Hey Martin, On 2/17/13 6:08 AM, "Martin Desruisseaux" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello Chris, Adam and all > >Le 15/02/13 17:44, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) a écrit : >> Guys, I need to prepare a short talk on Apache SIS for this NOAA meetup >>next week. >> >> I'm going to do it over Skype. Would love any input on slides or >>material you'd like me to include. > >I can send you by email some LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org slides that I >have. Or maybe there is some space that we can use somewhere for this >kind of material? Those slides would surely need to be adapted however. That would be great! I've created: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sis/presentations/NOAA-Meetup-Feb21-2013 For this! > > >Le 16/02/13 21:42, Adam Estrada a écrit : >> I think that it is important to note that what is currently being >>worked on not only helps to promote interoperability, its helping to >>define it by adhering so rigorously to ISO and OGC standards. Your's and >>Martin's involvement with the OGC GeoAPI working group is huge for the >>geospatial community because you can help to promote the use of these >>standards across all communities. I really believe that the key takeaway >>should resemble something like this. > >I also believe that our efforts in participating to standards are a very >important aspect. GeoAPI is one aspect, but hopefully would not be the >only one (after all, we still don't know if GeoAPI will succeed). Of course it will succeed, I mean c'mon Martin, we're involved! And you're leading it. How would it not succeed? :) > I >think that participation to the meteo-oceanography group is also >important and seems close to the concern of many SIS members. Actually, >I would love to present SIS as a library having a focus on science :-). ++50 to focusing on science. > >One real use case that I have see is crossing data from physicians with >data from oceanographers, for a study of cholera propagation. Because >physicians and oceanographers are two quite different communities, >crossing those data without standards is uneasy. The standards required >here are more complex than the usual WMS (we need quality and >uncertainties estimations, etc.). +1 > >An other aspect that we could said is that SIS benefits from the >experience gained from the previous projects: we have learn what worked >and what have been bad idea. Every class that we port to SIS is an >opportunity to revisit it and sometime to simplify it. When a feature >seems overly complex, we have the possibility to search in the previous >projects how this feature was used. This help us to determine how it can >be simplified. +1 and also the opportunity to look here at Apache to see if there is cross fertilization with other Apache software to implement it too, getting those guys vested and interested in what we are doing. > >An other reason for revisiting classes one-by-one is that the Java >landscape as changed: JavaFX and Android need to be keep in mind, which >imply for example to try to isolate Java2D dependencies in dedicated >classes. Some factories may be replaced by JSR-330 (dependency >injection). Support for supplementary Unicode characters become worthy, >since they now include geographic symbols. OSGi support became a goal, >etc. +1 > > >Le 17/02/13 00:45, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) a écrit : >> Guys: another thing to note. Fast Feather tracks just opened up at >> ApacheCon NA 2013. It's an opportunity for a short, but meaningful talk: >> >> http://s.apache.org/BqE >> >> Maybe we should do a Fast Feather on SIS? Any interest? > >Do we have someone who can be present? I will be there, as will Paul Ramirez , from the Apache SIS community. That said, I will be giving a bunch of other presentations and am also a known face around Apache and it would be nice for someone else, e.g., you Martin or Adam to do it, but the timeline may be too short to pull that off. Cheers, Chris > > Martin >
