I would love to be there but my travel budget is extremely limited this year :( I will post a couple of slides I have related to the OGC and interoperability.
A On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > 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 >> >
