEON geospatial metadata model]

* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Aboutus/standards/fgdc_to_dif.html DIF geospatial metadata model]

* [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service WFS]

== RDF ==

* [http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Resource Description Framework]

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/ RDF Primer]

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/ OWL Web Ontology Language Guide]

* [http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ontology/ Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology] OWL Ontologies at NASA

* [http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/ Dublin Core] metadata model for documents

* [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] metadata model for people and organisations

* [http://usefulinc.com/doap/ DOAP] metadata model for open source software projects and code repositories

== Notes ==

metadata isn't an easy task. The balance between completeness and people simply ignoring to generate it...

I wish I had had a prexisting plan of how to index and search for the data sets on extent and 'type' that we were adding

=== From [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]: ===

** Specifications of a data set
*** Creator
*** Date
*** License
*** Data Type
*** Topic
*** Spatial Extent
*** Coordinate System/Projection
*** Target Scale/Precision
*** Attribute Data

== See Also ==

* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Repository]]

= Comments =

* I would like to propose an additional element for the metadata model--data source (or lineage). If the data is derived from some other data, we should be able to backtrack and look at its parent/s. "Lineage" is a conditional element in FGDC but I think it's important enough that we should include it in our model. I suppose this can also be included in the Description but wouldn't it be nice to have this included as a required element? This is useful when checking for errors/consistency. -Perry

Geodata Metadata Requirements

2006-04-20T21:29:14Z

Wiki-Pnaciona: /* Comments */

= Why this document exists =

One goal of the [[Public Geospatial Data Project]] is to offer, in the future, a repository of reusable public geographic data that can support open source geospatial software projects, both inside and outside the foundation.

One big requirement for a potential [[Geodata Repository]] is that there be a well-defined baseline for metadata. This can be seen as a quality assurance effort - data won't be accepted without a certain amount of metadata.

The [http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/|US Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata standard] emphasises conformance, but doesn't emphasise exchangeability / reusability. FDGC is standard for "Spatial Data Infrastucture" efforts, but doesn't have much of a "geospatial web" orientation.

There are some properties in addition to FGDC which it would be really useful to have - different distribution channels like WFS, bittorrent which have come into existence since FGDC was originally defined. For many elements, FGDC asks for full-text descriptions. More structure in descriptions would help with automating discovery or re-use.

This is a "straw-person" set of suggestions, and comment / additional references would be gratefully received.

= Draft Metadata model =

[http://frot.org/osgeo/geometadata.png Graph illustrating a basic metadata model] generated from an [http://frot.org/osgeo/geometadata.rdf RDF model] of what OSGeo Geodata Committee participants have identified as their core needs for metadata.

This picks an arbitrary namespace for an OWL schema that maps to most, if not all, of the FGDC mandatory properties and provides some extra ones.

[[Image:Graph0.png]]

== Data Set ==

=== title ===

Title of the data set. Corresponds to Dublin Core '''title'''

=== description ===

Text description of the data set. Corresponds to Dublin Core '''description''' element.

=== originator ===

== Person ==

A person responsible for publication of the data set - name and contact email address. These properties are well-defined in the [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] vocabulary.

== Organization ==

A organization responsible for publication of the data set - name and contact email address. These properties are well-defined in the [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] vocabulary.

== Spatial Data Organization ==

Vector, Raster or Point data, as described in FGDC.
(cf http://biology.usgs.gov/fgdc.metadata/version2/sdorg.htm )

=== datasource ===

URL from which the data can be downloaded via different protocols

==== WFS ====

For Vector data in GML

==== WMS ====

For Raster data described in GML

==== File at HTTP URL ====

==== BitTorrent ====

URL of bittorrent .torrent tracker file.

==== Other Web API ====

For example, OpenStreetmap API ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST )

== License information ==

Emphasis on public geographic data licenses: PGL, possible LPGL, Public Domain, Creative Commons-type licenses. These can be represented by URLs.

== Publication date ==

Corresponds to Dublin Core '''date''': ISO compliant date of publication.

== timespan ==

== Time Period ==

=== start date and end date ===

=== single date ===

=== extents ===

== Spatial Domain ==

A lot of this can be inferred either using GDAL/OGR or collected from a WMS/WFS GetCapabilities. It would be nice to bypass human error on collecting this kind of metadata.

=== bounding coordinates ===

FGDC specifies north, east, west, south bounding co-ordinates.
It doesn't specify a projection in which these should be described.
For reasons of simplicity it could make sense to require these be in WGS84 (EPSG:4236) - for the same reasons [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS] decided to mandate WGS84, rather than complicate matters by dictating that people also specify an SRS.

=== Projection (Raster) ===

Original projection of the data (reference to an

=== Scale (Vector) ===

== Taxonomy/Ontology ==

Currently undecided; would be good to refer this to current well-known thesauri for data themes.

= References =

== Geospatial ==

* [http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/index_html FGDC geospatial metadata model]

* [http://dcs.dlese.org/preview/admin/view.do?id=TEST-000-000-000-008 GEON geospatial metadata model]

* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Aboutus/standards/fgdc_to_dif.html DIF geospatial metadata model]

* [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service WFS]

== RDF ==

* [http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Resource Description Framework]

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/ RDF Primer]

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/ OWL Web Ontology Language Guide]

* [http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ontology/ Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology] OWL Ontologies at NASA

* [http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/ Dublin Core] metadata model for documents

* [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] metadata model for people and organisations

* [http://usefulinc.com/doap/ DOAP] metadata model for open source software projects and code repositories

== Notes ==

metadata isn't an easy task. The balance between completeness and people simply ignoring to generate it...

I wish I had had a prexisting plan of how to index and search for the data sets on extent and 'type' that we were adding

=== From [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]: ===

** Specifications of a data set
*** Creator
*** Date
*** License
*** Data Type
*** Topic
*** Spatial Extent
*** Coordinate System/Projection
*** Target Scale/Precision
*** Attribute Data

== See Also ==

* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Repository]]

= Comments =

* I would like to propose an additional element for the metadata model--data source (or lineage). If the data is derived from some other data, we should be able to backtrack and look at its parents. "Lineage" is a conditional element in FGDC but I think it's important enough that we should include it in our model. -Perry

Geodata Metadata Requirements

2006-04-20T21:28:54Z

Wiki-Pnaciona:

= Why this document exists =

One goal of the [[Public Geospatial Data Project]] is to offer, in the future, a repository of reusable public geographic data that can support open source geospatial software projects, both inside and outside the foundation.

One big requirement for a potential [[Geodata Repository]] is that there be a well-defined baseline for metadata. This can be seen as a quality assurance effort - data won't be accepted without a certain amount of metadata.

The [http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/|US Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata standard] emphasises conformance, but doesn't emphasise exchangeability / reusability. FDGC is standard for "Spatial Data Infrastucture" efforts, but doesn't have much of a "geospatial web" orientation.

There are some properties in addition to FGDC which it would be really useful to have - different distribution channels like WFS, bittorrent which have come into existence since FGDC was originally defined. For many elements, FGDC asks for full-text descriptions. More structure in descriptions would help with automating discovery or re-use.

This is a "straw-person" set of suggestions, and comment / additional references would be gratefully received.

= Draft Metadata model =

[http://frot.org/osgeo/geometadata.png Graph illustrating a basic metadata model] generated from an [http://frot.org/osgeo/geometadata.rdf RDF model] of what OSGeo Geodata Committee participants have identified as their core needs for metadata.

This picks an arbitrary namespace for an OWL schema that maps to most, if not all, of the FGDC mandatory properties and provides some extra ones.

[[Image:Graph0.png]]

== Data Set ==

=== title ===

Title of the data set. Corresponds to Dublin Core '''title'''

=== description ===

Text description of the data set. Corresponds to Dublin Core '''description''' element.

=== originator ===

== Person ==

A person responsible for publication of the data set - name and contact email address. These properties are well-defined in the [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] vocabulary.

== Organization ==

A organization responsible for publication of the data set - name and contact email address. These properties are well-defined in the [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] vocabulary.

== Spatial Data Organization ==

Vector, Raster or Point data, as described in FGDC.
(cf http://biology.usgs.gov/fgdc.metadata/version2/sdorg.htm )

=== datasource ===

URL from which the data can be downloaded via different protocols

==== WFS ====

For Vector data in GML

==== WMS ====

For Raster data described in GML

==== File at HTTP URL ====

==== BitTorrent ====

URL of bittorrent .torrent tracker file.

==== Other Web API ====

For example, OpenStreetmap API ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST )

== License information ==

Emphasis on public geographic data licenses: PGL, possible LPGL, Public Domain, Creative Commons-type licenses. These can be represented by URLs.

== Publication date ==

Corresponds to Dublin Core '''date''': ISO compliant date of publication.

== timespan ==

== Time Period ==

=== start date and end date ===

=== single date ===

=== extents ===

== Spatial Domain ==

A lot of this can be inferred either using GDAL/OGR or collected from a WMS/WFS GetCapabilities. It would be nice to bypass human error on collecting this kind of metadata.

=== bounding coordinates ===

FGDC specifies north, east, west, south bounding co-ordinates.
It doesn't specify a projection in which these should be described.
For reasons of simplicity it could make sense to require these be in WGS84 (EPSG:4236) - for the same reasons [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS] decided to mandate WGS84, rather than complicate matters by dictating that people also specify an SRS.

=== Projection (Raster) ===

Original projection of the data (reference to an

=== Scale (Vector) ===

== Taxonomy/Ontology ==

Currently undecided; would be good to refer this to current well-known thesauri for data themes.

= References =

== Geospatial ==

* [http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/index_html FGDC geospatial metadata model]

* [http://dcs.dlese.org/preview/admin/view.do?id=TEST-000-000-000-008 GEON geospatial metadata model]

* [http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Aboutus/standards/fgdc_to_dif.html DIF geospatial metadata model]

* [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service WFS]

== RDF ==

* [http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Resource Description Framework]

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/ RDF Primer]

* [http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/ OWL Web Ontology Language Guide]

* [http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ontology/ Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology] OWL Ontologies at NASA

* [http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/ Dublin Core] metadata model for documents

* [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ FOAF] metadata model for people and organisations

* [http://usefulinc.com/doap/ DOAP] metadata model for open source software projects and code repositories

== Notes ==

metadata isn't an easy task. The balance between completeness and people simply ignoring to generate it...

I wish I had had a prexisting plan of how to index and search for the data sets on extent and 'type' that we were adding

=== From [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]: ===

** Specifications of a data set
*** Creator
*** Date
*** License
*** Data Type
*** Topic
*** Spatial Extent
*** Coordinate System/Projection
*** Target Scale/Precision
*** Attribute Data

== See Also ==

* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
* [[Geodata Repository]]

= Comments =

* I would like to propose an additional element for the metadata model--data source (or lineage). If the data is derived from some other data, we should be able to backtrack and look at its parents. "Lineage" is a conditional element in FGDC but I think it's important enough that we should include it in our model.

Foundation Calendar

2006-04-20T16:53:16Z

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The following are the known meeting times of Foundation groups

* [[Board of Directors]] - Every Friday 2:00pm EST (GMT+5), 11:00am EST, 8:00am PST via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net and Skype
* [[IncCom Wiki|Incubation Committee]] - Every Monday via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net 19:00 UTC, 2:00pm EST, 11:00am PST
* [[Website Committee]] - Every Wednesday via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net 19:00 UTC 2:00 EST, 11:00am PST
* [[Fundraising]] Committee -
* [[IncCom Wiki|Incubation Committee]] -
* [[Promotion and Visibility Committee]] -
* [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] - Every Thursday via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net [http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 1700 UTC]
* [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] -
* [[Certification Committee]] (not official) -

[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html?year=2006&month=3&day=24&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=224 e Fixed Time World Clock can help tell your users when this event will happen in their local time zone.]

Foundation Calendar

2006-04-20T16:49:59Z

Wiki-Pnaciona:

The following are the known meeting times of Foundation groups

* [[Board of Directors]] - Every Friday 2:00pm EST (GMT+5), 11:00am EST, 8:00am PST via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net and Skype
* [[IncCom Wiki|Incubation Committee]] - Every Monday via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net 19:00 UTC, 2:00pm EST, 11:00am PST
* [[Website Committee]] - Every Wednesday via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net 19:00 UTC 2:00 EST, 11:00am PST
* [[Fundraising]] Committee -
* [[IncCom Wiki|Incubation Committee]] -
* [[Promotion and Visibility Committee]] -
* [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] - Every Thursday via IRC #osgeo in irc.freenode.net [http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&day=20&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 1700 UTC]
* [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] -
* [[Certification Committee]] (not official) -

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